IT has been two months since Cyclone Gabrielle wreaked havoc on Tairāwhiti and many in the tourism and hospitality sectors are still doing it tough as the recovery continues. In the immediate aftermath of the cyclone, Trust Tairāwhiti, as the...
St John ambulance in Gisborne has been operating a new Critical Care Hilux vehicle in Gisborne for a few weeks now, manned by specialist staff. “The vehicle makes the team more readily available to attend more serious incidents, and to back up...
The table begins to tell its story. East Coast Farm Vets YMP will look to make it four wins from four games when they play at their home ground, Barry Park, against Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates tomorrow. Enterprise Cars OBM are the other team looking...
REVIEW: JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR Civil unrest, alienation, corruption at the highest level — not much has changed since AD33. So co-directors James Packman and LJ Mill have dispensed with sandals and swords for their high-energy production of Jesus...
Hikurangi Enterprises project Whare Ora has been working to house whānau around Tairāwhiti for two years and is now aiming to get a manufacturing facility set up in Ruatorea. “We want to build for people of the greater Waiapu Valley,”...
Rugby THE rugby draw for SATURDAY Civil Project Solution Poverty Bay rugby, Premier grade, Week 4. 2.45pm: GT Shearing Waikohu v Earthwork Solutions HSOB, Te Karaka Domain. Referee: Ben Holt. East Coast Farm Vets YMP v Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates...
The rising sport of pickleball has taken off in Gisborne. What started as a small group of people playing in October 2021 has turned into 150 members, with up to 70 people turning up to one session. “It’s the fastest-growing game in the...
Old rivers GMC Green and Paikea are the opening act of the 2023 Poverty Bay club hockey season, which starts tonight at Harry Barker Reserve. Teams have been preparing for several weeks for the start of play, and as it says on the Poverty Bay hockey...
News that the uber wealthy in New Zealand pay a lot less tax as a proportion of their incomes than middle-income earners do will come as no surprise to anyone; the only question is what the Labour Government will do about it. A Treasury report after...
Several countries are fighting the onset of demographic transition, which is the automatic dropping of birth rates and hence population when a certain level of economic security is reached. Australia is reported to be one of those countries. The...
Can you imagine being given a terminal cancer diagnosis and given eight months to live? This is the terrifying prognosis given to Theresa Zame, a much-loved member of our whanau. She had two medication choices. 1. Tagrix, a 3rd generation...
Those who question the worth of what this nation did to combat Covid-19 should reflect on the death toll in other countries. A comparison using this week’s World Health Organisation (WHO) figures is a stark pointer to the success of what was done...
At this solemn time of Anzac we remember the fallen — those that sacrificed and paid with their lives. The sacrifice continues as “ELDER ABUSE” infests our society with despicable acts. Our friend, relative and Vietnam veteran “Larry”...
Two of my brothers plus a lot of whanau went to all the wars. My question is, why is the Maori Battalion song not sung on Anzac Day at all New Zealand cenotaphs? Kia Or
New Zealand Media and Entertainment (NZME) has announced Gold FM in Gisborne is to switch frequencies with feel-good music radio station Coast. From Monday, May 1, Coast will broadcast on 106.1FM, and Gold FM will switch to the Coast frequency at...
A review into how rates are applied to Māori freehold land is under way at Gisborne District Council, with policy changes set to be included in the next long-term plan. It comes on the back of amendments to the Local Government Rating Act which in...
Fish and Game predicts a great start to the duck season in this region on May 6 because there appear to be plenty of ducks about. Mallard and grey duck numbers have been low in recent years which has forced Fish and Game to apply restrictive bag...
NASA and Rocket Lab are targeting a May Day launch for a new cyclone-hunting mission. A launch window for the mission, which takes place from Rocket Lab’s Mahia spaceport, opens at 1pm on Monday (May 1) and will launch two storm-tracking CubeSats...
Traffic came to a halt on State Highway 35 near Oneroa Road at Wainui Road this morning after a head-on car crash in which a pregnant woman suffered critical injuries. It happened at around 10am just south of the Oneroa Road corner. The crash...
Eastland Wood Council contractors, supported by local forestry companies, have been removing wood debris from Tolaga Bay beach since Monday. They started at the surf club end of the beach. Wood council chief executive Philip Hope said the EWC was...
National Party East Coast candidate Dana Kirkpatrick says gang numbers in the Eastern and Bay of Plenty police regions have almost doubled since 2017. The two police areas, which both cross into the East Coast electorate, have recorded a near 100...
House prices here have taken another tumble, new data from the real Estate Institute (REINZ) shows. Focusing on the Gisborne region, REINZ chief executive Jen Baird said the median price in Gisborne decreased 11.9 percent annually to $630,000 in...
A caravan parked on an unoccupied property at the corner of Pickering Street and Dalton Street in Kaiti was set on fire last night in what is being treated as an arson. Fire and Emergency NZ was called to the vacant property at around 11pm. “The...
Relief and final closure may be in sight for families still waiting to bury their loved ones at the Taruheru Cemetery where high ground water levels have stopped interments since Cyclone Gabrielle. Gisborne District Council’s latest burial...
Tairawhiti-based Rua Bioscience has launched its first medicine in Germany, making it one of the first companies of its kind in New Zealand to introduce a branded product in Europe’s largest medicinal cannabis market. Rua Bioscience chief...
A Wairoa man is in hospital with serious injuries after he was assaulted in his bed by an unknown intruder early yesterday morning. It happened at around 2.25am at a house in Brian Avenue. Police have appealed to the public for any information...
More information about Gisborne’s Cenotaph has come in as its 100th birthday was marked at the Anzac Day service on Tuesday. June Stichbury says her father-in-law, Captain Leslie Stichbury, is the serviceman that the soldier on top of the marble...
The owner of a Gisborne bar hoping to set up shop on the main street has been met with strong opposition from a Māori kura kaupapa operating just a few doors down. The tension was palpable at a liquor licensing hearing held at Gisborne District...
A Josh Adams hat-trick powered Gisborne United Firsts to a 5-2 victory over Wainui Sharks in Eastern League 1 football on Saturday. Adams scored the second, third and fourth goals for Heavy Equipment Services United in a game that was closer than...
Tough customers like Shyann Wyllie are the sabre’s tip in rugby. This Saturday, fearless forward Wyllie, 24, will play his 50th premier game since 2017 in the legendary black and white hoops of East Coast Farm Vets YMP against Kevin Hollis Glass...
Electrinet Park Foursomes success is no rocket science formula. It won’t work without both players firing — a basic equation proved by Jo Kerr and Lynne Holmberg at the Gisborne Park Ladies 18-hole Open Foursomes tournament yesterday. The...
A room full of locals with an interest in literature joined in to celebrate the release of two books: Brothers in Whalesong, authored by Regina de Wolf, and Not Just a Teacher, by Taranga Kent, at Waikanae Surf Club last week. Speaking to the...
Art has always been a relevant and unexpected tool in teaching history. Pictographs, photographs and paintings have often been known to communicate information about historical events. Whether it be the prehistoric cave art of Altamira or the Taj...