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Beach clean-up begins

Contractor Siteworx Civil has made a start on the latest clean-up of debris on the city beaches. Kaiti Beach was the first section to be worked on. Once the driftwood build-up was removed from there, workers were to move to The Cut at Waikanae and...

Surf break off limits during repair work

Surfers have been told to stay out of the water because Gisborne District Council plans to discharge treated wastewater on a section of Midway Beach’s The Pipe break next Wednesday. The council will also have to close The Pipe for four days from...

CACTUS students pass Longest Day with flying colours

The 15 high school students involved in the latest CACTUS youth development programme in the city came through The Longest Day in fine style on Saturday. The students were mainly from Lytton High School, with a couple from other kura. The Longest...

MUD BATH

Gisborne Boys’ High School’s annual cross-country at Sponge Bay once again proved a mixture of competition and fun for the hundreds of students who took part. And the fun factor, as usual, came from mud, glorious mud. Who knows what else lurks...

East Coast electorate sees record 11 candidates in general election

East Coast voters will have plenty of choice when general election voting opens on October 2 because a record 11 candidates will appear on the ballot paper.

Teen singer ‘speechless’ after rockquest victory

Gisborne Boys’ High School student Salem Randall says “I can truly lose myself” when it comes to performing onstage. On Saturday, losing became winning as Salem took out the solo-duo category at the 35th national final of Smokerfreeockquest...

Rocket Lab on track for record launches

Rocket Lab will launch a record-equalling mission from Māhia later today. Scheduled for lift-off at 6.30pm, the mission — titled We Will Never Desert You — is for American space tech company Capella Space, a provider of commercial Synthetic...

Te Whare Awhiora to be completed by end of 2024

A long-awaited regional drug and mental health treatment facility is expected to be completed by the end of next year, Te Whatu Ora says. The $23.7 million facility — Te Whare Awhiora — was one of five projects funded out of Budget 2019’s $1.9...

Better off relying on naturally occurring osmosis

Clive Bibby Looking at recent polls showing voter reaction to mandated changes to the way we co- exist with one another, one is drawn to the inescapable conclusion that the Government could achieve much of its race relations objectives by relying on...

Forest fire threat a reality

Under weak administrative monitoring of commercial afforestation mandatory requirements, and now the forecast El Niño threat, forest fire threat in our region is a realistic possibility of major concern. Commercial forestry staff in the past were...

Oh, how we so easily forget

Re: Pre-election forecast bleak but not all bad, September 13 editorial. I do wonder how we quickly seem to have forgotten the global shocks of the Covid pandemic, war, supply-chain issues and how they have affected our economy along with every...

‘Cheaper, simpler, kinder’

I am a regular user of the library and I also use the car park for people with a disability. To get from the car park to the library, I have been in the habit of walking across the grass as a short cut to the door. I welcome this as walking is not...

Charity ball to help cyclone-affected farmers the flood affected

Hawke’s Bay woman Georgia Denton and Tremains Hawke’s Bay are to stage a ball in early October to raise funds to support cyclone-affected farmers in Hawke’s Bay and Tairāwhiti. It will be held in Hastings at the Cheval Room (300 Prospect...

Spared worst of wind, rain due

Make the most of the sunny weather, as the extended outlook is for the rain to return to the Gisborne region next week. MetService’s long-range outlook is for clear, sunny days and mostly north-west winds this week, but for rain to return around...

Violent end to Christmas do

They’d hired a taxi van so everyone could get home safely from their Christmas function but even so, a group of workers’ over-indulgence in alcohol spelled a horror end to a good night out. Fletcher Hamish Scammell, building apprentice, told...

Māhia battle features in third series of Kairakau

The battle of Kaiuku at Māhia features in the third season of Kairakau, which begins on Thursday at 9pm on Whakaata Māori and MĀORI+. The series is described as “bringing to life the incredible stories of devastation, loss and hope that...