A large landslide swept away a section of road between Wairoa and Gisborne on Tuesday night, cutting off about 1500 residents in the Hangaroa area. Police said the section of Tiniroto Road between Rockhill Road and Parikanapa Road is impassable. The...
The new Hollywood Bridge connecting residents at the start of Bushy Knoll Road was officially opened by Mayor Rehette Stoltz on Monday. The wide single-lane Bailey bridge spans the Hangaroa River and replaces the old Hollywood Bridge. It has...
Early voting is under way and passionate people are frantically trying to drum up support for their side, even when the polls suggest it’s a lost cause, in what has been a controversial and sometimes bitter and divisive campaign where politics has...
Re: Doing what they want? September 26 letter. Bonjour Simin. Let me deconstruct this scenario for you, and also some other disgruntled readers — Tahi: TAT (Tairāwhiti Adventure Trust), as a volunteer charity, built and own the skatepark and pump...
The matter of a dog being wrongly put down cannot be simply swept under the carpet by a settlement between the district council and the dog’s owners. Irrespective of whether the enormous publicity of this incident was out of all proportion, the...
I recently took a walk around the light show installation down by the museum/council and later went to see it at night. This was very well done. Humans are very imaginative in terms of concepts and their interpretation and I found this reflected...
I think there are many workers who don’t know about their right to take time off to vote, if necessary. The Electoral Act 1993 states: “Subject to the provisions of this section, on the polling day at any election every employer shall allow...
Learning on the job from a passionate team helped Three Rivers Medical operations manager Lisa Hamblin to a national award. She was named practice manager of the year at the Practice Managers and Administrators Association of New Zealand (PMMANZ)...
A fortnight before giving evidence in court against the gunman who shot and killed a woman on Titoki Street, a nearby resident was herself found with a firearm. Lena Mae Perrett, 45, gave evidence on May 18, this year, in the High Court jury trial...
National Party candidate for East Coast Dana Kirkpatrick cast her vote at the polling booth in Treble Court on Monday. She was one of 56,557 Kiwis who voted on day one of advanced voting. That compares to 105,489 votes cast on the first day of the...
There are 20 active cases of Covid-19 in Tairawhiti. The latest Te Whatu Ora figures, up to midnight on Sunday, show no reported deaths from Covid in Tairāwhiti in the past week. In all, 20 deaths and 25,280 cases of Covid-19 have been recorded in...
New rules for exotic tree plantations released yesterday, have been welcomed by Mana Taiao Tairāwhiti, the group responsible for the Government commissioning a Ministerial inquiry into land use in Tairāwhiti. Changes to the National Environmental...
A Royal Commission seeking to strengthen the country’s response to future pandemics has paid an action-packed visit to Tairāwhiti. Te Tira Ārai Uratā (NZ Royal Commission Covid-19 Lessons Learned) was in Gisborne last Thursday to hear feedback...
Scientific research into Cyclone Gabrielle’s effects on the seabed around the Gisborne coast has been largely thwarted by more bad weather. The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa) is studying the ocean off Tairāwhiti and...
Gisborne District Council contractors have started repairing its wastewater outfall pipe, at popular surfing spot The Pipe, at Midway Beach. The pipe was damaged in Cyclone Gabrielle. Silt build-up around the discharge ports and excess pressure from...
Writings by two rangatahi wāhine from Tairāwhiti are in the latest edition of Ngā Kupu Wero, which focuses on different aspects of the Māori world. Ngā Kupu Wero is an anthology of non-fiction by contemporary Māori writers. The publication...
Environment minister David Parker is no stranger to the pristine Gisborne and East Coast beaches of a previous era. Speaking yesterday at Waikanae Beach, he said he had met children at Tolaga Bay who had never seen a slash-free beach. Mr Parker...
Drivers planning to head for Ōpōtiki on State Highway 2 through the Waioeka Gorge tonight have been reminded that the road will be closed from 7pm at Otoko between Makaretu Road and Whakarau Road, for resealing works. It will be closed in both...
Polly Crawford was among the voters who enjoyed advanced (early) voting yesterday for the 2023 general election. Voting ends at 7pm on election day, October 14. Other first day advance voters included Labour’s East Coast candidate Tāmati Coffey...
Deputy Prime Minister Carmel Sepuloni, opening Tamati Coffey’s East Coast election headquarters in Gisborne yesterday, said some parties wanted to take the country in a dark direction. Labour wanted Aotearoa to be an inclusive and fair country...
The 165 riders who took part in the Highway 35 Motorcycle Club’s Poker Run on State Highway 35 at the weekend had an “epic” time, according to event organiser Ivan Lomax. They were expecting a few more riders, but the lousy weather put off...
Community consultation has started to decide if the region accepts a government cyclone recovery package that still leaves the council with a repair bill in the hundreds of millions. Last month, the Government issued a “take it or leave it”...
The Tūranga Bal, Folk Dance New Zealand’s annual event was a great success at the weekend with 46 people taking part including six musicians and six tutors from around the country. Balfolk dance workshops were taken on Saturday with Michael...
Eastland Port had 10 log ships come calling for cargo last month and they took away 228,000 tonnes of export logs. There were no coastal or reefer ships alongside the wharf last month. “Daily intake of logs into the port averaged around 9500...
Tighter standards to combat forestry slash by targeting new plantings are poised to get a final sign-off. Slash damage from Cyclone Gabrielle in Tairāwhiti forced lawmakers to revisit the mild amendments they had planned. The stronger changes to...
Armed police went to Munro Street in Elgin on Saturday morning in response to reports of a burglary that was reported to have involved a firearm. The response to Munro Street happened shortly before 9am on that morning. “Police who attended were...
A former SPCA inspector has painted a grim picture of Gisborne District Council’s animal control arm in the wake of it putting a dog down in error last month. On September 22, the council euthanised family pet Sarge by mistake on the same day...
Gisborne girl Charlotte Moore and her dad Justin were among the crowd in Hamilton on Saturday afternoon when the Black Ferns beat Australia, and it turned out to be a very special occasion. The nine-year-old rugby and sport-mad youngster, who...
As the penultimate week of the election campaign gets under way, to use a sporting analogy Labour is starting with its captain on the sidelines and the big question confronting National is what final team it might put out on the field. Just as he...
Re: GDC regulatory system remains broken, September 30 column. John, as a parent associated with the Tairāwhiti surfing team, I reached out to GDC on the proposed wastewater discharge at Midway Beach in relation to the New Zealand Scholastic...
The National Party policy of allowing NZ homes worth more than $2 million to be sold to overseas buyers, to try to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy, will destroy small beach towns like Ohope, Gisborne, Waihi, Papamoa and Whangamata. Economists from...
Congratulations Tairāwhiti Alzheimers on your 50th birthday. Those before you and those now have given so much to many of our most vulnerable people in our society. It is frightening to see the growth in this very sad disease and to know it is not...
The reason Healthcare New Zealand took over the support worker contract from CCS, who had ably run it for 30 years in Tairāwhiti, was because they would be “cutting costs”. HCNZ’s latest cost-cutting onslaught has been to shorten support...
Extremely bad luck for any politician to “go down” with Covid so close to an election, and more so for a prime minister wishing to lead the government again after that election. In my humble opinion, while it would not have completely solved our...