Craig Little

Wairoa Mayor Craig Little speaks to Ellie Jay about Kiwirail reopening line to Napier taking hundreds of logging trucks off the roads. Audio

The Wairoa mayor says licensing facilities must be brought back to the town.

Learner drivers in Wairoa have been taking to the roads illegally because of the obstacles they face in getting a licence.

Learner drivers in small towns and country areas are taking to the roads illegally because the tests to get their licence have been banned outside of bigger main centres.

Teenagers often have their… Audio

The government has announced a multi-million dollar investment to upgrade under-pressure water systems across the country, but there's a catch.

A $760 million package will kick-start urgent work to… Audio

It's the time of the week where we speak to one of the people leading our local communities. This week we head to Wairoa - where the Mayor is Craig Little Audio

Drivers are being warned to check for trains since the Wairoa-to-Napier has been reopened for the first time since significant storm damage saw the route mothballed in 2012.

The line has been… Audio

Hawke's Bay hapū are at loggerheads with Wairoa District Council over the closure of a bridge which forces them to carry bodies nearly a kilometre on foot for burial at their urupā.

Patangata Bridge… Audio

Warnings a modern day gold rush is underway as productive farm land is sold to make room for lucrative forestry. Farmers and community leaders in Wairoa have become the latest group to raise concerns… Audio

Farmers and community leaders in Wairoa have become the latest group to raise concerns over the sale of farms to make room for lucrative forestry. Locals estimate around 10,000 hectares of the… Audio

House prices in some small regional towns in the North Island have jumped by up to 30 per cent in the year to February. Kawerau, Wairoa and Ruapehu are all rising fast in the latest QV figures. But… Audio

A community in northern Hawke's Bay is in shock after vandals destroyed 20 or so headstones at a small cemetery. Kaye Wesley posted a Facebook video of her visit to the Raupunga urupa on the weekend… Audio

Decades of failed attempts to clean up two contaminated lakes in Hawke's Bay is being given new hope following a 3 point 5 million dollar funding boost for a new project to clean them up. Lake Tutira… Audio

Wairoa District Council ratepayers are tens of thousands of dollars out of pocket due to broken sluice gates, which have caused silt to flow from the Waihi Dam into local rivers. Video, Audio