Gisborne District Council wants to give three million “thank yous” to New Zealand, after more than that amount was raised for the community following two cyclones in six weeks. The devastating start to 2023 for Tairāwhiti is still being felt by...
A body has been located north of the Mōhaka River mouth in Tairāwhiti, police say. A statement said the body was recovered on Tuesday. “Formal identification is yet to take place, which may take several days. “The death is not being treated as...
Gisborne councillors have spoken positively about a new project aiming to bring a plethora of local sports under one roof. The Victoria Sport and Recreation Hub plans to combine netball, basketball, tennis, pickleball and squash under one banner...
Dot McCulloch is this year’s recipient of the Tairāwhiti Community Voice’s Nan Evans Award for “strength of spirit and dedicated work for your community”. The Brain Injury Association Gisborne nominated Dot McCulloch for her service to Care...
Valuations will be used by Gisborne District Council for rating purposes from July 1, 2024.
Fresh from selling Eastland Network on March 31, 2023 for $260 million — receiving net proceeds of $257.7m, $90m of which went to owner Trust Tairawhiti and the rest to reducing bank debt — Eastland Group has raised more than $250m selling a 50...
Roger Handford Ask not what your beach can do for you — ask what you can do for your beach. I am astonished our council sees fit to waste so much time and our money trying to figure out what to do about wood on the beaches. “We will fight them...
Barbara Lewis’s address to the NZNO public meeting was a courageous and excellent summary of the situation in many homes and rest homes in our country. I thank her for her passion, honesty and call-out to those who may look at the end of life as...
Space company Rocket Lab will continue tests to create a totally reusable rocket next year, with nine reusable missions planned for 2024. Speaking to the Nasa Spaceflight (NSF) live podcast on X yesterday, Rocket Lab founder and chief executive...
by Ric Stevens, Open Justice A council manager who complained a junior female colleague was “demeaning” him when she requested that he fill out a tax form went on to hold on to his employers’ confidential documents after he was sacked...
Passengers on the National Geographic Orion, the first cruise ship of the season to visit Gisborne on Monday, got up close and personal with farming life in New Zealand when they visited Maclaurin Farm at Hexton. More than 60 visitors, mainly from...
New Gisborne Volunteer Centre manager Ruby Walker brings to the job a background in business but with a strong affiliation to the not-for-profit sector. She started at the centre in September as volunteer service coordinator but with the retirement...
Last week’s heavy rainfall caused significant damage in the Whakaki, Nuhaka and Mahia areas, with 19 properties sustaining damage and receiving Rapid Building Assessment placards, Wairoa District Council says. At Mahia, a permanent home and...
An outbreak of the potentially fatal disease typhoid has ended with no further cases expected, Te Whatu Ora - Health NZ says. The outbreak among a team of overseas workers in Tairawhiti in September, ended with eight confirmed and three probable...
Karen Bruce was lost for words when she spotted a handbag on hit UK television show The Repair Shop exactly like one her mother had owned. The unique tooled Egyptian leather handbag was sent to her mother Jean in 1941 by her father, Wint Hopkinson...
Students at Te Hapara School were paying it forward on World Kindness Day yesterday. Principal Linda Savage said they marked the day by sending cards to retirement village residents and writing “thank you” letters to SPCA and Te Puku Or...
Nearly 90 groups scheduled to perform over the five-day festival.
Gisborne’s network of public toilets is at a “critical juncture” according to a Gisborne District Council report which has identified nearly half are overdue for renewal. The council is now developing a special plan to address issues plaguing...
An antagonistic relationship between siblings, threats by phone and text, and a man with a dubious past who slept right through a fatal house fire as it raged only 20 metres from his bed. Those were some of the key pieces of evidence heard by a jury...
Abuse of Gisborne District Council staff remains at “unacceptable” levels, a new report says. “Staff abuse continues following the regrettable incident when a dog in the pound was mistakenly put down in September contributing to increased...
Firefighters and St John ambulance officers did not have to travel far to get to a vehicle crash on Saturday evening — it happened just outside the city fire station. Two cars collided at the Palmerston Road-Bright Street roundabout at around...
A fault with 50kV powerlines in Stanley Road near Lyndhurst Street cut power to just under 7300 consumers in Gisborne city on Saturday afternoon. It happened at around 1.40pm. A crew from Fire and Emergency NZ stood by at the scene. “A third of...
Aged-care facility night shift nurse Barbara Lewis is another Tairāwhiti nurse to speak at a recent New Zealand Nurses Organisation public meeting where issues around pay, conditions and staffing levels were discussed. Below is an abridged version...
Despite having a day away for aircraft maintenance, while out-of-zone rescue helicopter services offered cover for our region, the Trust Tairāwhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter team flew a strong programme of eight completed missions last week. At...
It may be 105 years since the guns stopped firing, but the (Māori) Pioneer Battalion/Te Hokowhitu a Tū Battle Honours Flag, 1914-1918, made its official debut at Gisborne’s Combined Services Day service, held on Sunday. At the historic hour of...
Art studios and gardens at Wainui and Okitu welcomed hundreds of visitors for the She Shed Tour on Sunday with more than 30 artists taking part in what has become a popular annual event. People enjoyed a social day out in the sun perusing and...
A theatre group is “fed up” after a last-minute change in direction by Gisborne councillors left them with an uncertain future. For almost four years, Musical Theatre Gisborne has tried to get a clear answer from the council about its...
New Zealand Food Safety (NZFS) has extended an existing shellfish biotoxin warning from Cape Kidnappers up to East Cape. Latest testing of mussels from Tolaga Bay had shown the biotoxins had risen “dramatically”, said NZFS deputy...
Eastland Group has announced the sale of a 50 percent stake in Eastland Generation, its renewable energy generation business, to Japanese construction and engineering firm Obayashi Corporation.
As casualties mount in the devastating war in Gaza there are signs that the original sympathy felt for Israel after the brutal October 7 attack has dropped and sympathy for the beleaguered Palestinians in Gaza is rising. More than 300,000 people...
Manu Caddie Re: Blame narrative changing, November 11. Official policies and plans of successive local and central governments back to the 1860s neatly document the prevailing attitudes, assessments and aspirations for land use in the region. The...
Re Unkempt, not inviting — November 11 letter. I completely agree with Kim Pittar about the state of our CBD and have written in with the same complaint. I also thought how nice for cruise ships to come here, but not now. To be perfectly blunt...
Your editorial “Closing in on deal to form next government” strongly emphasised the power that NZ First has in negotiations to achieve where they want to sit in the new government. That position of power is potentially even stronger when we...
A big bouquet to Gisborne Musical Theatre for their latest production “School of Rock”. As a classical music-loving Superannuitant, I wasn’t sure what to expect, but discovered that there was plenty to enjoy in this fast-paced show. The sheer...