Auditions will take place this Sunday for Gisborne Unity Theatre's newest play, The Wolves by Sarah de Lappe. Written in 2016 and named as a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the play chronicles six Saturday mornings in the lives of...
SoftballFRIDAY — Waikirikiri Park, men, 6pm: D1, Spartans v GBHS 1. Saturday — Women, 1pm: D1, Rovers 1 v GGHS3pm: D2, Scorpions v Lytton Gems. Bye: Rovers 2. Men, 1pm: D2, GBHS 2 v Tolaga Titans. 3pm: D1, TWK Rams v Steelers. Tolaga Magic girls...
EIGHT “digi-mamas” graduated on Friday from Tairawhiti REAP’s Computers in Homes Digi-Mama programme. The Kaiti women made up the first intake for the course that gave them skills in the use of software such as Microsoft Office and furnished...
Stevedoring company ISO Limited has been convicted and ordered to undertake significant health and safety improvements in relation to the death of a Gisborne employee Shannon Brooke Rangihuna-Kemp. It must also pay her family $100,000. Ms...
GISBORNE Ukulele Underground turns two this month and to celebrate, the ensemble has invited Taranaki’s Tony Hansen back to Gisborne to help develop players’ ukulele skills. Hansen last visited Gisborne in 2015 to run a weekend of beginner...
Hauora Tairāwhiti chief executive Jim Green estimates 80 percent of people hospitalised in Gisborne with Covid-19 have been admitted for other reasons, and are then tested and found to be positive for Covid. He was speaking at the monthly DHB...
RIVER and stream levels are plummeting, irrigation restrictions loom over the Gisborne Flats and city water use has skyrocketed. The Waipaoa River level has dropped to 0.859 of a metre at the Kaiteratahi Bridge, while Te Arai Stream has dropped by...
Wines produced from Gisborne grapes featured in the 17th annual New World Wine Awards that were announced yesterday, with the wines judged champion aromatic, champion pinot gris and champion “bubbles”, from more than a thousand wines. Coopers...
What do you think about the news New Zealand's 20 district health boards will be centralised into a single organisation?
A LONG road to recovery is expected for a dog the SPCA has dubbed "Jimmy" after he was found malnourished and with severe head injuries, a likely result of being mistreated. An SPCA spokeswoman said Jimmy was found with bad wounds, bruising to his...
GISBORNE District Council is not changing its budgeted spending for the Waipaoa Flood Control Scheme upgrade, despite being faced with a big shortfall in the proposed budget for the project. The Future Tairawhiti committee of all councillors has...
Over three decades after his death, a scholarship started in the memory of Steve Crosby, a local lawyer and outstanding sportsman, continues to benefit Gisborne students. The scholarship, founded by his friends after his premature death, aged just...
Para swimmer Sophie Pascoe lead a 200-strong New Zealand contingent of athletes and support staff at the opening ceremony of the 21st Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast last night. The Kiwis received a huge ovation surpassed only by Australia —...
First I want to congratulate Peter Jones for his timely letter regarding the United Nations (November 22). It is scary stuff reading the Global Compact of safe and regular migration. This will mean that peoples wishing to come to your country, in...
When English pop singer Cliff Richard’s band rehearsed in a London cafe across the road from the cafe bass player Brendon Gill’s band rehearsed in during the 1960s, the two once got together to perform Dream, Dream, Dream. The Cliff Richard...
The laws against cannabis have been a spectacular failure, yet people regularly argue in support of the present law by citing road crashes involving cannabis-affected drivers. Since such crashes occur in spite of the present law, they cannot be an...
The Waikanae inflatable rescue boat crews finished third overall at the North Island Championships at Waihi Beach at the weekend and described the event as a solid build-up for the national championships here in a fortnight. The BP Surf Rescue New...
If there was football at Childers Road Reserve, Geoff Logan would often be there standing by a bin. The co-founder of Sunshine Brewery in Gisborne chipped in to help cover fees for representative teams, adverse weather did not deter his presence at...
Wet weather in the past two weeks has disrupted the very end of the region’s grain maize harvest. Some paddocks were flooded but growers hope they can salvage the crops. Corson Grain has around 5 percent of its crop still to be harvested.“We had...
Call to vaccinate children as soon as possible
CLAYDENS Waikohu get a final chance tomorrow to fine-tune their play ahead of the premier-grade netball playoffs next week and their opponents will give them the workout they need. The Waikohu-Lytton Senior A clash at 11am will be the last game in...
Recently I have been thinking about the role of the Gisborne Chamber of Commerce in our region. There are a lot of excellent businesses in our community where people are head down, getting on with business. The local economy is in a good...
I must admit it has been a bit of a roller coaster ride these past few weeks. I would like to extend my congratulations to the new government. It’s a huge privilege and responsibility to be in government, and I wish the new ministers all the best...
The miserable, wet night didn’t put a dampener on the Eastland Community Trust annual meeting last night, with about 100 people in attendance and at least a dozen expressing gratitude for the financial support ECT had given their community...
Big Wednesday claimedTHE unclaimed winning Big Wednesday ticket from last week’s final draw has been claimed. Bought from Ideal Store, the win was claimed at Countdown Gisborne. The ticket was one of three winning $87,272 tickets sold here. The...
TOKOMARU Bay man Hakarangi Tichborne, former Wairoa College student Zane Douglas and the New Zealand Defence Force rugby team have made a winning start to the International Defence Rugby Competition. They beat the Australian Defence Force 47-35 in...
Three Gisborne firefighters have won a Fire and Emergency Region 2 ‘‘Celebrating Success’’ award for teaching te reo Maori to their firefighter colleagues in order to better connect with the Maori community. Senior firefighter George Clarke...
A new Mayor stamping their mark or a planned reorganisation prepared well in advance?It is hard to say, as Gisborne District Council has been making more of its governance decisions over recent years in public-excluded or “workshop” sessions...
THE SHIP used by Captain James Cook for his voyage to New Zealand may have been found on the bottom of the ocean floor in a US harbour. The Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project (RIMAP) believes it may have discovered the HMS Endeavour in Newport...
Half-a-dozen dog triallists from this region remained in the running in three events when the Tux South Island and New Zealand dog trials ended for the day yesterday in Blenheim. Waimata’s Merv Utting and Prince came on to the top seven leaderboard...
The heat is back on at the Olympic Pool after a week of chilly water temperatures. Repairs have been completed to the water heating system, with the therapy pool back to normal this morning and the temperature rising in the 50-metre pool. Entry to the...
Safety in the forests is a matter of huge concern, as one of the nation’s most dangerous workplaces and a major employer in this district where, tragically, we have had many young men killed — three last year, of five fatalities nationwide. The...