The Mōrere Hot Springs tourist attraction looks set to reopen this summer, after almost a year-long closure. The Department of Conservation-managed facility has been permanently closed since December 21 due to the failure of the septic system and...
Outward Bound sponsors and supporters gathered last night at Tairāwhiti Museum to celebrate the achievements of 14 secondary school rangatahi who attended the Tairāwhiti course. While at Outward Bound, the students pushed themselves to their...
Gisborne District Council wants to know where residents get their information about what the council is doing — is it through the GDC website, Facebook, the Gisborne Herald or somewhere else? In an effort to make sure the community is being...
Emergency services responded to two vehicle crashes in the city at the weekend. One car ended up on its roof in one incident. A car struck a power pole in the other. No one was injured in either incident. The first crash happened on Friday night...
Fireworks were the cause of a fire that damaged a small shed on a property in Karaka Street in Elgin on Sunday night. But apart from that Fire and Emergency NZ reported a “pretty quiet” cracker season in this district for them. On Saturday night...
A new $10 million state-of-the-art facility is helping chop up cyclone woody debris here and keeping sewage sludge out of landfills. Judds Composting’s new static aeration facility allows its existing composting operation to expand by taking...
The pleasure and pride was plain to see on the faces of current and former club members and supporters who attended the official opening of the $8 million Midway Surf Rescue Community Hub on Saturday. Close to 250 people were there to celebrate the...
The daughter of an elderly Whatatutu man on trial for his murder has a propensity to resort to arson when fuelled by anger and alcohol as an extreme response to relationship problems involving money
More than 10 years after the death of Ronald Russell Allison in a suspicious house fire at Te Karaka, a woman has gone on trial for his murder. Charged last November, the woman’s identity has been kept secret due to an interim suppression order...
The final election result has finally been revealed and Winston Peters is back at the centre of politics, with NZ First’s eight seats needed along with Act’s 11 for National to be able to form the next government. Special votes have once again...
I am appalled that the Mayor and presumably councll thinks ratepayers can accept paying more. This week council has accepted the money offered by government for Gabrielle recovery — and accepted without much quibble that ratepayers will have to...
My wife arrived home yesterday saying she had now “seen it all”. She arrived at the Wi Pere Street roundabout driving towards the Ballance St Village. Across from her was a small orangey-coloured car endeavouring to pass through the roundabout...
Re: Monster tsunami artwork stuff of Hollywood movies, Nov 1 letter. While the artistic impression published in The Gisborne Herald was rightly criticised, the commentary in this letter contains inaccuracies. Gisborne District Council has had...
We, the Poverty Bay Wairoa Women’s Institute, would like to thank The Gisborne Herald, More FM and HB Williams Memorial Library staff for supporting our awareness month. The smiling little faces as they left the library with their decorated jars...
Re: Bevan Moore’s letter of November 2 (Clean-up penalties). I concur with his comments. On a recent trip to the Australian state of Tasmania, my wife and I were greeted throughout our driving holiday with large signs on both the National Highway...
The summer Nipper action starts for the three Gisborne surf lifesaving clubs tomorrow morning when they begin their junior surf programmes. “We can’t wait to see you on the beach on Sunday,” is the message from all three clubs. Kaiaponi Farms...
Cushla Tangaere-Manuel has retained Ikaroa-Rāwhiti after official election results were confirmed yesterday, but she is now the only Labour MP holding one of the seven Māori electorates. The former East Coast Rugby Union chief executive and first...
Muka Tangata, the Workforce Development Council for the food and fibre sector, wants feedback on new, streamlined qualifications for forestry industry workers. The council has been working with industry on a review and development of the full suite...
Life Education Trust is bringing back the Five Buck a Duck Race in Gisborne after a break of almost three years. It will be held at 12.30pm on Saturday, November 18. The race is a game of chance in which numbered yellow plastic ducks are dropped...
by Michaela Gower, Hawke’s Bay Today Police are reviewing whether to continue a “high risk” search for Waikato man Matthew Knight, who went missing in Northern Hawke’s Bay just under a month ago. The 19-year-old was last seen in the...
Gisborne Woodturners Club members are expanding their community activities by making and donating wig stands in support of Look Good Feel Better and Gisborne-East Coast Cancer Society. “This is absolutely fabulous,” said Look Good Feel Better...
Around 10,000 km will be clocked up by a small aluminium boat criss-crossing the waters of Tūranganui-a-Kiwa this month. But the long days on board are all worth it for the crew of Tupaia, who are working hard to paint a picture of the seabed like...
Early last month in the small French town of Le Quesnoy the New Zealand Liberation Museum – Te Arawhata (The Ladder) was officially opened. The museum takes its name from the resourceful way Kiwi soldiers used a ladder to scale the walls of the...
Prime Minister-elect Christopher Luxon says he can now focus on forming a strong and stable government — and he will be doing it negotiating with Winston Peters. “Now we can get cracking,” Luxon told reporters at Parliament an hour after the...
There was a total of 674 sheep sent for sale yesterday at the Matawhero saleyards and the yarding consisted mainly of old season prime lambs and new season store lambs. The consignment of 382 store, freshly weaned, black face lambs from Kainga Farm...
The NZ Farm Environment Trust in association with Beef + Lamb New Zealand will stage a ‘Farming for the Future’ seminar’ in Gisborne on Monday, entitled ‘A celebration of sustainability.’ It will be an evening of conversation and...
Discovering sexually explicit pictures of his previous girlfriend on her partner’s phone angered a woman so much that she posted them to several online sites. The offending continued even after police had charged her for it, Gisborne District...
Jack Marshall There’s a saying that holds true: if it ain’t measured, it ain’t managed. Those who follow national news may have noticed that Wellington has recently imposed level-one water restrictions despite the torrential downpours. What?...
Much of our public service structure is not fit for purpose and this compounds a wider malaise of low productivity in our economy, Rob Campbell writes in a recent opinion piece in the Post. The former chair of Te Whatu Ora - Health NZ — who has an...
Re: Meng Foon’s seawall. Bevan, while you may be right about the need for less red tape (October 31 letter), the fact of the matter is Meng Foon thought he could just do as he pleased and get away with it. While you say this is not much different...
Re: Base solutions on facts, ignore agendas — November 1 column and comment trail. The theme of Clive’s column is not about erosion, its prevention or the introduction of enhanced logging disciplines, which are the real issues. Instead, he...
October was Women’s Insitute Awareness month and for Federation members of the Poverty Bay branch, it was all about baking. They gave out home-made biscuits to those attending the Barleycorn concert at the Salvation Army Citadel on the Day for...
The lambing season across Tairāwhiti has ended and with docking nearly finished too, indications are lambing has been good for the region’s farmers. Agfirst consultant Peter Andrew said there was above average ewe scanning this season. “We have...
Bayleys may be in the business of selling real estate, but for this long-standing national brand, it’s all about the people. Bayleys Gisborne is this month celebrating its 25th year in business. Owner and managing director Simon Bousfield heads...