Troy Vincent McHugh was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment for the shooting of Gisborne Black Power identity Douglas "Din" Witeri last year.

A Gisborne woman stood dumbstruck with tears rolling down her cheeks when she heard she had won Lotto's Big Wednesday not once, but twice.

Fine dining is just one fun way to keep busy in Gizzy, writes Megan Singleton.

A Gisborne teenager told police he had been abused for years by his CYF-appointed caregiver, who was so cruel she knocked out his teeth with a knife-sharpening steel.

A man abused as a ward of the state 25 years ago is incensed about the $12,000 compensation offer made to him, saying it feels 'like a kick in the guts'.

A Nepalese man living in Gisborne has been moved to tears by the generosity of a man who paid for him to fly to be with his homeless sisters.

A grandmother risked her own life to save six children from her burning home in Gisborne last night, with the family 'moments from catastrophe'.

There were emotional scenes on the East Coast north of Gisborne yesterday afternoon as divers located and recovered missing Malaysian man Kuan Loon Loh.

A young English tourist is being praised for trying to save a Malaysian man who is believed drowned after jumping off the Tolaga Bay wharf on the East Coast.

There's a famous Ngati Porou saying that the tribe's lonely mountain, Hikurangi, does not move anywhere.

Rhythm and Vines music festival organisers say they expect changes for the better after this summer's mayhem at BW campgrounds on New Year's Eve.

Scientists hope a proposal to drill the seabed off New Zealand's east coast will unlock the secrets behind earthquakes, such as one which wreaked havoc in Japan six years ago.

Eighteen of the young men arrested in Gisborne after mayhem at the beachside BW campground on New Year's Eve will face court action.

Three exhausted Gisborne men are lucky to be alive after the boat they were in overturned and they spent three hours in the sea in Poverty Bay before a chance rescue by a passing vessel.

The driver of a bulldozer jumped for his life yesterday afternoon when it tipped over and rolled down a bank in a forestry block on the Whakarau Road near Te Karaka.

The technology thought to have been used to instigate Gisborne's New Year's Eve riot is now being turned against the ringleaders.

Ben Sargent has been remembered as a fun-loving, sporting, and well-loved youngster with his whole life ahead of him.

A young man who died trying to jump from a light pole into a Gisborne swimming pool had spent the afternoon playing football and enjoying a few drinks with friends.

A 20 year-old man is dead after he tried jumping from a light pole into a swimming pool last night.