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Powering local solutions into a translucent future

I read in the paper the Gisborne Olympic Pools has experienced conflict and intimidation from badly behaved patrons. The staff and public who use this vital facility should not have to tolerate such humbug from idiots who have no respect for the...

Simplified urine test for old guys

Go outside and pee in the garden. If ants gather: Diabetes. IF you pee on your feet: Prostate. IF it smells like a Barbecue: Cholesterol. IF when you shake it, your wrist hurts: Osteoarthritis. IF you return to your room with your penis outside your...

Climate leadership needed from our politicians

Re: Leader who held world’s attention, April 6 editorial. Thanks editor. In her valedictory speech Jacinda Ardern urged everyone to, “please, take the politics out of climate change”. Indeed, we have lost too much time because rather than...

Good Friday Agreement plus 25

by Gwynne Dyer US President Joe Biden is visiting Ireland this week to celebrate an anniversary that almost didn’t happen. It’s the 25th anniversary of the “Good Friday Agreement” of 1998 that ended 30 years of killing in Northern Ireland...

Region among most exposed to climate impacts: Treasury report

This region and some of the mainstays of our economy have been identified as being particularly exposed to the impacts of climate change in a new Treasury report that says New Zealand’s economy as a whole is well placed thanks to strong...

Former Eastern District police commander appointed to new top job

Police Commissioner Andrew Coster has welcomed the appointment of two new statutory Deputy Commissioners and one of them is former Eastern District Police Commander Tania Kura. The other is Deputy Commissioner Jevon McSkimming based in Wellington...

Logs back on the beach

Gisborne Herald photographer Liam Clayton took the photos above of the woody debris on the main city beachfront. The first shot shows the beach clean-up at Waikanae Beach late last month as contractors made good progress. But after the weekend rain...

Man fleeing police crashed, landing himself and another in hospital

A motorist was seriously injured in a crash on Rutene Road caused by a man driving recklessly to evade police. Emergency services had to cut the injured driver from the wreckage of his car, which was shunted in the crash on to the verge of...

Man ordered to be extradited to Australia to face assault charge

A judge has ordered a Gisborne man to be extradited to Australia to face a serious assault charge arising from an alleged incident more than eight years ago. Judge Warren Cathcart delivered his reserved decision last Tuesday, after a hearing in...

Four Gisborne teams win their grade at Easter Classic tournament

GISBORNE basketball teams have come back from Tauranga laden with gold. Four of the 12 age-group teams representing Gisborne Basketball Association (GBA) at the Mel Young Easter Classic tournament won their finals yesterday. Adrian Sparks’s boys...

Mitchell battles gnarly conditions to win NZ open wakeski title

Many-times champion Dave Mitchell battled the gnarliest Gisborne sea conditions he can remember as he won his umpteenth New Zealand open waveski surfing title at the weekend. Contesting titles goes all the way back to when he rose to No. 2 in the...

AI and our elections: do the sniff test

Tim Wilson, Maxim Institute executive director Before he was actually indicted, AI-generated fake images of Donald Trump scuffling with the NYPD during his “arrest” swiftly accumulated millions of views — proof again that Artificial...

Tough environment for election year

What is generally regarded as the final warm holiday of the year before winter, Easter has been a disappointment for this district and in keeping with a summer which will be best forgotten by most. After a generally dismal first three days, however...

Abundance of inanga eggs found at monitored sites

Autumn is the season teams go out looking for inanga eggs. Inanga is a native fish and one of five whitebait species in New Zealand. Te Ngahuru Tikoitikoiere team from Rongowhakaata Iwi Trust have been monitoring three significant sites for signs of...

Police see results in efforts targeting organised crime

Police believe their operation targeting gangs and organised crime in the region has been having an impact, particularly in relation to firearms incidents and methamphetamine supply. Operation Kotare’s aim was to prevent gang violence and disrupt...

Search resumes for two missing hunters

A search and rescue operation resumed this morning for two hunters missing on the Bay of Plenty side of the Raukumara Forest Park on the East Cape. Police were notified at 11.10am yesterday about two people overdue from a hunting trip. “They went...

Wet Easter weekend ended with a warm, humid night

Sleep for many would have been hard to come by last night, with a warm night and high humidity at the end of unsettled weather over Easter. After morning rain, yesterday delivered a high of 25 degrees and warmth which persisted into the night, with...

Rescue chopper navigates tricky landing on silt

Great direction from people on the ground helped the Trust Tairāwhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter make a safe landing in a sea of silt during a mission last week. The medical event callout was to a property at the end of Matairau Road, over the...