The latest roading recovery update from Gisborne District Council yesterday says fine weather helped contractors have a productive week across the region. Close to 50 percent of the planned water tabling targets have now been met. This water...
The Trust Tairāwhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter will be landed wherever its crew can to get help to those who need it. Last week was a classic example of this as the chopper ended up perched on a track on an exposed ridgeline. Last Wednesday the...
Census NZ has reassured the Tairāwhiti community no fines will be issued to people here for not completing the 2023 Census. But they stress the “vital” need for people to take part in the nation’s big count. The Government has waived the...
by Duncan Gillies, NZ Herald A group of Gisborne creatives who satirised the region’s relationship with Captain James Cook have turned their focus on the King. The video Cooked was produced by local radio station Turanga FM in 2019 to coincide...
Police have arrested a 28-year-old man in relation to two serious assaults that allegedly took place in Wairoa in March. An arrest warrant was executed at a Chamberlain Avenue address in the town yesterday morning where police took the man into...
Severe weather events, including Cyclone Gabrielle, resulted in the Firstlight Network team working tirelessly throughout the summer. At the same time, the Network (formerly Eastland Network) still had their planned programme of works to deliver for...
Glenroy Road Farm at Whangara, owned by the Lane Family and home of the Whangara Angus Stud, has gone on the market with Bayleys. The 1105-hectare property is held in multiple titles, owned by the Lane family for many years. The agents say the...
The latest assault from the sub-tropics passed the Gisborne-East Coast region without too much fuss, but another weather pattern has resulted in new watches issued by MetService. The agency yesterday put a Heavy Rain Watch in place for the northeast...
A murder trial witness says she is certain it was the accused’s ute that sped past her in the dark and stopped at the Childers Road/Titoki Street intersection where someone with “a large silhouette” got out and yelled “Sieg f****** Heil”...
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency contractors are putting in extra bridge protection at Turihaua. “Our contractors are currently on site at Turihaua Bridge SH35 working underneath the northern abutment of the bridge, to repair scour damage caused by...
Three months on from Cyclone Gabrielle the clean-up continues at Anzac Park. Anzac Park was one of the worst hit places in the city centre in the wake of February’s cyclone and the park remains closed. Gisborne District Council liveable...
Gisborne Hospital Ward 5 nurses were waiting yesterday afternoon for a judge’s reserved decision on whether their one-hour strike scheduled for tomorrow afternoon can proceed. Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand sought an injunction in Wellington...
RUGBY CPS Poverty Bay premier club rugby: GT Shearing 55 Larsawn Ngatapa 20, Enterprise Cars OBM 34 Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates 8, East Coast Farm Vets won by default over High School Old Boys. Senior 1: OBM 12 Uawa 47, Tapuae 68 LVB Farm Services...
All that glitters is not gold but in Musical Theatre Gisborne’s show Chicago, the glittery stuff can still be beautiful. The show, which opened last night at the War Memorial Theatre, was a spectacle to behold, no less when the dancing and singing...
There’s still time to donate to the annual Jammies 4 June campaign to help keep children warm this winter. Hundreds of pairs of new pyjamas have been donated so far in the seventh year of the winter drive. “Schools, early childhood services...
Preparations are under way to remove the broken Te Reinga Bridge by setting it down into the river and dragging it up and out of the water. The 100m long bridge upriver from Te Reinga Falls was severely compromised during flooding in early 2022 and...
I didn’t put it down to a gunshot; I thought a bomb had gone off. It went bang and lit up the whole inside of the car.” A Childers Road resident recalled for a High Court jury this week shots she saw being fired by someone in a utility vehicle...
The Orange Rain Warning for the area north of Tolaga Bay was lifted late yesterday afternoon, but MetService is still warning of strong to gale-force winds for the region. During yesterday some 40 to 50 millimetres of rain fell in the deep valleys...
The Rural Support Trust and Beef and Lamb NZ is holding meetings for the farming community next week which B+LNZ lead extension manager Mark Harris says will be an opportunity for people to share ideas on cyclone recovery. The meetings will be in...
Independent MP Dr Elizabeth Kerekere say she supports many initiatives for Māori announced in the Budget but is disappointed takatāpui (LGBT) and Rainbow communities have been overlooked. The Gisborne-based former Green MP said that on Wednesday...
Gisborne may become a long-term location for doctors training to become orthopaedic surgeons. Tauranga-based orthopaedic surgeon Dawson Muir and other trainers have just completed their first two-day “teaching event” with 11 trainee surgeons...
DANIEL Collier couldn’t beat William Brown in the morning. And he couldn’t beat him in the afternoon. But when it came to the sudden-death crunch in the Oligoi Jug men’s interclub pennants semifinals at Mahia on Sunday, Collier delivered. On...
Police used pepper spray and tasers to subdue a gang member during an incident in Gladstone Road near Cobden Street at midday on Thursday. A witness said it started when the car the gang member was driving pulled up in the middle of the road. “The...
They’re off to a good start. The Keenan Ruru-Poharama-coached Gisborne Boys’ High School Senior Premier basketball team came fourth of eight crews at the Trident High School Invitational Tournament at the Whakatane War Memorial Stadium this...
Applications to the New Zealand Red Cross Disaster Fund will stop next week, with the $25 million fund already likely oversubscribed. “The fund has attracted a very large number of applications, especially in the last few weeks. It’s likely...
The dream of representing New Zealand at the Australian Gymnastic Nationals is coming true for 16-year-old Lily Arnold. She is competing in the championships at the Gold Coast Sports and Leisure Centre in Queensland this weekend. Lily began her...
A new drug and mental health treatment facility for the region, promised by then Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern four years ago, might not be built under a Labour Government, depending on the outcome of October’s General Election.
Gisborne Club Darts Association INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS 180s: C Holmes (RSA1); H Ngarangione, K Arahanga, K Tamihere (Stallions); J Kingsbeer, R Mason 2 (Roseland); A Taukamo-Pohio, H Eyles (Vikings); R Leach (Outlaws); T Irwin, P Tom, J White...
The call has gone out for members of the past and present to celebrate YMP Hockey Club’s 100th anniversary. The club — which started out as Manutuke following a meeting in May of 1923 before changing to YMP when it merged with YMP rugby club —...
Unable to field team but coach confident blue and whites can ‘turn it around for next week’ Premier club rugby players are back in action today for the opening Saturday of Round 2 but only four teams are featuring. Enterprise Cars OBM host Kevin...
Poverty Bay-East Coast indoor bowlers started the representative season with a trip to Mount Maunganui to play Tauranga, Thames Valley and King Country. Although the team started the day poorly — picking up only 29 points from a possible 72 —...
Labour Party strategists will be feeling chipper this weekend after the 2023 Budget was generally well received, and a political poll out at the start of the week had them back in the box seat — although requiring the support of Te Pāti Māori as...
by Meredith Akuhata-Brown “Leaders of tomorrow, leaders for today” is the theme for this year’s Youth Week which happens to be this week. When I think about youth and leadership, I often consider: who do our youth think...