A controversial proposal to make some cyclone-hit homeowners pay tens of thousands of dollars to demolish their own homes has been axed by Hastings District.
Ruth Spittle ran into Hawke’s Bay Today editor Chris Hyde almost immediately after escaping the floodwaters that surged through her Pākōwhai property on.
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