YMP and Waikohu will contest the 2023 Poverty Bay Premier club rugby grand final after contrasting semifinal wins at the weekend. East Coast Farm Vets YMP — the reigning champions — made no contest of their Civil Project Solutions semifinal...
If Minister of Corrections Kelvin Davis was evaluated by private enterprise on the results of the Chief Ombudsman’s report he would be unemployed. The buck stops with him. Ian Gaskin, Tuai
Just in time for the school holidays, the weather gods are finally offering more moderate weather for the next week. Apart from a few showers, the days through to next weekend should mostly be a welcome relief for a region in recovery mode...
A familiar voice of East Coast iwi radio will finally get a sleep-in after 27 years of early starts as Radio Ngāti Porou’s esteemed breakfast announcer. Yesterday, Radio Ngāti Porou breakfast announcer Kahu Waitoa — known by his community as...
Gisborne District Council is calling on expressions of interest for its new community-led recovery plan following severe weather across the region. The Recovery Coordination Centre — which was set up to ensure a coordinated recovery for...
Two of Gisborne’s favourite spots for recreation — the Makorori Headland reserve and Titirangi (Kaiti Hill) are closed until further notice. The Makorori Headland is unstable in multiple areas with slips causing subsidence. People are asked to...
Police on Thursday recovered the body of a man from a car that had left the Matahiia Road inland from Ruatoria and plunged into the Mata River. They were notified at around 3pm on Wednesday that a car had been seen in the river. Police said it was...
Trust Tairāwhiti chief executive Gavin Murphy is stepping down effective July 2023 after nearly six years in the role, says trust chair John Clarke. “After guiding the trust through the amalgamation of the trust to include the economic...
Gisborne District Council has confirmed two new appointments to the governance board of Trust Tairāwhiti “to take forward the good work of departing trustees Dr Jill Chrisp and Kristen Kohere-Soutar”. Mayor Rehette Stoltz acknowledged the...
Ilminster Intermediate School celebrated Matariki and the upcoming school holidays with a special assembly and concert designed to lift their spirits after what has been a tough term. The celebration focused on recognising the key values of Matariki...
Contrary to what a correspondent said on Thursday’s opinion page, there has not been an external audit of council and Civil Defence actions during Cyclone Gabrielle. An independent third party was commissioned to compile an event timeline, which...
Gwynne Dyer “I said to Putin: ‘We could waste (Prigozhin), no problem. If not on the first try, then on the second.’ I told him: ‘Don’t do this’,” said Aleksandr Lukashenko, long-ruling dictator of Belarus, clearly delighted at having...
The 50-metre pool at the Gisborne Olympic pool complex was heated again from Thursday after wood chip issues were solved, and pool management said the pool would reopen today. The water would be in a “cooler yet swimmable” condition over the...
June will long be remembered by Gisborne-East Coast folk as the month it forgot to stop raining. The past 30 days have been some of the most testing in the district’s history — Gisborne’s wettest June in 144 years, with rain on 20 of those...
A new initiative to help get patients from the East Coast to health appointments in Gisborne city starts on Monday. “There are not many places in Aotearoa that don’t have free health shuttles funded, so it felt like the East Coast was the last...
Two forestry companies and their directors charged by the District Council for alleged breaches of resource consents, revealed by storm events last March, have chosen to have their cases decided by juries. The companies and their respective...
A five-year-old boy stood screaming in fear as his father stormed about their house throwing items, pushing the boy’s mother, and whipping her with an extension cord. The woman had just arrived home from her nightshift work and had cooked...
A new video being launched in Gisborne tomorrow features Civil Defence messages in 21 languages. It is the brainchild of the Tairāwhiti Multicultural Council (TMC). The hour-and-a-half video features locals of different ethnicities, reading...
Kowhai House, Gisborne’s community immunisation centre based in Palmerston Road, closed yesterday. The hub started distributing RAT tests and Covid-19 vaccinations in 2020 and later became a general immunisation hub for the Tairāwhiti community...
A judge has been told how an 11-year-old boy, regularly beaten and whipped by his father, was removed from his family and sent to Weymouth Boys’ Home, where the abuse by people in authority continued and the boy's criminal offending began. That...
All children aged 12 years and under will ride the bus for free from today. The Government announced the initiative last month in an attempt to ease the cost-of-living pressure on families. Gisborne District Council network technician Hanoa Morete...
GISBORNE CLUB DARTS ASSOCIATION June 27 — Individual highlights 180s: J White (Brezz’n Gold); H Brown (2) (Stallions); T Kaio (2), M Reedy (Done n Dusted); T O’Neill ( 6 Shooters). Highest start: (180) H Brown (Stallions); T Kaio (Done n...
If at first you don’t succeed . . . well, you know the rest. Woolie Jumpers epitomise the old saying about trying again and never giving up. They won the social grade of the BIZminton 2023 mercantile badminton competition after humble beginnings...
Gisborne’s Renee Holmes underlined her importance to the “new-era” Black Ferns with a strong performance in a 50-0 whitewash of Australia in Brisbane on Thursday night. The Wallaroos had no answer to the world champions in their opening clash...
Ratanui Angus at Tuai inland from Wairoa got the East Coast Angus rising two-year-old bull sales season off to a strong sell-out start in their on-farm auction yesterday afternoon. The Story family sold 28 out of 28 young bulls put up for sale, for...
Ratanui Angus at Tuai inland from Wairoa got the East Coast Angus rising two-year-old bull sales season off to a strong sell-out start in their on-farm auction yesterday afternoon. The Story family sold 28 out of 28 young bulls put up for sale, for...
Adam Young When I imagine the exercise of free speech, speaking truth to power and “sticking it to the man”, I don’t think of back-room discussions or big-money lobbying. No, one simply needs to run a Google image search of “free speech”...
There was a fall of up to $20 per head for store lambs at the Matawhero Saleyards yesterday. The wet ground conditions with market and climate uncertainty are making potential buyers cautious. There were a total of 1445 sheep sent for sale...
Gisborne Olympian Alicia Hoskin has recently teamed up with Bayleys to create a programme aimed at helping youngsters. Diana Dobson finds out more . . . Olympic kayaker Alicia Hoskin has plenty of possible superpowers she could claim. Instead, this...
For 100 years, land at Tokomaru Bay has been locked up under archaic legislation, shutting Māori landowners out of what is rightfully theirs. But one woman is refusing to give up the fight to get it back. Matthew Rosenberg speaks with Tin...
Thai cuisine is fragrant, exotic and delicious. Cooking Thai food often involves balancing flavours intricately, so you end up with the food equivalent of ‘harmony’ — rather than a dish that is too spicy, too sour, too sweet or dominated by...
No matter how big or small you garden may be, supporting the pollinators will help you while you help them. Butterflies, bees and birds add beauty and excitement to any garden. Bees, butterflies, birds, and insects play a really important role in...
In the enchanting Cambodian city of Siem Reap, Mike Yardley discovers a world of paradoxes, where ancient traditions intertwine with modern allure. After the convulsion of Covid, the tourist trade has stirred back into life in Siem Reap, gateway to...
One definition of a news story is that it’s something that someone doesn’t want printed on the front page. The Herald obviously had such a story in Saturday’s edition because it had the effect of getting right up the nose of the GDC chief...