INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS 180s: J Collier (Roseland); K Tamihere (Stallions); L Kaa, M Stevens (Rebels); T Campbell-Ratapu (Tao Spartans); R Leach (Outlaws); A Cross (6 Shooters); S Gooch (Spandangles); I Eyles 2 (Gunz). Highest start (180): I Eyles...
Three people are in Gisborne Hospital with Covid-19. A Te Whatu Ora Tairāwhiti spokeswoman said cases were trending up with a daily average of 17. There were between six and 30 cases this past week. The Ministry of Health’s latest figures, dated...
The need for a swift energy transition and securing devices from potential cyberattacks were topics of discussion at the monthly Gisborne U3A meeting at the Cosmopolitan Club. U3A aims to nurture minds and bodies and provide social engagements for...
SIXTEEN gymnasts from Gisborne signed up to compete in the Wellington Open Championships. It was a huge commitment from their families to get them to Wellington, especially with the road to Napier being closed by the effects of Cyclone Gabrielle...
A man has admitted deliberately lighting a fire last year at an unoccupied Tokomaru Bay house where the owner was murdered in 2019. Jamie Migowl Thomas, 33, pleaded guilty in Gisborne District Court this week to two charges of arson — one at 15...
Age is just a number when it comes to Gisborne master athletes Debbie Hutchings and Tamera Nelson. Both women have qualified for the CrossFit Torian Pro Championships in Brisbane, Australia. To qualify, athletes enter their scores attained in the...
The Royal New Zealand Air Force’s Black Falcons aerobatics display team drew hundreds of people to the city foreshore and Tītīrangi/Kaiti Hill at lunchtime yesterday. The team turned on a 15-to-20-minute display that had the big crowd on the...
A Royal New Zealand Air Force squadron known as the Black Falcons accomplished a mission to entertain Gisborne in the air and on the ground yesterday. Gisborne Mayor Rehette Stoltz enthusiastically accepted an invitation to sit in the cockpit of an...
There is a sense that land has been exploited because forestry companies were “unregulated” and “unmonitored”, says the chair of a ministerial inquiry into land use in Tairāwhiti and Wairoa. The inquiry was set up in the wake of Cyclone...
A woman accused of stealing more than $16,000 worth of alcohol and other goods — including a water feature — from local shops, failed to front at court when her case was called this week. Krystal Kelly Love, 38, who is listed on court documents...
Plans to hold a charity auction to raise funds for our flood-stricken region in the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle are well under way, with the opportunity for local businesses, organisations and services to become sponsors or donate to the event...
Tairāwhiti kaumatua Stan Pardoe has received an honorary doctorate from Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi for his contributions to Mātauranga Māori — an honour that humbled and surprised the 80-year-old. When told of the honour in a phone call...
Having already extracted more than $50,000 from a Wairoa man by essentially blackmailing him, a woman went to his workplace to demand more money. But police were there waiting to arrest her. Diane Sandra-Leah Winter pleaded guilty in Gisborne...
Gwynne Dyer China has been having conniptions again. President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan had a courtesy meeting last week with the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy. Beijing reacted by issuing a “stern warning” to the...
Travel writer Mike Yardley catches the ferry out to Matiu/Somes Island in Wellington Harbour, before travelling on to delightful Days Bay. Then he goes exploring along the Kapiti Coast. Wellington had dawned bright and brilliant as I made my way to...
Organised seasonally, and with growing guides for each ingredient, Italian-Kiwi Bri DiMattina’s cookbook Nostrana is full of simple, gorgeous and delicious recipes with fresh vegetables and fruits you can easily grow and harvest yourself...
The foliage of this plush fern is a rich green, and it unfurls from softly hairy rhizomes that creep along the top of the compost and eventually dangle over the sides of the pot. This is one of the easiest ferns to grow. Hare’s Foot Ferns...
Ted Skuse has been home from Queensland, visiting family here, and John Gillies caught up with him. Ted Skuse is 76 years old and can’t work out how to retire. He was in Gisborne, his home town, to see family this month and returned to...
Gisborne swimmer Taylor Newman won a silver medal on Day 1 of the New Zealand Age Group Swimming Nationals being held in Hastings at the new 10-lane, $32.5 million Hawke’s Bay Regional Aquatic Centre. She is one of three Enterprise Swim Team girls...
Gisborne Thistle embark on perhaps the toughest campaign of their 99-year history when they play Taradale in Hawke’s Bay tomorrow. It is the first of eight away games in a row — a punishing schedule devised by the Jags themselves to keep them in...
Poverty Bay Senior 1 club rugby kicks off tomorrow with two teams added to the competition. Due to restricted access to the roads north of Tolaga Bay, Ngati Porou East Coast union club Uawa will be playing in the Poverty Bay Rugby Football Union...
The green carpet will be rolled out for Waikohu when the 2023 Oligoi Jug men’s interclub pennants tees off at the Patutahi course tomorrow. Thanks to some “outside” assistance, the men from Te Karaka are returning to Oligoi action and will...
It's a finale worthy of the name. Speedway season ends with more stunning power driving in the superstocks, masses of youth ministock action, a battle for a coveted trophy, a demolition derby and fireworks. Best-pairs action tonight in the...
BATTLE OF THE OVAL. Waikohu get an early chance of a bit of redemption in Poverty Bay premier club rugby tomorrow. Week 2 of the Civil Project Solutions Poverty Bay premier rugby sees GT Shearing Waikohu up against East Coast Farm Vets YMP at Barry...
Gisborne nurses will rally at Heipipi Endeavour Park tomorrow as part of a nationwide campaign calling on political parties to address the country’s nursing and health crisis. The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) expects thousands of nurses...
National Party East Coast candidate Dana Kirkpatrick says the Government’s relaunched water reforms, announced yesterday, are “the same reforms, just with a new coat of paint”. The major change in the newly named Affordable Water Reforms...
Gisborne Community Corrections workers walked off the job yesterday after members rejected the department’s pay offer following nine months of negotiation. Workers who are members of the Public Service Association Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi...
Te Tairāwhiti has been chosen as one of 12 regions to pilot a Localities Plan — a whānau and community-led approach to health planning and priority setting which will inform future health investment. The Localities Plan, Te Aka Whai Ora-Māori...
The best of a lot of bad options. That is how GP and part owner of Three Rivers Medical Fergus Aitcheson describes a reluctant decision to reduce the medical centre’s hours of operation. Its hand has been forced by years of underfunding and...
State Highway 2 will be closed for 48 hours next Wednesday, so roading crews can replace the collapsed culvert at Mōrere, north of Nūhaka. “This is a significant piece of work, but we realise it also requires disruption to people’s lives. We...
A morning walk with her dog by the Wairoa River turned into an ordeal for a woman when a mentally ill man tried to kiss her and drag her off into bushes. The woman managed to overpower him, picked up her dog and ran to the nearby road where she...
Options considered as water table level remains high Burial suspension notices because of the high water table level at Taruheru Cemetery since Cyclone Gabrielle remain in place. The latest suspension notice was put in place on April 5, and while it...
Higgins Contractors has signed an agreement to work alongside a group of experienced contract partners on a cyclone recovery plan for Hawke’s Bay and Tairāwhiti. In signing an interim alliance agreement today, Fletcher Building Construction...