An email to Health Minister Shane Reti from Rob Campbell, the outspoken former chairman of Te Whatu Ora - Health NZ, was published on the NZ Herald website yesterday. He started by saying Reti’s public comments about wanting to apply real focus to...
Roger Handford The front-page item quoting Dr Murry Cave on erosion told us what we already know and went nowhere with any proposed strategy. I take issue with what was said because Dr Cave omitted to mention the two very large and related elephants...
Sunday is a day “to rev up your excitement”. East Coast Museum of Technology president Harrison Hill is looking forward to the museum’s Live Day and warmly welcomes the public to attend. “Live Day offers a unique blend of history, hands-on...
Nearly half of a pod of dolphins had died while the rest were badly injured by the time they were stranded a second time near Māhia, making euthanisation a “welfare decision”, says marine mammal welfare trust Project Jonah. The pod of around 40...
The latest extended forecasts indicate a wet week ahead, suggesting we make the most of the next few days. The MetService outlook for the weekend is for fine weather but a change to southeasterly conditions on Monday will bring rain. At this stage...
New Zealanders are now able to subscribe to receive notifications to their mobile phone when MetService issues a Red Warning for severe weather or if there is an extreme fire danger risk. The partnership with Fire and Emergency New Zealand will help...
Awatere Bridge on East Cape Road has been fully repaired and reopened to all traffic almost a year after it was badly damaged during Cyclone Gabrielle. It was one of 10 bridges in the region that suffered significant structural issues that required...
The number of rental houses available in Gisborne is not keeping up with “skyrocketing” demand and is resulting in higher rent, new data shows. Trade Me property sales director Gavin Lloyd says New Zealand rental prices have recorded an all-time...
A Gisborne seafood company is warning efforts to restrict fishing in the Hauraki Gulf could have “significant” unintended and negative consequences on the East Coast. The Hauraki Gulf/Tīkapa Moana Marine Protection Bill seeks to contribute to...
This season has been a tough one for Eastern North Island (CRA3) fishers. Bad weather, lower than average catch numbers and declining cray population generally, lower than average port prices, and now - in the middle of it all – a toxic algal...
The cruise ship season rolls along this weekend with two callers. The Silver Whisper will anchor in the bay for the day tomorrow with 375 passengers on board, then the 96-passenger National Geographic Orion will dock at the port on Sunday. The usual...
Gisborne District Council is not trying to throw a bicycle down everybody’s throat. So says Mayor Rehette Stoltz, who along with councillors, defended their draft mode shift plan and draft active travel strategy at their first meeting of 2024...
A new exhibition featuring watercolour paintings by Claire Kizlink has given the artist a new lease on life as she approaches her ninetieth birthday. A selection of her work, which has been done over a number of years, is now hanging at the...
It’s time to warm up the voice box and channel your inner “Queen”. Gisborne theatre group Centre Stage will soon be running auditions for their 2024 production of We Will Rock You. We Will Rock You is a jukebox musical based on the songs of...
Gisborne rock band Lazy Fifty will play their farewell show at The Dome this Saturday before Adrian Athy heads to England with his wife/band manager Kerry to pursue music there. The gig, with opening act UNI-FI, will also be a chance for the two...
The annual Full Moon Party returns to Smash Palace this Saturday, January 27. Bringing the community together with local DJs and performers, this very special event has been held in Gisborne every summer since 2017. The outdoor/indoor event features...
Build-a-Band Smash Palace every Thursday. Bring your friends along for a friendly jam session. Free, starts at 7pm. Karaoke Expect a fun evening as patrons belt out the tunes. Share your talent with friends at Breakers’ Jandal Bar every Friday...
Secret agents and murderous assassins seem to lurk in increasingly mundane places. Remember The Accountant with Ben Affleck? Or The Tax Collector with Shia LaBeouf? Or more recently, how about The Bricklayer with Adam Eckhardt? You probably don’t...
Odeon Multiplex The Iron Claw Fact-based story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who make history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s. Stars Zac Efron. The Color Purple Film adaptation of the stage...
by John Sherratt English three-goaler Ollie Jones was named Player of the Tournament at Bushmere polo ground over the weekend, and had a hand in another prestigious award. Laura Gavin was awarded the Guy Kirkpatrick Memorial Trophy for horsemanship...
The entry line-up for the North Island stock car championships at the Gisborne Speedway Club keeps getting bigger and bigger. The entry list as of yesterday is 1NZ Kyle Rowe, 3NZ Cody Lockett, 4B Courtney Hatton, 7G Shane Bunning, 7H Hamish Whyte...
Electrinet Park Judy would have been impressed. But she also might have fired out a couple of “bloody burglars” barbs after the Gisborne Thistle AFC Golf Day produced some of the best scoring in its history on Sunday. Good weather, a short...
The first full council meeting of the year is being held today, with councillors regathering — no doubt having received lots of helpful advice over the summer break — to consider the Three-Year Plan 2024-2027 draft estimates and branding as well...
Bob Hughes Mother Earth and Aotearoa have a limited, fixed quantity of finite resources which don’t regenerate once they are used. Minerals and fossil fuels — coal, oil and gas — are finite resources that people of the future won’t have...
Re: Intrusion. Around 16,500 households took part in the 2023 post-enumeration survey. It was a follow-up to the last Census and is a standard procedure to measure the completeness of the count. It appears that your correspondent on 23rd January was...
Who is it at GDC that has a fetish for cycleways? We need more cycleways like a hole in the head. How about concentrating on the state of the roads, the footpaths — both city and suburbs — the filthy state of the main street and last but not...
New Zealand surfing legend Maz Quinn has recovered from a broken back suffered in an accident at Māhia. It has been a challenging and life-changing journey and he is keen to share that story to help others. Maz Quinn is sitting on his board out...
Prospective learners in Tairāwhiti have an opportunity to view the wide selection of programmes offered by EIT | Te Pūkenga at today’s information and enrolment day. The day is open to anyone who is interested in studying at EIT | Te Pūkeng...
The 2024 grape harvest starts in about a month and the district’s growers are hoping for kind weather up to then. “Like most crops around the district, everything looks a bit light in terms of yield at this stage,” said Gisborne Winegrowers...
Health NZ/Te Whatu Ora is reporting 86 active cases of Covid-19 in Tairāwhiti in the week ending midnight, Sunday. That compares to 104 cases during the previous week. Tairāwhiti’s total deaths remain at 41. There have been 26,120 cases in the...
A 55-year-old man being sentenced for his 23rd to 26th driver licensing offences has been given a big “break” by a judge who congratulated him for finally getting a licence. Soloman King Jan Edwards, who now has a restricted driver’s licence...
A woman stabbed her partner in the back with a kitchen knife during an argument that began in a supermarket carpark. Alisia Taylor, 28, whose case was transferred to Gisborne District Court from Levin, was hoping to get home detention for that...
Loneliness and social isolation in older adults are being tackled through a new project from the Tairāwhiti Positive Ageing Trust and the Sunshine Service. Judy Livingston, spokesperson for the Tairāwhiti Positive Ageing Trust, said people could...
Rhythm and Vines has raised $27,000 for the Gisborne Mayoral Flood Relief following their sold-out 21st festival, which brought more than 24,000 revellers to the region. Rhythm and Vines head of marketing (and 21-year R&V veteran) Kyle Bell...