After a number of recent incidents causing injury at the inner harbour boat ramp, one of them to myself, I want to call out Gisborne District Council and its contracted staff over the inadequacy of maintaining the ramp — ie, cleaning it of slime...
It seems it is almost impossible to obtain insurance for your home — even though homes are being repaired because of a natural disaster, and no fault of the home owner. What are home owners supposed to do? If homes can’t be insured, New Zealand...
With all the token attempts at feeding the starving Palestinians in Gaza by parachuting food and medical supplies to them, and the death and injury toll steadily mounting, why is there still no serious discussion about opening the border gates at...
Gisborne Hospital’s “skills-a-thon” could be a first for the country and is attracting plenty of attention. Health NZ Tairāwhiti education team leader Ondrea Gooch said the initial idea was to showcase staff displaying their skills and...
Dozens of people have found employment and dozens more started training through the Tairāwhiti Jobs and Skills Hub, and the Ministry of Social Development says that is just the beginning. The Tairāwhiti Jobs and Skills Hub opened in October last...
A market is planned for Tolaga Bay’s main street on Easter Saturday, March 30. Following the surprise success of the Waitangi Day Markets, this one is destined to be even bigger. Organiser Reuben Kaa said the number of inquiries for stall tables...
by Ryan O’Sullivan Hiking enthusiasts for the Lake Waikaremoana Great Walk will have to pull out some extra coins from their wallets. The Department of Conservation (DoC) is increasing the price of their Great Walk facilities, including...
by Ben Ulisse In a combined effort by local iwi and Wairoa Search and Rescue last Thursday, a 62-year-old woman was flown to Gisborne Hospital after sustaining injuries from a fall whie on the Waikaremoana Great Walk. The woman slipped and fell...
Consultation on Gisborne District Council’s 2024-2027 Three Year Plan (3YP) has opened this week and lasts for four weeks, until April 19. A series of “community conversations” will be held around the region to discuss the 3YP, starting from...
A draft Navigation Safety Bylaw, approved by Gisborne district councillors for public consultation, applies to all navigable waters throughout the district. Councillor Aubrey Ria, speaking at a council extraordinary meeting, asked if the council...
Two Gisborne-raised sisters will feature on TVNZ’s Country Calendar on Sunday. They are Kate Cullwick and Prue Watson, and Sunday’s episode will focus on Kate’s farms, and the sisters’ business, Foxtrot Home. Their online natural homewares...
Firefighters were back at the site of the major vegetation fire at Port Awanui near Tikitiki yesterday and it may be a day or two before they will be able to declare it definitely out. The blaze started in driftwood on the nearby beach on Monday...
For Larisa Hockey, long Covid has been a debilitating condition she has endured for the past three years.
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Youngsters showed promise and older hands showed a bit of class as Gisborne football teams had a pre-season hit-out in the Geoff Logan Memorial Tournament at Childers Road Reserve on Saturday. Thistle’s Central Federation League team won a hotly...
Tūranga FM YMP 1 came out on top again in the Sutherland Auto-sponsored Kathleen Henderson netball tournament at the Victoria Domain courts on Saturday. “It was a great day at the courts to get our year underway,” centre manager Allisa Hall...
Tolaga Bay A Scottish name topped the prize list on Ireland’s day at Tolaga Bay’s long-awaited opening day tournament. Gary McLean won the men’s stableford on a St Patricks’ Day when more beer than Guinness flowed on Tolaga Bay’s 19th at...
Gisborne’s Combined Secondary Schools Orchestra got a bit of helping hand last weekend when they received expert tutoring from musicians from the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.
Catriona Tipene Rann and Ryan Cundy bring a show for the whole family with Land of the Long Long Drive. And it will be a long long drive of over 6000 kilometres for the cast and crew of the company, as they take their show on the road with Arts on...
Expect some top notch live music to go with the cold brews at the 5th Annual Gisborne Beer Festival coming to the Gisborne Soundshell on Easter Saturday. Festival-goers are promised a selection of beers from some of New Zealand’s top breweries and...
Rehearsals are well under way for the Gisborne Choral Society’s first concert of the year, scheduled for May 26. It will be a collection of folk songs and spirituals, with a mixture of fun pieces and sentimental favourites. One item that is...
Renewed calls by dentists for a ban on soft drinks in schools should be heeded, backed up as they are by damning statistics. New Zealand Dental Association spokesman Dr Rob Beaglehole says soft drinks are “decimating” the country’s children...
Bob Hughes Re: Following, questioning — March 20. Here, Simin Williams supports Iain Boyle’s “Science debate overdue” letter and I explain the Media Council findings of the Neil Henderson against The Gisborne Herald case of 2015. “The...
Re: Petitioners slam regulatory caution, demand swift land use rule overhaul — March 19 story. Mana Taio Tairāwhiti are out of line calling for immediate changes to land use in our region. Yes, we need to make changes to both forestry and...
Gisborne District Council is backing a proposal from Regional and Unitary Councils Aotearoa - Te Uru Kahika that seeks urgent government funding for flood protection work. The chairs of 10 of the 11 regional councils and four of the six unitary...
The Department of Conservation is appealing for information from the public after a protected great white shark was found decapitated on Māhia beach last Friday. The incident comes just weeks after an attempted pygmy sperm whale refloat coincided...
The heavy southerly swell in Turanganui-a-Kiwa/Poverty Bay forced the cancellation of the cruise ship Noordam’s visit to Gisborne yesterday. A ships’ agent said the skipper decided on Tuesday that sea conditions would be too difficult. The big...
Genesis energy company shared its experience of Cyclone Gabrielle during a media tour of the Lake Waikaremoana Power Station last Thursday. The company was keen to dispel rumours that they “opened the floodgates”, causing the flooding of Wairo...
Tūhoe say Genesis has ignored a promise to engage with them on an invasive weed growing in Lake Waikaremoana, in northern Hawke’s Bay. “We spoke to them, we wrote to them, and they ignored any response,” a Tūhoe iwi representative said. The...
In 1936 a Leap Year proposal of marriage to a Gisborne nonagenarian gained attention in newspapers in both new Zealand and Australia. The newspaper articles generated further marriage proposals, and the recipient — 97-year-old Isaiah McSaveney —...
A historic olive tree planted by East Coast identity Hosea Manuel in the mid-1850s has survived the fire that burned around 10 hectares at Port Awanui near Tikitiki this week. However, several ancient pohutukawa were not so fortunate and were...
Wairoa cancer patients are now travelling a matter of minutes as opposed to hours to get chemotherapy treatment. And it’s happened because of the advocacy of a group of Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora nurses and Cyclone Gabrielle. Within 10 days...
Gisborne’s three clubs won more than 20 national titles between them over the three days of the New Zealand surf lifesaving championships at Mount Maunganui last weekend
New rules are being proposed for Gisborne’s cemeteries, including a ban on offensive headstones.