Seal season is here. Leave them to rest. That is the message from East Coast Department of Conservation. DoC biodiversity ranger Jamie Quirk says while seals are marine mammals, they spend a lot of their time on land, particularly between June and...

I would like the train back. I always used to see the train come to Gisborne and I am missing it dearly. I attend Rail Action Group meetings and I am a great fan of trains. I will never give up. There are too many trucks on the roads. They wreck our...

Thistle massive can almost put the champagne on ice after the penultimate Saturday of Gisborne Championship Division 1 football. Thistle drew with Wainui Demons 5-all on the field but won the match off it after Central Football upheld...

Re: Kind lady saved the day, December 3 letter. This is a really lovely story of what can happen in our little town. We would all agree, this is the difference between what we are and the other places around the world and New Zealand that are...

Covid-19 vaccination rates here are waning at the wrong time, Health NZ says. A Health NZ Tairāwhiti spokeswoman said there were 80 cases of Covid-19 reported on Friday, 33 on Saturday and 54 cases yesterday. Six people with Covid-19 were in...

A monthly series of concerts by musicians and student pianists has provided a welcome respite from winter chills at Professor Jack Richards' Okitu residence, Tiromoana. In conjunction with Musica Viva, the local chapter of Chamber Music New Zealand...

THE First Light Kai street food festival will be staged again in the New Year at the same time and the same place as the highly successful inaugural event in January this year. Businesses interested in being part of it have been encouraged to...

Even though there are no official meetings this week, there is a lot happening around town. It is all go with the resealing of Gladstone Road so, if possible, park closer to the town clock side of town this week and walk to the shops closer to Peel...

Hemi Porou is a familiar face outside Countdown where he regularly busks but if anyone marches to the beat of his own drum, guitar, double bass, euphonium, bagpipes, it is the Gisborne multi-instrumentalist. Hemi talks to Mark Peters about the...

'I was absolutely terrified but I told myself not to panic'

DRIVING positive values into the hearts and minds of New Zealand school children came by way of a Vodafone Warriors truck in this district on Tuesday. The Mac Superline emblazoned with the Warriors logo is New Zealand’s biggest mobile classroom and...

Rocket Lab's most controversial Mahia launch to date is scheduled to take place from tomorrow. The US-based space company will open daily launch windows from 11.20am tomorrow through to March 31. The mission, dubbed They Go Up So Fast, will deploy...

A LIFE-LONG passion for textiles and fabrics has led to the award of a prestigious medal to former Gisborne woman Raechel Laing. As director of Otago University’s clothing and textiles centre, Professor Laing researches the structure and...

This region has already gone through a total change in land use for environmental reasons, aimed at protecting our diminishing resource base. We are now having to look at helping to save the planet through “world-first” agricultural emissions...

Nine more log ships, two more cruise ships to arrive this month

TAYLER Reid’s coach says his win in race 2 of the National Elite Series at Takapuna was a bonus and the result of “smart decisions”.“The biggest thing for us was Tayler making smart decisions, something we have been working on,” said...

THE last month of spring is a busy one in the garden with beautiful roses in bloom, ripening fruit, vegetables and herbs growing rapidly, and lush green lawns. November is a lovely time to pick fresh flowers from your garden. Alstroemerias last for...

Receiving medications proved a problem for East Coast patients and pharmacies during last week's storm. Horouta Pharmacy and Gordon's Pharmacy both deliver prescriptions twice a day to various Coast locations, but the service was disrupted when State...

RESPONDING to the anger caused by its plans to use an overhead cable to bring Ultra Fast Broadband to Okitu, telecommunications company Chorus today announced it was putting a temporary halt to planned work. A resource consent review of the plan to...

Rosa Briant is a Gizzy girl and former teacher who sold up and dedicated her life to travelling the world. Currently on her fifth continent her goal is to step foot on all seven and share the experiences, the growth, the ups and the downs, through...

Jags aim to finish on a winning note

Fresh from $152.7 million of Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) spending announced for this region, and with projected costs for the Waipaoa Flood Control Upgrade now double the $16.4m budgeted in the Long-Term Plan — after river modelling refinements...

There are no official council meetings this week, but the council's Regulatory Hearings committee will be hearing submissions on the draft Freedom Camping Bylaw 2021 on Wednesday. Consultation on this bylaw ran from March 1 to April 5, 2021...

Kayaker Quaid Thompson is back in Gisborne after a whirlwind year of training and competing at the highest level in an ongoing pandemic. It hasn't been an easy 2021 for Thompson, who missed a month of preparation for the national championships after...

GISBORNE rugby fans are holding their breaths for tomorrow's big match and showing their support for the team. What's likely is that just like last week's match against France, the streets will be empty when the teams meet tomorrow morning our time

Some Gisborne-East Coast residents have expressed concerns about risks to the environment after the government-initiated consultation process on future oil and gas exploration in northern parts of the East Coast Basin. These concerns relate to the...

A WOMAN pleaded guilty to three driving charges in Gisborne District Court, and the court was told the driving with excess blood alcohol charge was her fourth and the most serious of the present charges. Andrea Lyn Dawn Eva Paul was charged with...

THE occupant of a house died in a fire in Wairoa last night. Police and Fire and Emergency NZ staff were called to the house in Kiwi Road, Wairoa. The scene was guarded overnight. Examination of the house remains will be undertaken again this...