Experienced emergency and toxicology nurse Jason Tannagan arrived from Santiago City in the Philippines last month and is working in Gisborne Hospital’s Ward 9. “The community and staff have been very welcoming and Gisborne is a great city,”...
Residents belonging to diverse migrant families are being invited to submit their personal stories of immigration for a new book called Diversity Out East. The 50-page photo book is being produced by the Tairāwhiti Multicultural Council (TMC)...
I will win East Coast,” vouches National’s East Coast candidate Dana Kirpatrick, who brought party deputy leader Nicola Willis to Gisborne yesterday. Ms Kirkpatrick said East Coast had been a safe seat for previous National MP Anne Tolley. She...
An unusual bout of public acrimony and discord among our district leaders in the trying aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle has been patched over with the signing this week of a “Tairāwhiti Statement of Unity” and approval for a unified Tairāwhiti...
The last time I drove down to Hawke’s Bay I was saddened by the state of State Highway 2. Lots of other roads I have to say are also in a sad state, which shows it is not just a product of past challenging weather events. Gone are the days of...
Re: Build not fully compliant, July 27 story. Here are some things for us all to think about. Resource consent conditions exist to ensure homes are built to a certain standard. This standard has been designed by experts to ensure buildings are safe...
Re: Vax mandates dropped, July 27 story. While it shows some movement in the right direction — the revelation “Unvaccinated health workers can again apply to work at Gisborne Hospital” — I guess the impact actuality of that statement would...
Rocket Lab’s next Mahia launch aims to lift off tomorrow evening. The “We Love the Nightlife” mission is scheduled to launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 at Māhia for American space tech company Capella Space (Capella), a leading provider...
Nearly 1800 voters of Māori descent have changed electoral rolls either to or from Ikaroa-Rāwhiti. The Māori electoral option closed on July 13 with 912 voters moving from the general roll to Ikaroa-Rāwhiti, and 889 voters shifting from...
The region’s best grape vine pruners will descend on Ashwood Estate Racecourse at Makaraka on Monday to compete in the annual Gisborne Silver Secateur Awards. The event was to have been staged yesterday but was postponed until Monday due to the...
The region is presenting a united front as it looks to accelerate the recovery from Cyclone Gabrielle. Seven chief executives from leading organisations in Tairāwhiti signed a Statement of Unity on Tuesday. The statement was from the four mandated...
A lesson learnt at primary school was remembered when it mattered most for a woman at a house in Elgin on Thursday when a lithium ion battery overheated and set fire to a bedroom in the home. Fire and Emergency NZ sent crews to the house in Chalmers...
Corson Grain and Cedenco Foods will receive $14 million between them in Regional Strategic Partnership Fund loans to assist with their cyclone recovery. Minister for Regional Development Kieran McAnulty yesterday announced further investment in...
Regional infrastructure company Eastland Group has weathered one of the most testing years in the company’s history, and goes into the second half of 2023 with a fresh strategic focus and ambitious plans for growth. “It’s been an incredibly...
Mental health campaigner and All Black legend Sir John Kirwan returns to the district next month but a day later than first flagged. Sir John, Westpac New Zealand’s mental health ambassador, will visit Tolaga Bay and Wairoa on August 10 as he...
What They Didn’t Teach Us At School” is the thought-provoking title of artist Clayton Gibson’s latest exhibition at Tairāwhiti Museum. The show is intended to generate conversations about the interpretation of New Zealand history, especially...
The Government has moved this week to restore confidence in the country’s carbon market and Emissions Trading Scheme, announcing changes to ETS settings so they will align with advice provided by the Climate Change Commission in July last year...
Bob Hughes On 11th March 2011, an earthquake and tsunami hit Japan and caused major damage to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Thousands of tonnes of radioactive water spewed into the Pacific Ocean and now Japan feels compelled to...
Tim Wilson, Maxim Institute executive director A rogue shooter loose in a CBD; two innocents slaughtered; a city shut down. Describing the event, the Prime Minister tears up before the cameras. So ended a week during which the Government attempted...
Gwynne Dyer The protesters in Israel came out every week for seven months to fight what they saw as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s assault on democracy, but they lost. On Monday Netanyahu’s coalition government passed a “Basic Law” that...
Wainui Beach School students are supporting staff members who are growing moustaches to raise money for charity. The school hopes to raise $1000 for I am Hope, the charity founded by Mike King to create positive societal attitudinal change towards...
More than 100 hazardous trees alongside State Highway 2 north of Te Karaka were removed during four days of closures over the past two weeks. Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency said the trees had become a hazard to road users, following heavy and...
Safety assessments are being made after a large section of a Māhia cliff-face slipped into the sea on Wednesday. A local Facebook community page showed a picture of the slip with a house at the top of the cliff. A spokeswoman for Wairoa District...
Police inquiries are continuing into the death of former Gisborne man Rowen Aupouri whose body was found washed up on Whirinaki Beach in Hawke’s Bay last Sunday morning. A rāhui that has been in place in that area since the discovery ends today...
An intimate Māori art exhibition showcasing the work of local artists of Te Aitanga a Hauiti and Uawa opened this week. Te Huapae – Tōi Māori, Tōi Ora, Tōi Hauiti, is on at Te Whare Hauora o Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti and is presented in partnership...
With the Women’s World Cup having kicked off, Te Tari Taiwhenua, Department of Internal Affairs (DIA), has given out a pre-game team talk about the rules around sweepstakes, advising Gisborne workplaces to avoid an own goal. Keeping to the...
A potential new population of shortjaw kōkopu, one of the five whitebait species, has been discovered in Māhia. Hawke’s Bay Regional Council senior scientist Dan Fake said the breakthrough discovery marked the first time the native fish has been...
Four schools in Tairāwhiti will benefit from the Trees for Survival Programme, a Rotary initiative that encourages and inspires young people to grow, nurture and plant native trees. Awapuni School, Patutahi School, Tolaga Bay Area School and...
A driver who ploughed through a fence into a house, seriously injuring a woman sitting at a kitchen table, has pleaded guilty to charges arising and will be sentenced later this year. Alec Thoreson Thomson, 37, was drink-driving for an eighth time...
High groundwater levels across Tairāwhiti continue to suspend burials, as a large pond forms next to graves at one East Coast site. At Ūawa/Tolaga Bay, the water level is so high at the sodden local cemetery, water surrounds a grave in one corner...
A whole raft of human rights issues are tied up with forestry companies and slash, says Chief Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt, after witnessing the impact of weather events on the Tairāwhiti region. He was here on Wednesday, along with the...
Senior Labour minister David Parker says he didn’t want to cause any “disturbances” as he took the opportunity of a reallocation of ministerial roles following Kiri Allan’s resignation to exit the revenue portfolio, just ahead of the...
We have been long-term supporters of The Gisborne Herald, as were our respective parents in their time. However, we need to write that we totally agree with Mary-Ann de Kort’s opinion expressed in her letter, “Result of a nasty campaign”...
Politics is a rapacious “omnivore” and is prone to gobble-up the most intelligent and loyal politicians. Although Kiri Allan’s politics probably suffered from lack of support from many members of the political centre-left, no one can dispute...