The call has gone out to foundation students of Lytton High School. The students of 1961, when Lytton High first opened, are invited to a reunion in April. The school only had third form students when it opened its doors in October 1961 under...
East Cape Road at the Awatere Bridge is closed to all vehicles. Tairāwhiti Civil Defence said the bridge had major structural damage.“Contractors are working to divert the river away from the twisted bridge pile because engineers are concerned the...
The dramatic fall from grace by Cabinet member Stuart Nash was the highlight of a week in politics that had its challenges for both the two main parties. Prime Minister Chris Hipkins acted decisively in first demoting Nash, then put him on a third...
Toitū Tairāwhiti Housing working hard to provide temporary accommodation for flood victims
The team putting together the bypass to enable traffic to access the East Coast past the Hikuwai No. 1 Bridge between Tolaga Bay and Tokomaru Bay expect to have it open by April 1. The bridge was taken out by Cyclone Gabrielle and Waka Kotahi New...
‘This will make a huge difference in helping people and business recover’
Keanu Makiri and Finn Robertson are quiet achievers. Yet these Gisborne Boys’ High School cricketers — more than any of their teammates on Wednesday — saw the Blues and Royals through to the T20 Challenge Cup final next week. Robertson made 29...
Private Owen Rayner joined the New Zealand Army Reserve Force last year hoping to serve his country. He didn't have to wait long as last month Cyclone Gabrielle pounded much of the North Island, including his home region of Tairāwhiti. He was...
It was a particularly happy St Patrick's Day — to be sure, to be sure — today for Gisborne couple Diane and Don Oates. Fifty years ago, Diane and Don got married. Diane did not want a big fuss made but did tell The Gisborne Herald they had...
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer for men in Aotearoa and Tairāwhiti has adopted a global best-practice method to perform prostate biopsies. A prostate biopsy is a procedure to remove samples of suspicious tissue from a man's prostate. The...
The “Farmy Army” has mobilisied again for another mission — helping in the massive clean-up of cyclone-ravaged properties in Gisborne and Hawke's Bay. The Federated Farmers volunteer group was dubbed the “Farmy Army” when it first rallied...
A single vote tipped the scales in favour of the “no” camp in reply to this week's Gisborne Herald webpoll question “do you think the response to the cyclone damage is going well?”From a total of 210 votes, 80 people (38.1 percent) voted...
The first kiwifruit of the season leave Gisborne by sea early next week on board the freighter C.S. Trust that went to anchor in Tūranganui-a-Kiwa/Poverty Bay yesterday. It is the first of eight scheduled kiwifruit shipments from here this season —...
Gisborne-East Coast men’s and women’s teams are in Christchurch competing in the national intercentre bowls tournament that finishes on Sunday. Play started yesterday at clubs throughout Canterbury. Men: Shaun Goldsbury, Malcolm Trowell, Steve...
The Trust Tairāwhiti Rescue Helicopter and another rescue chopper from Hawke's Bay were called out last night after a report from a passing cruise ship about a possible body in the water off Gisborne's coast. Maritime New Zealand initiated the...
Re: Another route south from Tutira, only 3km missing — March 11 letter. What's the point of promoting this to GDC when it's in the Hawke's Bay catchment? Due to emergency response efforts I have held off until now but after hearing this I am...
The Royal Commission into Abuse in Care has extended the closing date of survivor registrations to March 21.“For those survivors registered with the Royal Commission before this date, every effort will be made to hear your accounts by the end of...
A man has been accused by the district council of unlawfully digging up and removing soil that was highly contaminated with asbestos, arsenic and lead from a property he wanted to develop. Yannis Kokkosis, 34, and his solely-directed company Gypsy...
CANOE Racing New Zealand has started a Givealittle page to help raise money for the hard-hit Poverty Bay Kayak Club that had floodwaters through their clubrooms in Anzac Park during Cyclone Gabrielle. The donation page will also raise money for the...
The Poverty Bay Wairoa branch of the New Zealand Federation of Women’s Institutes presented some well-earned awards this week. Alison Crawford of the Poverty Bay Wairoa Federation presented Delys Hollamby (Puha Women’s Institute) a Long Service...
Bestriding Labour’s small conservative wing, MP for Napier Stuart Nash has been a valuable commodity for the party despite an occasional propensity for letting his mouth get away on him. He and colleagues Damien O’Connor, Kieran McAnulty and...
The rescue chopper crews involved in the search for a possible body seen in the water off the Gisborne coast on Friday night are confident if there was someone in the water they would have seen them. The Trust Tairāwhiti Rescue Helicopter and...
Farmer surveys showing that estimated on-farm damages as a result of Cyclone Gabrielle stand at $80 million are another dramatic sign of the long, hard recovery this region faces. Fence damage is a major part of the costs, with thousands of...
Seeing the photo of the severed Gisborne main water pipeline in The Gisborne Herald was quite a revelation. It looked such a fragile and flimsy structure, strung out as it was across the landscape. I understand that whatever caused the downfall of...
The Farm Forestry Association says the ministerial inquiry into land use across Tairāwhiti needs to look closely at the tree options for shoring up vulnerable farm and former forest land in the region or it will leave a legacy of mistakes long into...
THE district's surfing fraternity are mourning the loss of one of their own who passed away while surfing at Makorori at the weekend. Don Pearson, aged in his early 60s, suffered a medical event while he was surfing and despite the best efforts of...
For those of us unashamedly hooked on politics, the daily fix actually has little to do with incumbent government policies that affect us all. It identifies more with the alternative front-runners who could replace the current leaders doing the...
It’s been reported that people are taking on second jobs to make ends meet. That shouldn’t be necessary. Instead, your primary employer should pay you enough to live so you don’t need to work two jobs. In just 40 years, we’ve degraded from...
Bill Nighy is at his stunning, tightly-wound best in this poignant and powerful English-language “reimagining” of Akira Kurosawa’s much-loved 1952 movie Ikiru (To Live).He plays Mr Rodney Williams, a respected, no-nonsense English civil...
Oh my goodness, going to the supermarket is like going to the dentist now! One doesn’t know how much you have to pay — it’s beginning to be a nightmare. I can’t believe how everything is going up, especially women’s products. Just...