After widespread backlash over a weak initial text, COP28 delegates worked through the night in Dubai on Wednesday before Government ministers from 198 countries reached a historic deal in which the world has, for the first time, agreed to move away...
Maryanne Spurdle, Maxim Institute researcher Two fates haunt news publishers concerned for their viability. One is that a reporter fabricates content, and they find they’re in the business of publishing fiction. The other is that powerful...
Clive Bibby When replying to Shamubeel Eaqub’s excellent advice on how we might achieve much-needed growth with or without Government assistance, l am mindful of all the submissions made to this and previous councils which have been ignored by...
Gisborne’s housing market last month recorded both the nation’s biggest year-on-year drop and the biggest increase in listings. Latest data from the Real Estate Institute (REINZ) shows Gisborne’s median price decreased by 15.2 percent year on...
Six contracting crews have been working to clear the beaches at Tolaga Bay and Tokomaru Bay. Kuru Contracting Ltd has had three crews at Tolaga Bay, clearing the estimated 21,000 cubic metres of wood debris. They cart it to a site in Paroa Road...
The latest Health NZ Te Whatu Ora figures show 44 Gisborne residents have Covid-19 as at midnight on Sunday. That takes the total number of cases in Tairāwhiti since the start of the pandemic in March 2020 to 25,749, and includes 39 deaths. In the...
A man on a court order to stay away from children for seven years has been jailed for breaching it four times. Jeremiah Cole Gobbie, 47, was sentenced on Tuesday in Gisborne District Court to 15 months imprisonment after pleading guilty to four...
Beef + Lamb New Zealand formally opened its first office in Gisborne on Wednesday afternooon, “to be in the community with our farmers”, said chief executive Sam McIvor. It is situated on the fifth floor of the former Post Office building in...
Every year the Gisborne District Council honours those people it calls “the beating heart of the community”. These good sorts, unsung heroes and community characters are acknowledged with a civic award, for their substantial voluntary service...
East Coast conservationist Graeme Atkins has been named a semifinalist in the 2024 Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year Awards. Mr Atkins (Ngāti Porou and Rongomaiwahine) is one of 10 people named in the New Zealand Environmental Hero of the Year Te...
Firefighters were called to the end of Kaiti Beach Road on Wednesday night after a small cooking fire a man had lit in trees and scrub got out of hand. Fire and Emergency NZ sent crews there at around 8pm. A Senior Station Officer said they could...
A two month-long safety warning about poisonous shellfish here remains in place as toxin levels continue to worsen. New Zealand Food Safety deputy director-general Vincent Arbuckle yesterday said their advice to not collect shellfish in affected...
Community grants of nearly $900,000 were approved in the final funding round of the year from Trust Tairāwhiti. The biggest recipient was Gisborne Speedway Club, which will receive up to $267,000. The money is going towards a new toilet block at...
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. But instead of a traditional Northern Hemisphere scene featuring fake snow and Santa’s sleigh, think the usually big man in red in a Christmas-themed matching shirt and shorts, sitting beside...
A High Court judge says the iwi managers of Te Urewera and the Crown acted unlawfully in a decision that led to the demolition of more than half a network of backcountry huts. Twenty-nine of an overall 53 huts in Te Urewera were burned down last...
Adel Salmanzadeh came to Aotearoa from Iran as a Baha’i refugee youth in 1989. He met his Maori Samoan wife Maxine at the refugee camp in Mangere, Auckland, and they married in 1998. His two children Carmel and Haami share his passion and talent...
A concert of the traditional nine lessons and carols for Christmas will feature a galaxy of local readers, a 14-piece band and a 25-voice choir, at St Andrew’s Church on Sunday evening. The ancient telling of the Christmas story will be recounted...
Frocks on Fridays has some exciting events coming up starting with a polo match and family barbecue tomorrow at the Poverty Bay Polo Club. Frocks on Fridays (FOF) founder Jo McLean said the event would have a “day at the races” kind of vibe and...
Homegrown sportswoman and Black Ferns rugby player Renee Holmes was in town on Monday meeting a team of a different sort. Holmes toured the Lytton Road packhouse of First Fresh NZ Ltd and met the staff there and in the field. She visited local...
Poverty Bay paceman Connor Starck fires down a delivery in a 50-overs game against Waikato Valley on Day 3 of the Emerging Rangatahi Northern Districts under-19 cricket tournament at Harry Barker Reserve. Starck took 1-35 from six overs as the...
Jacobus Du Preez is officially a match-winner. The Campion College No. 11 batsman cleared the infield with a hefty hoick to give the school side their second win of the cricket season. Du Preez (8 not out) split George Gillies and Lukas Fry with...
Both winning teams went through the tournament unbeaten when Poverty Bay Bowling Club members held their championship open fours. Jan Powell (skip), Lesley Seymour (director), Joy Davis (two) and Erin Sutherland (lead) won the women's competition...
Poverty Bay Mark Karalus and Phil Mickelson share two things in common. Both are left-handers. Both have shot sub-60 — albeit Mickelson’s was off the stick (59 in winning the Grand Slam of Golf at Poipu Beach, Hawaii, in November 2004) while...
The first poll since the coalition Government was sworn in at the end of last month identifies two significant gainers, New Zealand First and Te Pāti Māori, two losers in Act and the Green Party, and numbers that would deliver power to the same...
Re: Government considering different funding models to build new hospitals, Dec 9 RNZ story. This is what I’ve been saying. It looks like our new Government wishes to privatise our public services in partnership and co-governance structures and...
When considering the Gaza war, aside from the grief and inhumanity of it all, it is interesting to hear the commentary on Al Jazeera from the political experts and previous UN attachés, as they pontificate on blame and offer solutions as to how the...
The new Kainga Ora homes planned for Ruatorea look good — especially having roof eaves, which are important for comfortable living. The computer-generated picture shows the roof spouting downpipes going down into the ground; hopefully this will...
Police have charged two men following multiple commercial burglaries in the city last month. Officers executed search warrants on Tuesday at two residential addresses which resulted in the recovery of some of the stolen items, including property...
The number of people employed in the region’s forestry contracting industry has halved in size in just two and a half years, a new report reveals. The situation was laid out at the end of November, in a report from Tairāwhiti CARE, the Regional...
A woman who posted sexually explicit pictures of her partner’s ex-girlfriend to several online sites has received an electronically-monitored sentence after failing to show much remorse. Last week in Gisborne District Court, Judge Turitea Bolstad...
I would like to thank the jury, the judge and the court for removing a paedophile from our community that everyone should be protected from.” Those were the words from a young woman as her 82-year-old step-grandfather was jailed this week for...
It is amazing how many potatoes can be grown in a 2-litre bucket.” That was the standard comment at the weigh-in for the Alzheimers Gisborne Tairāwhiti Spud in a Bucket competition at Bunnings Warehouse on Saturday. The Tipene whānau had the...
After a three-month break, space company Rocket Lab has confirmed a launch is good to go from Māhia, tomorrow. It will be the company’s first launch since a failed mission in September. The failure led to the company suspending launch operations...
Lytton High School student Jeremy Auckram is this year’s recipient of the Tourism Operators of Tairāwhiti Gisborne Scholarship. The scholarship will go towards funding Jeremy’s studies at the New Zealand School of Tourism in Auckland. He hopes...