A Great opportunity: Ernslaw One harvest and logistics manager Buck Trafford has been accepted into Stanford’s Executive Leadership Development programme. Picture by Rebecca Grunwell Te Karaka’s Buck Trafford is swapping forestry work for some...
Jannine O’Meara Business owners must ensure they are prepared for the recently announced minimum wage increase, which will come into effect on April 1, 2023. The current adult minimum wage of $21.20 will increase to $22.70. This $1.50 hourly...
Belinda Mackay is president of the Gisborne Tairāwhiti Chamber of Commerce A few weeks ago, when I heard that the only way out of Gisborne was going to be a convoy at 9am the next day through the Waioeka Gorge, I thought, “It’s all too hard”...
A few weeks ago, when I heard that the only way out of Gisborne was going to be a convoy at 9am the next day through the Waioeka Gorge, I thought, “It’s all too hard”. I’m sure that I’m not the only one feeling that way at the moment. I...
Caption Life in contemporary New Zealand society is more demanding than ever says the man behind “First Steps”, Michael Barnett. First Steps is a free, online, self-directed resource hub which provides mental health and wellbeing support for the...
Tairāwhiti Startup Weekend is back next month and impact house Tāiki e! is looking forward to hosting new budding entrepreneurs. Now in its fifth year, the weekend-long event helps participants learn how to shape solutions into business models...
Locals interested in exploring a career in software engineering and technology can now apply for digital technology internships in Tairwhiti. In partnership with impact house Tiki e!, the digital technology team at Arup — a billion-dollar British...
Regional economic development agency Trust Tairāwhiti has been central to cyclone-recovery efforts for businesses here. “Our first priority was standing up the Business Hub with Starlink internet to enable businesses to be able to process wages...
The purchase of Eastland Network by Firstgas Group could help New Zealand reach its carbon neutral goals by electricity and gas distribution working together, the network’s new owners say. Firstgas Group has now received Overseas Investment Office...
Six weeks on from Cyclone Gabrielle, The Herald’s Andrew Ashton digs into just how much damage has been done to the region’s economy and how much it will take to recover . . . Businesses and rural sector enterprises have been paid out almost $9...
GISBORNE’S Tayler Reid snatched silver by the narrowest of margins at the opening event of the International Triathlon Union world series in New Plymouth yesterday. Reid beat Portugal’s Ricardo Batista in a sprint to the line for second as...
THE five Waikanae teams competing at the North Island IRB championships at the weekend came home with 14 medals, six of them gold. Kaiaponi Farms Waikanae finished second on overall points across the two-day IRB (inflatable rescue boat) event at...
DEFENDING premier grade netball champions YMP started the senior season with a hiss and a roar when they demolished Whangara Old Girls by 20 goals at Victoria Domain on Saturday. The first round of the PAK’nSAVE netball...
A judge is considering whether a Gisborne man accused of committing a serious assault in Australia nine years ago should be sent back there to face criminal proceedings. After an extradition hearing in Gisborne District Court last week, Judge Warren...
The Tūranga Bal, a community dance workshop weekend scheduled for next month, has been postponed until September. The decision was made in the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle to take into account the difficulty visitors might have getting to Gisborne for...
An eighth-time drink-driver was nearly five times the legal alcohol limit for driving when he refused to stop for police, and had to be pursued. Jay Tere McCrae, 34, a manager, is the same driver who, in 2018, injured a constable after failing...
A RUATORIA fundraising effort for Eastland Rescue Helicopter Trust has been described as “incredible”. Organised by Katherine Callaghan and a team of supporters, the event held at Te Puia Springs Golf Club clubhouse raised $25,000 for the trust...
The cooler clutch of autumn arrives on Wednesday, with a forecast southerly change out to deliver the shivers. MetService says southwesterly weather will deliver noticeably lower temperatures, with a top daytime temperature of only 15 degrees on...
A woman charged with dangerous driving causing the death of American tourist Nicholas Simon has made a preliminary court appearance. Mr Simon died after the vehicle he was driving was in collision with another vehicle on State Highway 2 (Matawai...
Building work on the housing project near the corner of Mill and Gladstone roads starts soon. “The project will deliver 21 much-needed, easy-to-maintain homes to the Te Hapara community,” Kāinga Ora East North Island acting regional director...
Rocket Lab successfully launched its 35th Electron rocket from Mahia on Friday. The mission deployed two multi-spectral Gen-2 satellites to low Earth orbit for BlackSky through launch services provider Spaceflight Inc. The mission took place just...
DON Pearson’s wairua was “set free” in a moving paddle-out at his beloved Makorori Beach yesterday. Around 100 surfers gathered at northern Makorori the day after the life of the surfing stalwart was celebrated at a funeral service at the...
“IT started off as something small. It turned into something not so small.” That was how Margaret and Kara Hull — the Relay Your Way organisers for Team HULLkfit — described their 24-hour event over the weekend, which peaked at 200...
A Gisborne couple tasked with an eye-watering clean-up following Cyclone Gabrielle feel they were neglected by the district council during and after the event. When the Waipaoa River burst its banks on the night of February 13, Ben and Sarah...
A free parking initiative aimed at encouraging shoppers back into town following Cyclone Gabrielle has had the opposite effect, a group of retailers say. Today marked the end of a two-week district council initiative to support local businesses...
A Gisborne man who found out he wasn’t insured after losing thousands of dollars of personal items during Cyclone Gabrielle is still counting himself as one of the lucky ones. The morning after the cyclone hit Tairāwhiti, Waipaoa resident Peter...
A Tairāwhiti education programme that boasts a one-year waiting list has bad news for schools eagerly awaiting their turn to visit. Wild Lab Tiaki Taiao, operating out of Waikereru Ecosanctuary, has been forced to put its popular programme on hold...
Gisborne District Council will not be following Napier’s example of testing floodwater in high-industry areas for contaminants following Cyclone Gabrielle. Last week Napier District Council revealed it was working with industry to resolve...
A Gisborne environmentalist who has spent 20 years trying to improve the state of a local river says her efforts have been decimated by the impact of Cyclone Gabrielle. But Robyn Wilkie is vowing to continue planting trees on the banks of the...
Gisborne families wanting to bury their loved ones at Taruheru Cemetery are in limbo while the district council monitors issues with groundwater at the site. Nobody has been buried at the cemetery since before Cyclone Gabrielle as groundwater levels...
Exhaustion, frustration and an air of sadness could be felt at a Tolaga Bay/Uawa meeting where members of the community shared emotional accounts of the pain they had endured on the back of recent cyclones. The Government’s panel for an...
ANOTHER “island” title goes on the line at the Awapuni Road track tomorrow night when Gisborne Speedway Club hosts the Autotech North Island TQ Championship. A great 16-strong line-up at the Eastland Group Raceway includes 1NZ Aaron Humble, 2NZ...
SENIOR grade netball starts at Victoria Domain tomorrow without a High School Old Girls team in the premier grade. The four-time premier grade champions have lost players for this season and have not been able to put together a team to contest the...
Thorn Parkes is on the front foot now. Former Poverty Bay men’s senior representative captain and left-handed top-order batsman Parkes, 22, yesterday scored his maiden first-class century. Playing for Otago Volts, Parkes — who will play for...