Doug Laing

Hastings, New Zealand

Senior Reporter at Hawke's Bay Today

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Te Kūiti’s Jack Fagan joins NZ shearing tour across UK and France

1 week ago | nzherald.co.nz | Doug Laing

Te Kūiti’s Jack Fagan will join New Zealand Shears open champion Toa Henderson for the Wools of New Zealand Shearing tour, instead of Mark Grainger. There are at least six shearing test matches in the tour across four countries in the UK and France this year. It will be Henderson’s first time in the black singlet and silver fern, earning his place with his win in Te Kūiti on March 29. It is Fagan’s third test series in a row, after a UK tour last year and a transtasman series in the summer.
Music to their ears as album pushed to managers and promoters

1 week ago | nzherald.co.nz | Doug Laing

Some have experience before large crowds. Pollett previously performed in front of over 20,000 warming the Mission Concert crowd up for Rod Stewart in April 2023. Danica Bryant did Mission Concerts for Elton John in 2020 and Robbie Williams in November 2023, and Liberty Fowler performed on the Sublime with Rome underbill at Black Barn on January 1. The three are solo acts who each went to Napier Girls’ High School and cut their teeth on the Smokefreerockquest.
Napier’s alleged perfume thieves apprehended

1 week ago | nzherald.co.nz | Doug Laing

Two teenagers have been apprehended in relation to one of two early-morning front-entrance burglaries of shops in Napier’s Emerson St shopping centre. Both targeting perfumes and deodorant, the burglaries were at specialist store Elaines on Emerson about 1.20am, on Saturday, April 5 and at Life Pharmacy about 2.40am on April 7.
New arrival stars for the Hawke’s Bay Hawks

1 week ago | nzherald.co.nz | Doug Laing

Dan Grida in his Bay Hawks debut last week in Tauranga, when he scored 30 points in a win over Whai. Photo / BBallfilmsnzThe Big Barrel Hawks’ second echelon has shown its immediate worth in Sal’s NBL basketball with former Nelson Giant Dan Grida scoring 63 points in just two matches since he, two Illawarra Hawks teammates, and coach Sam Gruggen arrived from Australia two weeks ago. Dan Grida in his Bay Hawks debut last week in Tauranga, when he scored 30 points in a win over Whai.
Absolutely outstanding in their field, and butchery

1 week ago | nzherald.co.nz | Doug Laing

Winners (from left) James and Nicky Gaddum and Robert Haselsteiner in the Matangi Boutique Butchery in Hastings, the front window of their now champion paddock-to-retail operation. Photo / Supplied. It’s been a stellar couple of years for Hawke’s Bay boutique paddock-to-butchery operation Matangi as it continues the bounce-back from Cyclone Gabrielle by winning the Supreme Champion Award at the 2025 national Outstanding Food Producer Awards.
Racks are back on Hawke’s Bay public buses

1 week ago | nzherald.co.nz | Doug Laing

Bike racks are returning to the fronts of public buses in Hawke’s Bay following five months in exile since the sudden removal last November. Getting the country back on rack - front-loading bike racks are back on Hawke's Bay buses from Monday. Photo / HBRC. The racks, enabling cyclists to hook-up their bikes while they take the more comfortable and leisurely way, will be reinstated today, said Hawke’s Bay Regional Transport Committee chair Martin Williams.
Joseph Parker invited to celebrate HB boxing club's anniversary

1 week ago | nzherald.co.nz | Doug Laing

Heavyweight boxing champion Joseph Parker could be back in Hawke’s Bay this year, depending on plans for his next bout - possibly for the world title. A 21-year-old Joseph Parker doing the rounds in Hastings as a fledgling professional. Now 33, his next date in Hawke's Bay depends what's happening in the ring with World title fights. Photo / NZME.
Hawke’s Bay clubs’ running rugby - 63 tries in four games

1 week ago | nzherald.co.nz | Doug Laing

A lop-sided state is emerging in Hawke’s Bay rugby’s top grade after 411 points were scored, including 63 tries, in just five Nash Cup games on Saturday. Strong-running Old Boys Marist wing Sunia Ragede charges upfield in his side's 44-5 win over Waipukurau club Central in Napier. Photo / Emma Rodger.
On The Up: Truckie who stopped Napier traffic to get woman and her mobility scooter across road dubbed a ‘high-vis hero’ on social media

2 weeks ago | nzherald.co.nz | Doug Laing

“Knight in high-vis” Leon Thompson reckons the unexpected acclaim he’s received after a social media post praising him for stopping his truck and other traffic to help a woman and her mobility scooter to cross a busy Taradale road is “crazy”. The Waste Management driver appreciates it, but was quite bemused on Wednesday when he learned of the local Facebook group post praising the “gentleman” involved in the shining-armour moment in Gloucester St about 12.40pm the previous day.
Kahurānaki station sale: Bid to buy back maunga starts with climbing it at the end of 10-day hīkoi

2 weeks ago | nzherald.co.nz | Doug Laing

“Health and safety are the key,” he said soon after his own descent. “We’ve got to take care of all the health and safety issues for a group going up there.”In keeping with the safety kaupapa, the trek is keeping away from the highways as much as possible, and going from mountain to mountain and marae to marae. It’s part of the motivation stirred by iwi member Kelly-Aroha Huata after hearing last month that the station, including the mountain, is for sale.