Good news on the tropical cyclone front — the latest outlook is for a normal cyclone season. The agencies responsible for analysing cyclone potential in the Pacific have just issued an updated outlook for the season ahead. The August 2023...
Iwi have joined with the forestry industry and government agencies to launch a new collective to improve forestry culture, hauora and health and safety for kaimahi in Te Tairāwhiti. The Forestry Community Health and Safety Alliance, known as Te...
Two local wāhine-led businesses have joined forces to create a new event for women here. Empower You is promoting the experience for women to come together and “re-energise their wairua”. The event is set to host more than 200 attendees for...
Business owner feeling the pinch of some of the highest rates in the North Island
The Poverty Bay Horticultural Society's annual Spring Show featured prize-winning displays of daffodils and camellias. Robin Simmons, of Te Puke, came to judge the blooms. Verlie Shepherd took home the trophy for champion daffodil
A man charged for threatening Gisborne Work and Income staff has now been through three lawyers, saying he doesn’t have faith in any of them. He also claims his human rights have been breached. Joseph Hone Tamihana, 30, fisheries worker, appeared...
Cyclone-hit households in Hawke’s Bay and Tairāwhiti will be getting the break many are in need of thanks to the collective generosity of the Rotorua community. A total of 100 getaway packages are being distributed by Manaaki Rotorua | Be Our...
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Shirley Hyland is enjoying a life well lived. The 93-and-a-half-year-old, who in 2001 was awarded the Queen’s Service Medal for services to equestrian, still lives at the Bushmere property where she and late husband Trevor raised their three...
Laura Watson has a dream . . . and it is one she is doing her darndest to see achieved in her lifetime. The project manager for the Waimatā Restoration Catchment Project grew up on the river that meanders 30 kilometres from the headwaters in the...
Eric Sandtmann has come a long way since he sneakily planted spuds in his mum’s rose garden to see what he could grow. These days he juggles a full-time job in horticulture for the Dods family with his growing Knock Knock Organics business. Knock...
Each year Daffodil Day holds a strong and very colourful presence in Tairāwhiti, but there’s another big effort going on just outside the town boundaries that makes a massive contribution to the local coffers. This year marks the 25th anniversary...
The East Coast Farming Expo is back for 2024. Event organiser Sue Wilson has announced the new dates — February 21-22, 2024 — and while a venue is yet to be announced everything else is well under way. The popular expo was cancelled this year...
The farmers at Tiniroto are a hardy lot. When the Doneraille Park Bridge (Ruakaka No. 4 Bridge) was washed away in Cyclone Gabrielle, nurse Sally Officer kayaked across the river to ensure she made it to Gisborne Hospital for work, but after the late...
The excitement in the voices of Henry and Nicky Hansen is palpable as they bubble over with the latest news from Wisewool – the company they created to drive a renaissance for New Zealand’s flagging wool industry. The latest public recognition...
It is a real family affair at Kenhardt Angus at Nuhaka. While Grant and Sue Crawshaw are very much in charge, the breeding programme and other major decisions are a round table affair with son Patrick and daughter Nancy. This is a stud known for its...
The Government kicked off the final sitting week of Parliament on Monday by setting out a plan to save $4 billion over the next four years, with some departments told to reduce spending by 1-2 percent and further savings to come from reducing...
Clive Bibby For those interested in voter response to information that influences their decisions in the polling booth, one thing is clear — the truth will out and when it does the reaction will be merciless if voters find out they have previously...
The Government appears to have withdrawn the $45 million of funding approved for the proposed barge port at Wharekahika (“East Cape Marine Project”). Shane Jones squeezed this funding approval out of the taxpayer before he was booted out in...
Chris Hipkins’ ban on working with Winston Peters and NZ First post-election may produce some public bravado in the Labour Party rank and file, yet the absolute tone of that proclamation could be sending shivers of fear up the spines of some...
The lack of outrage to ACT’s latest policy from the Mayor and our Maaori Ward councillors renders all as complicit and having been brought to heel. Ka Taka Te Kapa. Harawira Craig Pearless
"This one meant a lot” was the short but sweet Facebook message from Gisborne’s Tayler Reid after his podium performance in the opening race of the NZ$2.1 million Super League Triathlon Championship. Reid, 26, placed third in Race 1 of the fifth...
Gisborne’s Oska Smith shone for the New Zealand Junior Black Fins and the New Zealand Pathway teams in the Battle of the Tasman held on the Gold Coast at the weekend. Smith, of the Waikanae club, was too hot to handle for the Aussies in beach...
Victories for the senior hockey and football teams in Napier got Gisborne Boys’ High School off to a good start in the New Zealand Secondary Schools Winter Tournament Week. The hockey team, coached by Wade Manson, with Aidan Scragg his assistant...
Tairāwhiti-based medicinal cannabis company Rua Bioscience Limited has posted an expected loss for the financial year as it continues expansion plans. Over the financial year, Rua signed supply and distribution agreements targeting growth markets...
The “Cockies Golf Day” was not really a money-making event the organisers said but it still managed to raise nearly $7100 for the Eastland Helicopter Rescue Trust. Organiser Tom Lane said because times were tight the idea was to make the day...
A man facing 20 charges under the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993, remains in custody awaiting a jury trial. Joshua Luke Ripia, 27, previously pleaded not guilty and elected a trial by jury on 18 charges of possessing...
East Coast and Ikaroa-Rawhiti will both be key electorates to watch on election night. That is the unsurprising call from political commentators at The Spinoff, the New Zealand online pop culture, politics and social issues magazine. There are now...
The Tairawhiti Multicultural Council (TMC) this week launched a video playlist to aid English as a second language speakers in disaster preparedness. The project was inspired by a pandemic video encouraging vaccination among migrant communities. The...
Wairoa is not anti-forestry, Mayor Craig Little says, after the Wairoa District Council’s high-profile legal win over forest owners. In what has been recognised as a decision of high public interest, the Court of Appeal this week dismissed the...
The successful completion of the 18-month project to demolish and rebuild Wharf 7 at Eastland Port has been proudly announced by the port and contractors McConnell Dowell. The construction specialists built the 255 metre deck-on-pile wharf which has...
Business and Professional Women Gisborne (BPW) are gearing up for an engaging evening on September 5 with both Ikaroa Rawhiti candidates and four main party candidates for the East Coast now confirmed to attend. Labour Party Ikaroa Rāwhiti Cushl...
Gisborne Intermediate band The Destroyers took first prize in the regional Rockshop Bandquest competition at the weekend, captivating both the judges and audience with their performance. Bob Smiler, the band’s drummer, said he was shocked they’d...
The Government’s green investment bank will lend $25 million to Gisborne-based Eastland Generation to help fund its Bay of Plenty geothermal projects.