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"Not in child's best interests": High Court judge halts extradition

The Crown is furthering its efforts to have a Gisborne man extradited to Australia to face an assault charge that dates back to 2014. In June this year, the man successfully appealed to the High Court to quash an earlier district court decision...

‘Whenua Wenerei’ a winner for Mangatuna

Only five schools across the country were chosen to win a TREEmendous Education Programme for 2023, and Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Mangatuna, East Coast is one of the five. The school’s winning ticket was establishing Whenua Wenerei or Landmarks...

Rapid Relief Team bringing support for 300 farmers

The Rapid Relief Team, operated globally by the Brethren Church, have a “Farmers Community Connect” planned for Gisborne on September 1. They aim to bring 300 Tairāwhiti farmers together for the event. “The farming industry are doing it tough...

Fund help for Matapuna

Matapuna Trust’s special interest fund set up this year with the Sunrise Foundation is expected to benefit their students for years to come. The fund is the 50th to be seeded with Sunrise. The education centre’s trust board could see that...

‘Green shoots’ in housing market

House prices here are still falling but realtors say “green shoots” and encouraging signs are starting to emerge. Latest sales data provided by the Real Estate Institute (REINZ) for last month show the median price in Gisborne decreased by 8.6...

Spreading kindness at Tiniroto Plunket event

The tight-knit Tiniroto community has shown its support for tamariki at a heart-warming Whānau Āwhina Plunket event. Despite the area still being severely impacted by Cyclone Gabrielle, local whānau gathered at the Tiniroto Community Hall this...

Poor response forces Alzheimers Gisborne Tairawhiti to cancel festive fundraiser, spuds still on

September is World Alzheimers month but for Alzheimers Gisborne Tairawhiti it is not quite the glitzy, high profile month they were hoping for. Alzheimers Gisborne Tairawhiti has had to cancel its proposed major fundraiser on September 2, due to...

Auditing our rubbish: Gisborne's food waste excesses 37.4 tonnes per week

Every week, 42.8 percent of what Gisborne households throw away in their kerbside rubbish is food waste, a new survey shows. “That adds up to a whopping 37.4 tonnes every week of uneaten food that we then pay to truck out of town to a landfill,”...

Takeaway frontage demolished in crash

The front doors of the Kwangchow Takeaway shop in Wainui Road were demolished on Tuesday afternoon when a car went out of control and smashed into the store. It happened at around 3pm, much to the shock of takeaway shop proprietors Sam and Jaia Su...

Shootout dramas in club hockey thrillers

Waituhi into Prem 1 men’s final, another GMC-YMP women’s title decider

Polar ice to go under the microscope in Nasa, Rocket Lab deal

Rocket Lab’s Māhia space port will be the launchpad for a new polar ice cap research project. The United States-based company yesterday signed a double-launch deal with Nasa to deliver the agency’s climate change research-focused mission...

Lyndhurst St landlord wins tenancy dispute

Tribunal told clean-up of property took 30 hours and cost $1800. Tenants at a Lyndhurst Street property left owing rent and their landlord saddled with the task of cleaning up a huge mess, including bottles of urine left by someone who had been...

Taupo event raises $8.5k for Hear4U

The fundraising efforts of more than 240 people who took part in the Taupo Half Marathon earlier this month raised around $8500 for the local Hear4U organisation. They joined more than 2000 competitors for the annual event, which includes...

Mystery donors secure Stella Maris ECE future

A group of mystery benefactors have stepped forward to seed the Stella Maris Catholic Early Childhood Centre Endowment Fund with The Sunrise Foundation. The new fund has been established to support those children in greatest need from families who...

147 Covid cases in Tairāwhiti on eve of Govt lifting all restrictions

There are 147 active cases of Covid-19 in Tairāwhiti. These are the latest figures released by Te Whatu Ora at 11.59pm on Sunday. There have been 36 deaths, but none were reported in the week to Sunday night and a total of 24,966 cases in the...

Chook debate a lively affair at council table

Gisborne district councillors tested their poultry knowledge last week as they moved to replace a decade-old animal bylaw with a revamped version. But there was some disagreement over what constituted an appropriate number of hens, during a lively...

Rahui as police inquiry continues

A rahui has been placed on the city rivers after a man was found in the Turanganui River last Thursday night. He died as a result of an apparent drowning. Police have yet to release the name of the man as they are still in the process of notifying...

Childers Road road cones 'there to ensure safety of road users'

Childers Road is sinking. It’s true. The 60 to 70 orange road management cones that have been in Childers Road, near Disraeli Street, for more than three weeks, are there to ensure the safety of road users. A Gisborne District Council spokeswoman...