Confirmed temporary location of kura a factor in decision A Gisborne bar has been granted permission to set up shop just a few doors down from a kaupapa Māori school, despite strong opposition at a recent hearing. Anjuna Beer Garden will open on...
The dogs responsible for mauling sheep earlier this week have been destroyed. Gisborne District Council animal control team leader Ross Hannam said a number of sheep were injured or killed after being attacked by dogs on a farm around Kaiti this...
Three months after Cyclone Gabrielle, State Highway 2 will finally reopen between Napier and Wairoa this Sunday. The drive, which usually takes around 90 minutes, has been taking over six hours thanks to the lengthy detours currently in place...
Turanga Health continues to receive recognition for its Covid-19 response by being included in two prominent nationwide studies. The health provider was innovative and agile during the first two years of its Covid-19 response, creating...
Warm for this time of year? You betcha! And by an average of more than five degrees so far this month. Normally people are throwing something extra on the bed as May nights cool down, but for the first nine nights of this month, night-time...
Laughter, joy and the sound of bouncing basketballs reverberated off the playground of Whatatutu School yesterday. New Zealand Breakers captain Tom Abercrombie was a popular man as he took about 40 students through drills, games and match skills...
Breast scans at Gisborne Hospital are now more accurate and comfortable. A new ultrasound tomography machine arrived from Sweden last month that is able to detect even the slightest abnormality in the breast. The technology reduces the need for...
Teachers at the region’s secondary and area schools were on strike yesterday (Thursday), as they continue to press for better pay. Post Primary Teachers Association members have been taking part in national rolling strikes over the past week with...
Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon is calling for a more targeted approach to healthcare funding to address poor outcomes for Māori living in Tairāwhiti. The Health Select Committee recently released its 2021/22 review of Te Whatu Ora’s...
Los Angeles — When Peter “Star-Lord” Quill, while inspecting a murky extraterrestrial region, pressed play on Redbone’s Come and Get Your Love in the first Guardians of the Galaxy, it would have been hard to imagine that James Gunn’s space...
ODEON MULTIPLEX Book Club: The Next Chapter Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Mary Steenburgen and Candice Bergen take their book club antics to Italy. When things go off the rails and secrets are revealed, their relaxing vacation turns into...
Tairāwhiti is in the unprecedented position of having two independent MPs following the resignations of Labour’s Meka Whaitiri and the Green Party’s Dr Elizabeth Kerekere from their respective parties. Ms Whaitiri, formerly the Customs Minister...
The Gisborne-East Coast region was lucky that the latest sub-tropic rain event passed speedily to the east. Even so, the overnight “flick” of its tail showed how quickly heavy rain can cause damage. The atmospheric river that dumped on...
Tomorrow is World ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) Day and is a chance to acknowledge the estimated 25,000 sufferers in New Zealand. ME or chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a long-term (chronic), fluctuating, neurological disease that causes symptoms...
This week ■ Friday Night Karaoke Breakers Jandal Bar, from 8pm to midnight. Free entry. ■ CANCELLED: Midwave Breaks Dome Cinema at The Poverty Bay Club, Saturday. Refunds available ■ ‘Vivo! — Musica Y Baile’ Smash Palace, Banks Street...
May is NZ Music Month and local musicians, bands and music organisations are reminded there’s still time to take part in the formation of the region’s music strategy by completing the “What Music Means to Me” Tairāwhiti Music Survey...
Three artists in Gisborne have been selected as finalists in the inaugural Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award. The celebrated artists are: Michelle Hinekura Kerr for Ngā Huna Kōrero, Jody Tupara for Ngā Haututu o te Kāuta and Karaitiana Akroyd...
The operative word in Central Business District is business. What a dumb idea to locate a school amid all the busy traffic and its noise and toxic exhausts. No playground; kids barefoot on filthy footpaths. Emphatically the man’s business should...
Hear! Hear! to the Maori Party President for converting the House of Representatives into a circus. Facepalm. Raawiri Gilgen
I’ve long said we should become an independent nation. However, I fear that there isn’t the stability or cohesion in Aotearoa to even start to think about a constitution. We have a cohort of selfish people who can’t understand the concept of...
Lara — you can point out all the wrongs in society and use them as excuses why children aren’t going to school. It’s raining, it’s cold, I don’t want to walk, our home is damp . . . Children in parts of Africa and some Muslim countries...
A national survey conducted by the NZ Food Network shows an alarming rise in the number of people needing access to food support, portending a bleak winter for many New Zealanders. The network surveyed 51 food hubs across the country to find 480,104...
What Mitchell Forbes’ crew learned about Gisborne Boys’ High School rugby last year, they put to use at the weekend. In 2022, Gisborne hit their Wellington opposition hard. Stream won 39-11 but only after leading 12-11 at halftime. On Saturday...
Tapuae did themselves proud at the Gisborne Oval on Saturday. A week after their 29-10 win against two-time defending champions Charteris Choppers Wairoa Athletic in the derby match, the undefeated green and blacks are the undisputed leaders in...
The Courage Cup is an avenue. And the pathway laid out by the Gisborne Boys’ High School junior rugby competition — which also includes Wairoa College — is as important as the results. The quest for the cup began at Barry Park and...
Will Tokarangi look back on Game 1 of the Ngāti Porou East Coast Premier Men’s club rugby competition as one that got away from them? Time will tell ater Cape Runaway’s Tihirau Victory Club beat them 15-12 in the season-opening Club Day at...
There’s perfect starts and then there’s Quin McPike’s perfect start. The Poverty Bay club golfer delivered the ultimate shot — his first of the day — in Round 5 of the Oligoi Jug men’s interclub pennants at the Electrinet Park course on...
POVERTY BAY Murray Smith discovered his best form of 2023 to produce the round of the week on a Poverty Bay course that has proved a challenge over the past couple of weeks. Doc Smith won the division 2 men’s stableford on Saturday with 93-27-66...
Wainui artist Veronika Lambert is showing off her reverse glass painting works this week and is ready to answer any questions from the public about the ancient art. Reverse glass painting, also called Hinterglass, has existed since ancient times...
Gisborne’s Asia Braithwaite underlined her potential in claiming silver in the under-18 girls’ division of the Sequence Surf Gisborne Junior Pro championship at the weekend. The Gisborne Junior Pro is part of the wider New Zealand Grom Series...
Obituary for Michael Dawson Chrisp by Karen Johansen on behalf of the Chrisp family Michael Dawson Chrisp died on the morning of April 16, six days before his 95th birthday and the day before the 95th birthday of his wife, Catherine. This was the...
Future leaders got a lesson in crisis leadership from Mayor Rehette Stoltz. Students taking part in this year’s Aurora Leadership course met with the Mayor at Makauri School. “This year’s programme is called Aurora Leadership For a Crisis: We...
The upcoming 60th anniversary of the Kaimai Ranges NAC DC-3 crash, which killed 23 people including Gisborne residents, will probably be the last opportunity for relatives to grieve together, aviation historian Rev. Dr Richard Waugh says. July 3...
Two days after launching a rocket mission from Mahia for NASA, Rocket Lab has announced another mission for the United States space agency. Rocket Lab has signed a deal to launch NASA’s Starling mission, a multi-CubeSat mission to test and...