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Homeless need help to restore themselves
More and more children and adults suffer diminishing health and social outcomes.

My spring gardening gamble sparks up
Spring is in the air so it is time to take to the garden ... sort of.

Service makes it best to shop local
Thompson's Suits proves service is key to layoal customers.

Pauline Doyle and Ken Keys: Our water is not for sale
We need to conserve water rather than thinking we can waste water because it rains so much

Denis O'Reilly: Please think again on 'well e drome'
Proposal to extend Pettigrew Green Arena seen as more a "well e drome" than velodrome.

More money needed for prevention and rehabilitation
The vulnerable need more help, not more institutionalisation

Skating back in Napier's history
Napier skating celebrates 70 years which began on concrete on Marine Parade.

Sharleen Baird: How we treat the poor is what counts
The poor are always with us - it's how we treat them that counts

Jerry Flay: No such thing as a free lunch
Labour has tried to buy votes with a cheap bribe.

Bruce Bisset: Holding politics to account
Politicians working alone instead of for the good of our community

Editorial: Hear from the candidates
Hawke's Bay Today has three Meet the Candidates debates planned for September.

Xan Harding: Let's all pay a bit for water
I'm happy to pay a bit for the water I use and the security of knowing it's available.

Read needs to break out of cocoon to earn stripes
He's a nice guy who puts his body on the line but how good an ABs captain is Kieran Read?

Amelia McQueen: 'Mountains to the Sea' approach needed
The river should be considered as a whole ecosystem from the mountains to the sea.

Editorial: Foss will look back on good times and bad
History will judge how Craig Foss' successor compares to him.

Editorial: Time to put velodrome project behind us
It is clear that Sport NZ was not as supportive of the project as it was made out to be

Underfunded, underdoctored & overstretched
A run-down public system can be used as an excuse for more expensive private systems.

Rex Graham: Ridiculous to suggest councillors complicit
It is ridiculous to suggest that our councillors were complicit in this social activism.

The old climate debate heats up
The debate about climate change is sure starting to warm up.

Tracking down housing policies
Nearly all political parties support New Zealanders' right to live in a healthy home.

Editorial: A step forward for beauty contestants
Napier's Harlem-Cruz Atarangi Ihaia crowned Miss Universe NZ.

Gordon Anderson: Looking through glass ceilings
The buck now stops at the top, accountability is now more visible.

Mike Williams: Turei sinks as Ardern rides wave
Labour may be headed for an unexpectedly good night on September 23

Michael Fowler: Windsor Park ever evolving
Park's journey through names leads from The Park to name we know today.

Health and sport project a great opportunity for two cities
With region-wide community health and sport facility, sky's limit