JUDGE Warren Cathcart told a woman in Gisborne District Court that she was lucky not to have killed her partner when she stabbed him in the left side of his chest, nicking his lung. Sarah Colleen Gray, 22, was sentenced to 19 months imprisonment but...
A Christmas market with a difference took place on Saturday at the Albert Cox Skatepark — all the stall holders were under the age of 18. The fine weather coupled with the delicious offerings on sale made for a successful market and organiser Cain...
JACK Faulkner had a good season in goal for Gisborne United in Pacific Premiership football this year, but he is not putting his feet up with the onset of warmer weather. He is an all-rounder for Gisborne Boys’ High School in local cricket, and is...
A lack of ability to enforce bylaws creates “perennial” issues, says a senior Gisborne District Council staff member. Senior policy adviser Chris Gilmore made the comments at a Sustainable Tairāwhiti meeting two weeks ago where approval was...
An American teenager was murdered and her body buried on Kaiti Hill, letters sent to police and The Gisborne Herald claim. Police have started an inquiry after receiving the letter three weeks ago. The Herald received a similarly-worded letter...
Gisborne primary and intermediate school principals and teachers will strike tomorrow to send a message to the Government that they are not satisfied with the offer on the table. This is part of a nationwide strike that started in Auckland today and...
It's way past time for this Government to get tough on the increasing violent crime in this country. This weekend a dairy worker is once again attacked and loses fingers to a machete-wielding scumbag. Labour seems to be able to change laws pretty...
Come on Jacinda, you visit Turanganui a Kiwa and pay your respects to another iwi that has no mana whenua or mana moana in our rohe. Labour’s Maori caucus should have known better.“Turanga Tangata Rite,Turanga Ararau,Turanga Makaurau,Turang...
A GISBORNE mother has sounded a warning after a phone charger malfunctioned and caused a fire in her son's bedroom. The teenager's iPhone SE was charging on a bed in the sleepoout earlier this month.“My son had fallen asleep and was woken by the...
A NEW action plan has been launched designed to help manage parasite resistance to drenches in New Zealand. Encouraging the responsible marketing and sales of drench, more accurate and easier parasite testing, research to demonstrate the costs and...
JAMES Blackburne was an inquisitive child, always wanting to know how things worked.“I used to pull things apart,” says James, whose career in architecture took him in quite the opposite direction.“I got into trouble with my father when I took...
COULD the moody botanical artwork a Gisborne couple hung on their wall in TV reality show The Block have secured a win for Stu Watts and Amy Moore in the TV reality show’s first challenge? We’ll never know — but having been allocated the do-up...
CRICKET by Ben O’Brien-LeafBittersweet — the Poverty Bay boys’ junior secondary schools team were thrilled to play their last cricket game of the Northern Districts tournament at Rotorua’s chief ground, Smallbone Park, but disappointed to...
THE Gisborne-East Coast branch of the New Zealand Farm Forestry Association believes a field day tomorrow will benefit the whole commercial forestry industry when it comes to the right tree in the right place on East Coast steep hill country. The...
The Ministry of Education (MoE) has recently published a study showing that computer or tablet-based learning in Year 5 students reduces reading enjoyment, as measured by data from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study. It also showed...
“Residential schools” were a common feature of European settler societies (except New Zealand) until quite late in the 20th century, and their purpose was not just to educate but to “deracinate” their aboriginal pupils: that is, to cut them...
There is an important display at the Poverty Bay A&P Show this week that Tairāwhiti Civil Defence Emergency Management wants everyone in the community to see. It's an emergency pod — a six-metre shipping container packed with emergency equipment...
A report to the council’s Finance and Audit committee tomorrow says capital expenditure for the first six months of this financial year was $12.4 million against a budgeted $18m — 69 percent of what was forecast — while a net surplus of $2.8m...
The region's Covid-19 vaccination programme will “stretch outside the national guidance” set by the Government and rural residents will not be disadvantaged, Hauora Tairawhiti board chairwoman Kim Ngarimu says. The vaccination of front-line...
There is a salutary lesson for us all in how our country and much of the world has responded to the coronavirus pandemic: that economies will be shut down to protect elderly and other vulnerable citizens from a highly-contagious disease that will...
POLICE made four arrests in the early hours of this morning after a dog team tracked down four people in relation to a stolen motor vehicle found in Gisborne city. The car was spotted in the city centre by a police patrol at around 2am.“The people...
A GradeIndividual highlights180s: Tahuna Irwin 3, Toby Ratapu (Falcons); Ihaka Kaio-Wynyard 2, Te Kotahi Kaio, Corey Kaio (Young Guns); John White 2 (Tigers); Matty Reedy 2, Junior Akurangi (Done & Dusted).Highest start, men (180): Junior Akurangi...
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GISBORNE will celebrate Chinese New Year this Sunday with a special get-together at the Chinese Hall on Disraeli Street. Attendees will bring a dish for a pot luck lunch to the celebration organised by the Gisborne Branch of the Chinese...
Saturday, August 62016 NZ Concert Band Festival, 9am - 4.30pm, War Memorial Theatre, $5. Gisborne Unity Theatreall-woman production of three short plays, including Towpath, Whether I Fall, and a devised work about women bringing up mokopuna. 3pm...
Ikaroa-Rawhiti MP Meka Whaitiri says the Government is backing regional New Zealand by continuing to create opportunities for rangatahi to get into employment, education or training. She was speaking after the Government announced the next tranch of...
COOLER, dry conditions dominated November’s weather in the Gisborne region, and the district remains on the edge of drought. Figures from MetService and Niwa (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research) show rainfall was half the 30-year...
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Vaccination providers say whānau efforts are behind Tairāwhiti's eligible Māori population inching closer to the 90 percent partially-vaccinated milestone. Turanga Health chief executive Reweti Ropiha said a range of whānau efforts were behind...
Tairawhiti youngsters will be snuggly and warm in their pyjamas over winter, thanks to the community's best-ever Jammies 4 June fundraiser. J4J Gizzy received 768 brand new pairs of PJs and over 200 other items, including blankets, beanies, socks...
Gisborne Speedway Club has nervous eyes on the heavens as it hosts the New Zealand sidecar championships, with rain likely to have an impact. A field of 30 bikes will contest the national sidecars title and the club has organised two nights of strong...
For the first time I'm aware, Whataupoko Reserve is closed to all walkers because the council's land clearing has stripped decades of stabilising vegetation. Mud has sloughed down slopes from 7kms of high-density cycle-trails. I would have thought...
MULTIPLE shearing champion John Kirkpatrick has bounced back to winning form after a year off with injury. The 45-year-old Napier gun returned to original home Gisborne territory to win a four-man, 15-sheep open final at the Poverty Bay Show on...
NEARLY 100 dogs have been desexed so far through the Fred Lewis Enterprise Foundation desexing project. Enterprise Motor Group last month committed to donating $600,000 over the next five years as the major sponsor of the foundation for the programme...