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.
This time of the year, a lot of people take great delight in spotting what they think is our giant native toetoe grass flowering along roadsides, beaches and various other parts of the landscape. Travellers and holidaymakers share photos online of...
Will the Rugby World Cup have an impact on the coming national election? That is the fascinating question being raised again after two major upsets at the weekend. First the All Blacks suffered their heaviest loss ever to the Springboks, going down...
I write in support of the excellent letter to the Herald by Pat Seymour on August 9 (More degradation of beachfront and dunes). A photo in The Herald on August 8 shows the serious beachfront erosion at Turihaua which extends north to the Marine...
I write as a newspaper lover. May our local paper continue for at least my lifetime. Best wishes to all involved with the forthcoming changes. However, more importantly I would like to thank all those young people who — rain, hail or snow — seem...
With sadness another tradition has come to an end. For years young people were able to earn a little for themselves or to help families. A big thank you to our paper boys and girls and parents who have delivered The Gisborne Herald to Dunblane for...
“Poland’s President Andrzej Duda confirmed on Tuesday that Russia has begun shifting some short-range nuclear weapons to neighbouring Belarus, a move that he said will change the security architecture of the region . . .” This worries me...
How many of you knew that National Party MP Tim van de Molen was censured by the multi-party parliamentary privileges committee for threatening a Labour MP? He is the first MP to have been censured since Winston Peters in 2008, even though several...
I guess teamwork really works.” That was the reaction of a stunned Alicia Hoskin after helping create New Zealand sporting history at the Canoe Sprint and Paracanoe World Championships in Duisberg, Germany. Dame Lisa Carrington, Gisborne’s...
The Sky Blues are now on a roll. Head coach Kahu Tamatea’s Enterprise Cars Ngāti Porou East Coast beat North Otago 38-29 in an astonishing gut-check on Saturday. The NPEC Kaupoi (Cowboys) led the Old Golds 21-14 at halftime and out-scored the...
Jimmy Somerton scored a hat-trick for Gisborne Thistle on Saturday — his third of the season — and still ended up on the losing side. Palmerston North United beat ALH Gisborne Thistle 5-3 at Childers Road Reserve to clear the first hurdle in...
Saturday morning was one for New Zealand rugby fans to forget after the All Blacks’ ill-disciplined 35-7 battering by South Africa. Saturday afternoon featured discipline issues for Poverty Bay as well as they let a 17-11 halftime lead slip to...
INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS 180s: TK Kaio 2, J Noanoa 2, A Taukamo-Pohio 2, M Jones, A Charlie, Q Stevens, M Stevens, I Eyles, T Campbell-Ratapu, F Waihape, S Ratima, A Kaiwai, M Hawea, H Eyles. TEAM RESULTS (P = pairs, S = singles, T = tons) A GRADE...
Monday, August 21 — Ryman Kiri Te Kanawa Retirement Village Teams (final results) Ann McCombe, Eileen Lee, Bette Parker, Patricia Corson 77.83 victory points Pippa Williams, Helen Kerisome, Caroline Kirkpatrick, Amanda Smith 57.27 victory points...
There are currently 68 active cases of Covid-19 in Tairāwhiti, according to Te Whatu Ora figures last updated at 2pm yesterday. No deaths have been recorded in Tairāwhiti for a month and the number of cases total 25,131. Across the country 26...
About 80 people turned out to celebrate Pickering Street Kindergarten’s 50th birthday on Saturday. The celebration started with a welcome and karakia by Colin Taare , followed by the planting of a tree, cutting of a cake, speeches, and a trip down...
Rheis Walker was one of about 50 runners delivering The Gisborne Herald around the city for the final time on Saturday afternoon. Rheis has been doing the K-42 run in the Paraone Road-Tamarau area for the past four years, continuing a tradition in...
A legal challenge by forest owners to a new rating system adopted by the Wairoa District Council has failed. In 2021 the council set the rating differential for ratepayers who own more than 100 ha of plantation forest at four. The New Zealand Forest...
Gisborne firefighters had three calls on Saturday that involved a small fire started by a candle at a city motel, a small fire in driftwood at Waikanae and an issue with a home ventilation system. Fire and Emergency NZ sent firefighters to the Teal...
Eastland Port’s ‘Wharf Wheels’ event to celebrate the completion of the new Wharf 7 project was a huge success on Saturday with many hundreds of people involved. Eastland Port Chief Operating Officer Regional Infrastructure Andrew Gaddum said...
GDC hearings committee to consider application to renew land-only agreement Ngati Oneone say it is time for the Gisborne District Council to return any land formerly owned by the hapu, in a submission opposing a land-only lease for Gisborne Yacht...
Fire destroyed a house at Raupunga, south of Wairoa this morning. All firefighters could do was dampen down the remains. Fire and Emergency NZ despatched crews from Wairoa and Putorino to the blaze just after 6am. “It was basically down on the...
The region is on the brink of setting a new, ominous weather record, and it is not good news for those on the land.