Wairoa getting another half a million dollars for clean up

Meanwhile, two reviews will put the magnifying glass on the Hawke's Bay Regional Council's controversial decision not to open the river mouth sooner - which locals say is the reason their homes are ruined, Lauren Crimp reports.

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