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...
by Jack Ward All eyes are set on 2025 for the Wairoa A&P Society when they plan to return with a full-scale Show. Instead of the Show next year, the society has decided on a smaller-scale fair, with details still to be finalised. The difficult...
There was a total clearance of the 3478 freshly weaned lambs at the Matawhero saleyards yesterday, trucked in from Totangi Farm Ltd at Ngatapa. Prices ranged from $90 down to $30 for some later-born ones, averaging $64.80. The black face lambs, out...
Raw sewage bubbling up from the ground, an inaccessible driveway, and a landlord who didn’t want to fix things, ruined a family’s eight-year experience of their rented rural cottage. This year they went to the Tenancy Tribunal, which largely...
Around three dozen firefighters from around the country will take part in the Gizzy Combat Challenge on Saturday in the Marina carpark. The fitness challenge involves, among other things, scaling a six-storey structure carrying an 18kg fire-hose...
After their vulnerabilities were exposed during Cyclone Gabrielle, Pasifika men working in the region’s orchards, vineyards and crops are better connected to welfare and health services, thanks to Tūranga Health. Tūranga Health continues to...
The new $8 million Midway Surf Rescue Community Hub will be officially opened tomorrow with an invited crowd of around 250 people expected for the event. A range of speakers will include Mayor Rehette Stoltz, Shannon Williams from Kānoa (the...
Roses and irises of all colours will fill the Farmers Air Showgrounds Event Centre this weekend for the annual Poverty Bay Horticultural Society Summer Show. Society president Wendy Davies took a moment this week to enjoy the heady fragrance of the...
'This year, we are forecasting an operational deficit of around $700,000.'
Many people are worried about what the next Government’s approach will be to Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and the possibility of a divisive referendum on the principles of the Treaty. On the campaign trail, Christopher Luxon said National did not support...
by Ran Yaakoby Ambassador of Israel to New Zealand Hamas’s unprecedented massacre of Israelis on October 7th may have elated its supporters in Gaza and abroad, and it certainly delighted this terrorist organisation’s sponsors in Iran, but it...
With dozens of Palestinians killed in the latest Israeli attack on Jabalia refugee camp, our political leaders must act. PSNA has written to caretaker PM Chris Hipkins and incoming PM Christopher Luxon (yesterday) urging the following steps be taken...
An international team of scientists are setting off on a voyage to paint a clearer picture of our earthquake and tsunami risk from New Zealand’s largest and most active fault, the Hikurangi Subduction Zone. New Zealand is dotted with earthquake...
From the beginning of the month yesterday and through summer, MetService will be issuing heat alerts across New Zealand. This is the third year that MetService has trialled alerts to help New Zealanders plan and prepare for extreme heat, alongside...
The district’s croppers have been hard at work with their summer planting programmes and encouraged by the results so far, while grape and kiwifruit growers have also taken heart from the way their crops are shaping up. The recent rain slowed up...
"In the end, I consider you a real danger to women.” That’s what Judge Warren Cathcart told a man with a history of domestic violence whose latest offence was to beat up his partner after going to her house one night uninvited, waking her up...
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency will start resurfacing road works on State Highway 2 in the Matawai area today due to the wet weather forcing a further postponement. The work was to have commenced yesterday. It will involve the closure of SH2 north...
Five local students were awarded scholarships from the Walter William McLean Educational Trust this week. The scholarships are worth $5000 and are to help students with their studies in 2024. Glenys Talivai, CEO of the Public Trust, which manages...
Clouds of sea fog rolled into Wainui Beach yesterday afternoon as the MetService issued a severe thunderstorm watch over much of the East Coast. Heavy rain and some hail was predicted, with the risk of a small tornado or funnel cloud. The same se...