Alex Cochrane Navigating through challenges posed by high interest rates, severe weather events, the pandemic and market changes can be daunting for our community. Now, more than ever, it is crucial to review your banking arrangements and ensure you...
Māori businesses in Tairāwhiti that work with whenua are looking at ways to do things differently, says BDO Gisborne managing partner Kylee Potae. Ms Potae has a specialist focus in whenua Māori, and a personal passion for strategic planning...
A Gisborne car dealership is celebrating 40 years of selling Nissans. Enterprise Nissan is Gisborne’s oldest locally owned new-vehicle franchisee. Business founder Fred Lewis always had a relationship with cars before setting up one of the...
A space and technology company founded by an East Coast entrepreneur is now eyeing expansion into India, after already opening in New Zealand and Australia. StardustMe provides space memorial flights to celebrate life. Ashes are launched into orbit...
A pioneer in the field of pultrusion manufacturing technology, Gisborne-based Pultron Composites Ltd has dedicated over four decades to revolutionising structural materials with composites and last month was recognised as “exporter of the year”...
An inventive “evergreen fund” concept is backing Maori entrepreneurs in the Tolaga Bay area with start-up loans and mentoring. Right now, Tolaga Bay Innovation is seeking eight entrepreneurial individuals with a focus on service businesses, to...
Bouncing out of a loss-making year and a share value slump, medicinal cannabis company Rua Bioscience has started the new financial year with two new international deals and a vision to expand Tairawhiti residents’ access to subsidised medical...
Tonight, tomorrow and this Friday night are all about having fun by going hard. The club league finals at the Gisborne YMCA are set for Saturday — the men’s open grade at 4pm, the ladies’ championship 5.30pm, and men’s premier grand final at...
Gisborne Mayor Rehette Stoltz moved to Tairāwhiti from South Africa over 20 years ago and during that time here she has been on a journey of learning te reo Māori. As part of Te Wiki o te Reo Māori, kaupapa Māori reporter Matai O’Connor caught...
The Whinray Scenic Reserve at Motu is home to native brown kiwi which have been returned from the brink thanks to conservation efforts over the past 30 years, but the area is also home to other native creatures who are also benefiting from...
True to its name, chain of hearts is a trailing vine plant with heart-shaped, variegated leaves. It is an easy-care, super-tough, hardy, hanging plant that can be used to fill a space situated up high in a corner or on a shelf. Oh, be still my...
Elegantly simple, big on flavour and strong on comfort, these family favourites with step-by-step instructions make an ideal introduction to Korean cooking at home. Like all Koreans, I will always have kimchi and cooked white rice in my...
Still in the South Island, Mike Yardley continues his journey and heads for Westport . . . Sizing up a spring roadie on the West Coast? Just south of Westport, Cape Foulwind Lighthouse stands sentinel-like on the headland – a totem to so much...
Summer is going to be the season of the great recovery operation, not least in this region, but a recent report raises doubts about the ability of New Zealand to achieve even modest goals for improving our infrastructure. The latest Civil...
Gwynne Dyer This week’s real news is the discovery of life on another planet. As Cambridge University’s Nikku Madhusudhan said in the first sentence of his report: “The search for habitable environments and biomarkers in exoplanetary...
Good on ya Merv Goodley — reliable in your responding, but head counts at meetings don’t make consensus. I can’t remember when Rocket Lab last had a public meeting. With unfettered access and a BAU (business as usual) “nothing to see here”...
Passing through overnight on Thursday, I happened to see the electronic billboard advertisement for Jersey Boys. As a Four Seasons fan I was immediately interested, so I jumped online and grabbed a ticket. My mind was blown by the level of...
Jack Marshall The definition of insanity is said to be repeating the same action and expecting a different outcome. So, when it comes to housing, there’s a solid case for locking up New Zealand for being clinically insane. We build the same...
Waikato-based Gisborne player Kelsey Teneti tasted rugby success straight out of high school after being contracted to the Black Ferns Sevens in 2021. However it not all been plain sailing since then — going from the highs of national selection...
It was pedals of gold for Gisborne BMX rider Asher Nepia-Anderson at the AIMS Games in Tauranga last week. Ilminster Intermediate student Asher was among the more than 11,500 students from over 370 schools who competed in 25 sports during the...
Poverty Bay East Coast representative top 8 team travelled to Wellington to contest Division 2 of a new National Inter-Provincial Championships. Games of fours, singles and pairs were contested throughout the weekend, starting with one session of...
GISBORNE CLUB DARTS ASSOCIATION INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS 180s: H Eyles (4), A Taukamo-Pohio (2NZEF TAO Vikings); L Eyles (RSA Gunz); K Tamihere (RSA Stallions); M Jones (Roseland); S Hohipa (Cossie Done & Dusted); H Pohatu (2NZEF 2NZ3). Highest...
Hearty Ngāti is a term denoting pride, community and a lust for life. And in Game 3 at the YMCA on Monday night, the Gisborne Basketball Association’s flagship ladies’ club Ngāti Porou signed off on round-robin play with a 75-24 win over...
The 2023 round-robin for men’s premier club league basketball is done and dusted and will long be remembered for having gone out with a bang. The biggest bang at the YMCA on Tuesday saw SE Systems topple competition leaders Green Bean 69-67 in...
Black clouds, rain and touches of hail passed over the district late yesterday afternoon, after a 55-day dry spell. Met Service’s forecast was right on-target - "Showers, some heavy, clearing evening. Chance of a squally thunderstorm with hail...
Police are running inquiries into three more gang-related shootings in the city, subsequent to the shots fired at houses in Newton Street in Kaiti and in Mangapapa Road earlier this month. The first drive-by shootings occurred on September 6 and 7...
The final financial damages wrought on Gisborne properties by Cyclone Gabrielle here has been tallied and will cost insurance companies a whopping $86.18 million in payouts. Figures released by the Insurance Council of New Zealand yesterday...
Biosecurity New Zealand has been working closely with cruise lines to ensure their vessels arrive into Eastland Port with clean hulls as the busy summer season approaches. The summer cruise season starts on November 13 here with the arrival of the...
by Neil Reid, Hawke’s Bay Today As builders and family continue to repair Sylvia Bell’s flood-hammered home, the widow has just one wish; to be back in the house she has lived in for the past 50 years by Christmas. Her house was among many badly...
Tāmati Coffey defended his East Coast candidacy after losing three years ago in Waiariki, Jordan Walker said “tax the rich”, Leighton Walker said she was not a politician, knew nothing about politics, but had people in her heart, and Dan...
All the signs point to spring having arrived -—particularly the budding and flowering of the yellow-blossomed kōwhai tree. In Māori, spring is kōanga, and it is of significance that both kōwhai and kōanga share the word kō. Kō is the Māori...
“It’s a blessing.” That’s how Connie Kara of Iaopa Road in Te Karaka feels about having her uninsured home fully renovated, thanks to funding from iwi and government agencies. Ms Kara lives there with 11 others in a home that holds many...
Retirement village residents and their families will have a chance to learn more about proposed changes to how retirement villages are governed. Retirement Village Residents Association president Brian Peat will be speaking on the subject at two...
Students of Rāngai, a Tairāwhiti-based media company and school, are rapt to have secured a commitment to broadcast their very own show, “Pūkeko-Man”, on Whakaata Māori. The show is the brainchild of Rāngai students Te Aruhe Fox, Te Aroh...