British and eligible Irish citizens who have been living here for more than 15 years are now eligible to vote in the upcoming UK general election. A new law means that a previous time limit has been removed. Brits living overseas can go online to...
A shed and its contents on a property in Makauri Grove near King Road at Makauri were destroyed in a fire on Tuesday night. Fire and Emergency NZ sent four appliances, including tankers, to the forestry contractors property at around 6.30pm that...
An elderly woman was critically injured when the car she was driving collided with a goods truck at the corner of State Highway 2 and Back Ormond Road on Tuesday. Emergency services were called to the crash at around 4.45pm. Firefighters assisted in...
A small group of protesters converged outside the Mangatu Blocks head office in Childers Road yesterday and today to raise awareness of what they allege are bad investments, mismanagement of the whenua and waterways, and ignoring concerns from those...
Sentencing has been postponed for a drink-driver who seriously injured a woman when he ploughed into a house while trying to evade police. Alec Thoreson Thomson, 37, turned up at Gisborne District Court as scheduled on Tuesday for his sentencing but...
Beverley McMillan can still recall the words of father Donald as she approached the aisle for her wedding to Arnold Hutchins on January 25, 1964. “Do you really want to go through with this?” her father asked. She did and 60 years later the...
Gisborne Speedway Club superstock racer Jamie Hamilton took out the prestigious World 240s Superstock Championship at the Paradise Valley Raceway in his car 9G in Rotorua on Saturday night. The Gisborne club was well represented in the 140-car...
Surf lifeguards throughout the country are gearing up for the Eastern Regional Championships (ERCs) at Mt Maunganui this weekend. The eastern region spans the Coromandel, Bay of Plenty and Gisborne areas but the championships attract competitors...
It’s time for Australasia’s top young riders to shine at the Trans-Tasman Teams’ Challenge — one of the highlights of the Larsen Sawmilling Equestrian Championships in Gisborne this weekend. The Kiwis have named a solid team in Emma Gillies...
Tairāwhiti paddlers dominated the 250-metre races that traditionally close the Waka Ama Sprint Nationals at Lake Karāpiro. Kaiarahi Toa had just won the final teams race of the champs — the premier women’s W6 500 metres — for Self Storage...
National’s leadership is trying to address some of the concerns within Māoridom over the direction the coalition Government is taking with regard to Māori and the Treaty of Waitangi, with Māori Development Minister Tama Potaka telling RNZ on...
by Patrick Cooper Had Hezbollah attacked Galilee in northern Israel whilst Hamas terrorists were raping and murdering civilians on October 7, the IDF (Israel Defence Forces) would have been hard-pressed to prevent a far greater massacre. Patrick...
Re Tairāwhiti Moves and the council’s plans to tinker with our city roading network, I have two questions. Who asked for Gisborne to be made New Zealand’s cycling centre? Who asked council and its staff to keep coming up with unrequested ideas...
In yesterday’s editorial you cite a group of people who have, to use your words, “a slightly warped view of the Treaty”. After the recent hui at Ngaruawahia, I asked myself what I thought the “principles of the Treaty” were and the answer...
A shoplifter has left court elated and promising never to return after a judge praised him for his voluntary work culling pests and relieved him of any sentence. Michael Brian Hanly, 47, left the dock in Gisborne District Court yesterday with...
The remains of a pod of 45 dolphins euthanised in Hawke’s Bay will be studied to try to learn more about their stranding. The pod of 44 false killer whales and one bottlenose dolphin stranded at Taylor’s Bay near Māhia on Sunday, then stranded...
When Georgia Colvin turned up at the Eastland Helicopter Rescue Trust hangar with a Christmas chocolate cake, she was already mates with members of the Trust Tairāwhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter team. “My sister Sophie works for St John and she...
Gisborne residents were among those across the North Island who saw a large fireball soaring across the sky on Sunday — presumed to be a meteor burning up. The fireball was seen from Auckland, Waikato, Gisborne and Hawke’s Bay. Some of those who...
A warning to those who own a Mazda 2. The popular car, also known as the Mazda Demio, is the vehicle that was most often reported stolen in Gisborne last year, according to figures released by AMI Insurance. Their insurance records show the Mazda 2...
A woman and a teenage boy on a paddleboard got into difficulties in strong offshore winds at Waikanae yesterday and ended up being rescued near the harbour entrance. The incident unfolded shortly before 11.30am. “They were blown over against...
Government ‘deliberately misreading relationship between iwi Māori and Crown’. A Māori lawyer who spoke at the national hui at Ngāruawāhia at the weekend says there needs to be a clarification about Māori rights under the Treaty, not...
Gisborne District Council has assessed the state of the Bloomfield Road-Bushmere Road intersection and roads leading up to it and recognises there has been deterioration. Improvements have been scheduled in the council’s road maintenance...
The Ūawa Horse Sports Club day was held at Ūawa Domain on Saturday. The club was delighted with the turnout and how the day went. Riders of all ages and experience took part and the club is looking forward to holding more fun events. More to...
Growing list of spots suffering storm erosion damage.
The fervour and emotion shown at Saturday’s hui called by King Tūheitia threatens to develop into a continuing challenge for the Government with the Treaty of Waitangi at its centre. More than 10,000 people packed into the Tūrangawaewae Marae to...
2024 could well be a defining year for Western civilisation. We have elections in two major Western countries — the USA and UK. Indeed, half the world’s population go to the polls this year. We have ongoing armed conflicts in Ukraine and Gaz...
It seems that too much foul water has “flowed under the bridge” for there to be a single-state solution to restoring peace between Israelis and Palistinians. It seems that a two-state solution would possibly work, but definitely not if the two...
Re: Big chill hits US; Freezing US weather . . . “struggled to cope with the arctic weather”, Jan 19 stories. Despite the decades of climate change warnings, deniers continue to ignore the obvious. Facts have never been more important. As the...
Kaiarahi Toa led the Horouta medal charge on the last day of the Waka Ama Sprint Nationals at Lake Karāpiro on Saturday. Women’s teams bearing the Kaiarahi Toa name raced in the premier, master (40-plus) and senior master (50-plus) divisions and...
The landscape of Poverty Bay club cricket changed at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday. On Day 2 of Round 1 in the DJ Barry Cup two-day Premier Grade championship, Breakers Horouta Te Waka beat Gisborne Boys' High School first 11 outright and...
Poverty Bay Strikers had four great days in Hawke's Bay last week. The Andrew Hogarth-coached Bay, competing in the Hawke’s Bay Tournaments Year 7 White B Division, beat Porirua Tigers by two wickets in a thriller on Monday morning and then...
Another sub-tropical low prompted an Orange Heavy Rain Warning from MetService but moved through without hanging around to cause problems. MetService’s earlier rain watch notice changed to an orange-coded warning on Saturday, saying residents in...
Firefighters were called to a home in Bloomfield Road at Matawhero at around midnight Saturday after the residents smelt smoke in the house. The fire crews found a fire going in the ceiling void. Fire and Emergency NZ sent two appliances and two...
A man has been accused of luring an East Coast boy away from his parents to have sex with him and other related offences, including making an objectionable video of the youngster. The 38-year-old accused, who cannot currently be named, appeared...