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...
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...