Contractors and Gisborne District Council staff were pictured above at the site of a sewer main collapse at Lytton Road near the intersection with Ormond Road and right by Gisborne Hospital. Sucker trucks were on the scene yesterday but the GDC...
Apple and kiwifruit manager Emily Samuel will represent Gisborne in the national final of the Young Grower of the Year competition in October. She works for Thompson’s Horticulture and won the Gisborne Young Grower of the Year competition. The...
Mother’s video after terrifying ordeal blows up on social media
A crushing sporting defeat and what is looking like an auction among politicians brought last week to an end, and would have left many wondering what the coming days might bring to top that. The Silver Ferns’ failure to defend their title at the...
Kerry Worsnop It’s becoming harder to muster enthusiasm for yet another submission on the vexed topic of trees and carbon — simply because so little evidence exists that anyone took any notice of the last submission, or the one before that, or...
It was great to see the councillors were finally allowed to comment on the Kiwa Pools Learn to Swim tender. Although the tender process was endorsed, it was also very apparent there are questions regarding the policy. However, the question to the...
Lactation consultant Sue Wells helps mums with breastfeeding their babies at all stages, but she says returning to work is not just about providing an appropriate space. “It’s a relief for mums to learn they can still feed — to provide their...
There’s a buzz around Gisborne Hospital with the arrival of Dr Vipul Shah — an experienced Critical Care Physician (intensivist). An intensivist is specialised in critical care medicine and cares for patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU)...
Residents at a house in Abbott Street in Te Hapara slept through a kitchen fire in their home on Saturday night. Fire and Emergency NZ were called to the home at around 7.30am that morning. “The people living there told us they had inadvertently...
Aside from responding to a personal locator beacon (PLB) activation at Toatoa, between Torere and Opotiki on July 31, all missions flown by the Trust Tairāwhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter in the last week took the team up the East Coast...
Just over 70 percent of the region’s dog registrations had been paid to Gisborne District Council by the end of last week. The final day for payment before penalty was July 31. On that day 60 percent of registration fees had been paid. By Friday...
National Party leader Christopher Luxon, campaigning here yesterday, says he fondly remembers the city from his days with Air New Zealand, working on regional development, and holidaying here as a youngster from Christchurch. East Coast National...
National Party leader Christopher Luxon stood up before a capacity crowd in Gisborne yesterday. Finally, the “real” Christopher Luxon was on show, the one the nightly news keeps telling people they “don’t know”. Granted, we did not know he...
Barney Strong and Trixie from Taupo took out the J and T Hickey Charity sheep dog trial championship at the Riding Club for the Disabled arena at the Showgrounds on Saturday. The 84-year-old and his dog scored 93.5 points in the 12-dog final run-off...
New Zealand’s first National Security Strategy has doubled down on Government support for military payloads being launched into space from Māhia.
Waka Kotahi and New Zealand Police have reminded East Coast stock owners to keep an eye on their livestock to avoid someone getting killed or seriously injured due to wandering animals. The severe weather of the past few months has caused...
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The nature of central government support for our recovery from Cyclone Gabrielle and the other severe weather events of 2023 has become clearer after news this week that the five Hawke’s Bay councils have agreed on their cost-sharing deal with the...
Re: Climate change driving record weather extremes, August 2 story. A sad story, I must say. Killer heat, deadly floods, choking smoke from wildfires — and no relief in sight. I add that Australia’s Queensland outback got 13 times its normal...
The top 12 dogs and their handlers in the annual J and T Hickey charity sheep dog trial took part in the final run-off in the arena at the Riding Club for the Disabled this morning. Thursday’s 60 qualifying runs on day one produced six...
National Party leader Christopher Luxon will hold a public meeting at Lawson Field Theatre on Monday as part of the party’s Back on Track election campaign. The meeting will start at 11.30am. National Party East Coast candidate Dana Kirkpatrick...
Police have arrested five people this week after executing two search warrants at an address in Wairoa, as part of an ongoing focus on reducing gang harm in the Eastern Police District. The warrants at the same property on Frasertown Road were...
Wainui Beach School is soldiering on with more than a third of staff and students off sick. Yesterday 98 children were away, with 32 confirmed Covid cases. Ten staff were absent, seven of those with Covid. This is a significant number for a school...
Te Whatu Ora Tairāwhiti is continuing to prepare for 24-hour strike by nurses which is due to start at 9am on Wednesday. “There is a chance the strike will be called off,” said a spokesperson. “We will know whether the strike will go ahead or...
Applications for Gisborne District Council’s Natural Heritage Fund are now open for projects planned to start next year. The fund is intended to assist private landowners to protect or enhance indigenous biodiversity on their land, and will be...
A group of farmers yesterday demanded stronger action from the council’s animal control section over wandering dogs that attack and kill sheep. They met with council animal control staff, other staff and two councillors in the council chambers to...
Gisborne District Council and Horticulture NZ have asked growers on the Poverty Bay and Uawa flats to complete a survey about the water quality in local rivers. The information from this survey will be used to model estimated nutrient losses from...
A top Gisborne scientist has kept the support of the council he represents despite posting vitriol about the Government. The posts were made using a social media account which at one point displayed his senior position at the organisation. Gisborne...
For many years a lack of confidence stopped Sara Hallgarth from following her dream to be a teacher, but yesterday she graduated with a Bachelor of Teaching (Primary) from the Tairāwhiti Campus of EIT | Te Pūkenga. Born and bred in Gisborne, Sar...
The EIT Tairāwhiti graduation ceremony returned yesterday after delays, first due to Covid-19 early last year, and again because of Cyclone Gabrielle. Graduates paraded through the city from Heipipi Park to the War Memorial Theatre. Of the 68...
Wairoa will get a new multimillion-dollar flood defence scheme under a new agreement struck between five Hawke’s Bay councils and the Government. A decision on how some of the most urgent cyclone recovery costs for Hawke’s Bay will be shared...
A landmark mural in Tokomaru Bay, painted 30 years ago by artist John Walsh, has been defaced. Disbelief, anger and sadness have been expressed in the wake of the damage. Walsh painted the mural, which depicts local identities, on the wall of the...
Mareikura Waka Ama Club is a step closer to having a home base at Anzac Park. The 38-year-old club is expected to soon have a storage facility for waka ama after a decision this week by Gisborne district councillors, sitting as the operations...
Dr William Hoverd Yesterday at Parliament, Minister of Defence and the security services Hon Andrew Little released three policy documents focusing on the security of Aotearoa New Zealand. Minister Little was supported by the Chief of Defence Force...