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...
Air Ruatoria’s Mahanga Maru came to the rescue on Monday afternoon to help two key ingredients of a bridal party get to a wedding in Auckland after their flight from Gisborne was cancelled. The bridegroom and his best man made it to Auckland in...
A Coastguard crew from Napier rescued three people from a disabled 12-metre pleasure craft off Mahia Peninsula late on Tuesday night. Police and the Coastguard were called at about 10pm on Tuesday to assist the people on board the Gitan II. In the...
Lightning from Tuesday night’s severe thunderstorm struck a house with a family inside and narrowly missed a car with people in it. Firefighters were called to the house in Riverside Road — near the Waimata Cheese factory— that was hit by...
An investigation into the death of a Gisborne dog at the hands of council staff has detailed the sad state the animal was returned to its owners in. On September 22, family pet Sarge was euthanised by Gisborne District Council staff after being...
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Evolution Theatre’s newest recruits, the Rising Stars, will showcase their talent this weekend when they take to the stage to perform two special Christmas plays. Rising Stars is the acting programme for youth which helps keen young actors to...
Hugh Grant learned some years ago that if a filmmaker doesn’t make something from the heart, it shows. The films that work best, and are most loved, he’s found, are the ones that the directors really meant. It applied to his romantic comedies...
DOME CINEMA Calypte Torren Martyn and Aiyana Powell had a combined sailing experience of a few days when they borrowed a 35-foot yacht, Calypte, and left east Thailand early in 2022, bound for eastern Indonesia. They learned to sail as they went...
A fast-moving cold front collided with hot air over the East Coast on Tuesday night, resulting in one of the most spectacular lightning storms seen in recent years. The whole sky and landscape was lit up by huge flashes of sheet and forked...
‘Hort Day Gisborne’ went off a treat yesterday morning when a wide variety of the district’s horticulturists took part in The Evergreen Foundation’s cyclone recovery support event. More than 60 local growers and others, about 120 people in...
Cruise ship Silver Muse’s visit to Gisborne on Monday made it six from six for the cruise ship season so far. The moderate-sized ship went to anchor in the bay at around 9.15am. “Tendering started straight away and we would have had 350...
MOTORSPORT The smell of burning rubber wouldn’t appeal to some but 15-year-old Gisborne teen Corbyn Wilson wants to make it an international career. Twelve months to the day the Gisborne Boys’ High School student went to his first Drift Academy...