The hunt is on to recruit a team of people from Tairāwhiti to help rebuild the region’s cyclone-damaged roads and bridges. The Transport Rebuild East Coast (TREC) Alliance was set up in July to plan, organise and deliver much of the recovery and...
Clarke Judd was busy on a digger clearing driftwood at Kaiti Beach on Wednesday when he was lucky enough to sight a small pod of orcas. “They were in pretty shallow water,” Mr Judd said. The four orcas (also called killer whales) were heading...
Music, dance and storytelling brought history to life in Ki Tua o Te Ārai — a production performed by students of Te Whānau Reo Māori o Manutūkē at War Memorial Theatre in Gisborne this week. Their experience in kapa haka gave the performers...
Government funding of $1.5 million for a Trust Tairāwhiti/Ngāti Porou project of establishing a new i-Site has taken tourism operators by surprise. The funding, announced by Prime Minister Chris Hipkins in Gisborne on Wednesday, is also aimed at...
Gisborne golfer Dan Collier made a loud and clear statement in the opening round of qualifying at the Poverty Bay Men’s Open today. Electrinet Park member Collier fired 3-under 69 in summer-like weather on the Awapuni Links course. It was the low...
The Government has approved $15 million to raise about 200 homes at risk of future flooding.
Work starts on Monday on the long-awaited 1000-year bridge to connect Tītīrangi/Kaiti Hill and Puhi Kai Iti/Cook Landing site. The $3.83 million project comprises an open-air pedestrian bridge, which will be 6.3 metres above Kaiti Beach Road. It...
Police have an arson inquiry under way after fire gutted the former Oxbrow service station and garage in Whakato Road at Manutuke on Monday afternoon. Fire and Emergency New Zealand (FENZ) crews from Gisborne and Manutuke were called to the scene at...
Space company Rocket Lab’s latest launch from Mahia ended in a rare failure yesterday. “Following lift-off from Launch Complex 1, the rocket successfully completed a first stage burn and stage separation as planned before an issue was...
Labour has “the best candidates” and will win local electorates East Coast and Ikaroa-Rāwhiti in the upcoming general election, says Prime Minister Chris Hipkins. The PM made that call while in Gisborne yesterday to make announcements about the...
Five incidents of seals being hurt or killed by dogs on Wainui Beach have occurred over the past week. In the wake of this “huge increase” in attacks, Gisborne District Council is reminding dog owners not to allow their pets anywhere near seals...
Contractors were working yesterday to clear logs stuck in the mud under the three city bridges. The fine weather has meant Roberts Tree Surgeons could get on to the job, and they expect to wrap it up tomorrow. A post on the Gisborne District...
The battle for Ikaroa-Rawhiti heats up tonight when Labour defector and Te Pāti Māori candidate Meka Whaitiri and her Labour replacement Cushla Tangaere-Manuel debate live on Whakaata Māori (formerly Maori TV). Whakaata Māori will also release...
Today’s top temperature could be a record-breaker for Gisborne . . . and a reminder to start thinking about sunscreen. The week’s run of sunny, clear weather has seen temperatures well above the average for the time of year. For today...
A master plan for the ongoing management of a popular Gisborne beach was a late withdrawal at a council meeting last week, with no explanation given to the public. But Gisborne District Council has since revealed the reason for its removal —...
This year the Southern Cochlear Implant Programme (SCIP) commemorates 20 years of providing hearing to recipients here and Tairāwhiti kaumātua Stan Pardoe shares his story to help celebrate. Stan is an orator and the guardian of his people’s...
A wide selection of programmes offered by EIT | Te Pūkenga will be on display at information and enrolment days in Tairāwhiti, Wairoa and Ruatoria next month. The day is open to anyone who is interested in studying at EIT | Te Pūkenga and who...
Poverty Bay Anne Witters is the Poverty Bay Women’s Open champion for the fourth time — 25 years after her first Open victory. The nine-time senior women’s club champion defeated 2023 senior club champion Lynne Holmberg on the 18th hole of the...
Former Tairāwhiti cricketer Kerry-Anne Tomlinson has been named as one of two inaugural coaches of the Central Districts Māori Wāhine squad to play in Heretaunga Hastings next month. Hawke’s Bay and Central Hinds rep Tomlinson (Te...
Gisborne Thistle have completed their season in football’s Central Federation League by climbing off the bottom of the points table, without kicking a ball. Scheduled opponents Palmerston North United (PNU) and Napier City Rovers Reserves...
Dallin Watene-Zelezniak’s high-flying season has reached a new height with his selection to this year’s NRL Players’ Dream Team. The team is made up of the best 13 players by their positions, as voted on by players, with Watene-Zelezniak one...
This is the week that the best of the rest — the non-finalists — bow out of the local basketball leagues with a boom. And being salt of the earth GBA clubs, those that fronted up brought the 300 in attendance to their feet and hoot with relish...
East Coast voters have a record number of candidates to choose from this election, but the reality is that one of the two largest parties will provide the winner. When nominations closed last week. five new candidates joined the contest from those...
Clive Bibby Immediately following the end of World War 2, British voters made a huge call about the future direction of their country. On the one hand they had the option of returning the Conservative PM Winston Churchill — arguably the most...
On Friday, The Gisborne Herald ran a piece with the tagline: RNZ’s First Up reporter Leonard Powell went on a road trip from Whakatāne around the East Cape to test the tone of the East Coast’s towns. Mr Powell stopped at exactly how many towns?...
People can expect “full fire” when indie-rock trio KITA comes to Smash Palace to play their Love Lives Here Tour next month. Singer and guitarist Nikita Tu-Bryant can’t wait to get back to Te Tairāwhiti which holds a special place in her...
Former long-time Gisborne resident Vic Furlan has laughed, cried and shaken his head in wonder at what life has thrown at him over his 86 years. He is now the subject of New Zealand writer Graeme Wilson’s first book, VICTORY: The Vic Furlan Story...
Wrights Wines is hosting a Community Organic Day at their vineyard in Manutuke on Sunday, as part of their Organic Wine Week celebrations. There will be a chance to get your hands dirty planting flax at the vineyard followed by the creation of...
The Shepherdess Muster is coming back to Te Tairāwhiti, from February 16-18, 2024. The immersive festival will see a full programme of creatives, speakers and artists from around Aotearoa descend on the tiny village of Motu — an hour from...
Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival kicks off at the end of September with stage production UPU coming to the War Memorial Theatre on October 6 and 7. The world of Oceania is not small. From the energetic volcanoes of O’ahu to the southern reaches of...
This Week ■ Karaoke Friday September 22 at Breakers’ Jandal Bar. ■ Jam Solo - Mike Pomana Friday September 22. Gisborne-Tairawhiti RSA. ■ UNI-FI, Talismer and Afterlight Friday September 22, Smash Palace. Tauranga bands Afterlight and...
Dome Cinema ■ The Innocent Comedy crime film in which a prison theatre teacher marries an inmate in a union that is not well received by the teacher’s adult son, who is suspicious of his stepfather’s intentions. In French, with subtitles. ■...
Get close . . . that was the intention of all who stood on the par-3 sixth tee during the Emerre and Hathaway Poverty Bay Women’s Open held on the Awapuni Links course this week. Anne Witters and Poverty Bay clubmate Lynne Holmberg watch the...
Tairāwhiti paddlers showed they were world class when they won gold and silver medals at the waka ama long-distance world championships in Samoa. The Aotearoa New Zealand crew of Hinekahukura Brooking, Marnie Toloa, Kaiarahi Brooking-Haapu...