The speed limit in parts of the Wairoa township is set to be lowered following Wairoa District Council’s (WDC) adoption of an interim speed management plan last month. With 23 people making submissions, the council table has three speed limit...
Wainui Beach is among the category finalists in The New Zealand Herald Travel section’s annual best beach competition. Wainui has been named among the 10 finalists for best surf beach. The Herald Travel contest features five categories — best...
2024 is going be “our year”, says Gisborne Mayor Rehette Stoltz after announcing a major regional summit bringing together iwi, civic, community and business leaders and senior government ministers.
Māori singer/songwriter Allana Goldsmith (Ngāti Porou and Ngāi Tai) will play her distinctive jazz music at Wrights Winery’s Vino & Vibes on the last weekend of January with British jazz pianist Dr Mark Baynes and percussionist Miguel...
PAULNACHE gallery presents a spliced selection of significant paintings by leading contemporary artist John Walsh and emerging Wairoa-based artist Joanna Abraham Joseph, in response to the dramatic cyclone and climate change events felt around the...
THIS WEEK Build-a-Band Smash Palace every Thursday. Bring your friends along for a friendly jam session. Free, starts at 7pm. Karaoke Expect a fun evening as patrons belt out the tunes. Share your talent with friends at Breakers’ Jandal Bar every...
by Jocelyn Noveck, AP The first Mean Girls, that compulsively watchable high-school-based social satire by Tina Fey, came out in 2004. The Broadway musical opened in 2018. Now it’s 2024, and we have a screen adaptation of the theatre adaptation...
Australian clubs are recognising the raw potential of union players in our own backyard and enticing more of them over the Tasman. Poverty Bay and YMP forward Hayze Nepia will depart New Zealand shores in March after finalising a 12-month contract...
Valerie Grace led the way as Waikohu members made their mark at the 86th Maori National Golf Tournament hosted by Poneke last week. Grace won the 72-hole net title in the golden girls division played on the Te Marua course in Upper Hutt. Her 271...
Paddy Stewart travelled all the way from Gisborne to Christchurch to take part in an invitational tournament . . . and won it. He teamed up with an old Canterbury bowling mate, Kerry Becks, to win the Rawleigh’s Stewart Buttar Invitation Burnside...
Poverty Bay Bowling Club's year got off to a great start with a new format for the Graham Shield Classic Optional Tournament. Fourteen teams of four players entered, so 56 players enjoyed a great atmosphere and good competition on a wonderful summer...
The plot has thickened ahead of Round 4 of the T15 Walker Shield. The plot-twist revolves around Coastal Concrete Old Boys' Rugby — who trailed Bollywood High School Old Boys' Rugby by 118 runs at the end of Day 1, Round 1 in the DJ Barry Cup...
Masters 75 women 500m final 3rd, Diane Reilly: Horouta, 3:23.50; 6th, Kathy Sheldrake: Horouta, 3:37.22. Master 70 men W1 500m Final 10th, Dave Langford: Horouta, 3:09.49; 12th, Val Irwin: Horouta, 3:17.05. Master 70 women W1 500m 2nd, Marianne...
The first political poll of the year has shown growing support for National and new Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, and a slump in support for Labour leader Chris Hipkins. National was on 41 percent support, up from 36.5 percent in a poll by the...
Simin Williams Re: IDF ‘most moral army in the world’, January 17 column. Patrick Cooper asks, “Does the Israeli Defence Force deliberately rape, torture and kill Palestinian civilians”? The answer is a definite yes and much more. These are...
Seeing her club back on the water for the waka ama sprint nationals on Lake Karāpiro this week was an overwhelming sight For Wairoa’s Christina Stockman. Eleven months ago, Cyclone Gabrielle all but destroyed any dreams of competing when...
Rocket Lab’s Māhia spaceport swings into action today with the first of about 20 launches planned for this year. The Four of a Kind mission will deploy four space situational awareness (SSA) satellites for Spire Global’s customer NorthStar...
Overnight resurfacing work at the Wharerātās on State Highway 2 gets under way on Monday. That stretch of road will close each night at 8pm and reopen at 5am each day in time for early commuter traffic to pass through. Subject to the weather, full...
Gisborne District Council and Biosecurity NZ are asking residents to follow “check, clean, dry” guidelines to stop the spread of the invasive freshwater gold clam. GDC liveable communities director Michele Frey says the clam (Corbicul...
Hangaroa, Tiniroto and Ruakituri residents impacted by the closure of Tiniroto Road at the Hangaroa Bluffs after Cyclone Gabrielle will meet Gisborne District Council staff and councillors today from 4pm in the Tiniroto Hall. One of the residents...
As temperatures heat up in the district, the reminder to keep animals — both small and large — hydrated is more important than ever. A recent post on a local social media site highlighting the concern of a horse tethered to a side fence on...
There are just 51 days to go. Relay for Life is back in 2024 and coming up fast on March 9 and 10. From January 30, teams already registered (including members) will be able to select their preferred site. Gisborne-East Coast Cancer Society’s...
Police have made an arrest and charged a man in relation to a serious assault in Māhia during a disorder incident in the early hours of January 1. A 34-year-old man was knocked unconscious and suffered facial injuries after he tried to break up an...
There are indications a tropical cyclone could be headed towards the North Island at the end of next week, threatening more bad weather for the Gisborne-East Cape region. Climate and weather agencies across the south-east Pacific region are keeping...
December 14 was a busy day for the district’s midwives with six babies born on that day. They were among 50 pēpi born in December, according to Te Whatu Ora-Tairāwhiti figures. The babies were a perfect split of sex — 25 boys and 25 girls...
Cedenco’s annual sweetcorn harvest has been under way for a week and agronomy manager David Oudes says the crop quality has been “better than expected”. Harvesters were busy at work at Poynter Road in Te Karaka yesterday. “We’ve been in...
Tickets are still available for this weekend’s Summer Frequencies music event which the promoter says is one of the most affordable festivals in New Zealand. Headline acts include Kora and Australian hip hop band HP Boyz from Melbourne as well as...
Drink-drive checkpoints staged around the Gisborne-Wairoa districts last weekend netted just 10 drivers over the limit out of around 3000 drivers tested.
DOME CINEMA The New Boy An Aboriginal Australian orphan boy is brought into a Christian monastery run by a renegade nun. There he begins to question his faith and loyalty to his heritage. Stars Cate Blanchett and Aswan Reid. Two Tickets to Greece...
Champion of Champions titles for saloons, production saloons and sidecars produced an outstanding night of hard and fast racing at Gisborne Speedway Club’s meeting on Saturday night. But the saloons definitely took the cake. Daniel Cook, behind...
Day 1 of Round 1 in local cricket’s DJ Barry Cup ended with High School Old Boys and Horouta Te Waka well placed. David Situ’s Breakers Horouta side took four competition points for their hard-earned first-innings lead against Gisborne Boys’...
Tairāwhiti paddlers enjoyed a golden day at the Waka Ama New Zealand national sprint championships on Lake Karapiro yesterday. The J16 women’s crew Puhi Kaiariki, of Self Storage Gisborne Horouta Waka Hoe Club, won the W6 1000-metre final (with...
by Doug Laing, Hawke’s Bay Today Former No. 1-ranked senior shearer Lionel Taumata finally cracked a win in the open class, as the post-Christmas stage of the 2023-2024 shearing sports season kicked off at the Duvauchelle A & P Show on...