Applications have opened for commercial entities affected by silt from Cyclone Gabrielle to apply for financial support. The $7.4m funding from Central Government enables businesses in Tairāwhiti to process and dispose of sediment and debris on...
Raw sewage entering a Gisborne dwelling during rain events has left the property’s owner jobless and living in “survival mode”. Tonessa Nicholson lives in a townhouse at Kaiti’s Huxley Rd, a place she has called home for more than 20 years...
East Coast MP Kiri Allan returned to work today and resumed her full duties. Prime Minister Chris Hipkins met with her on Friday to discuss her recent leave and allegations made against her. “Kiri has had a rough time lately, both personally and...
A seriously-injured Maz Quinn was stoked to learn that the Trust Tairāwhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter was on its way after he was injured while surfing at his favourite surf break at Mahia late last month. The surf break on the eastern side of the...
New Zealand Community Trust has awarded Gisborne’s Eastland Helicopter Rescue Trust a grant of $12,000 to purchase two Alpha Eagle Dual Visor Flight Helmets. The specialist headgear helps equip the Trust Tairāwhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter that...
Chris Hipkins showed once again how focused he is on trying to stay in government when he followed the lead of Sir John Key and Dame Jacinda Ardern in ruling out a policy, that he knows has merit, any time under his leadership. In this case it is...
Who does Prime Minister Chris Hipkins think he’s fooling, that a redistribution of wealth in our country is not a priority? Jordan Walker, Greeen Party candidate for East Coast Is equity not a priority Chris? What about pulling people out of...
Gwynne Dyer “I was there when the Anthropocene was born. It was so amazing,” said Dr Katherine Richardson, leader of the Sustainability Science Centre at the University of Copenhagen. It was in 2000, at a meeting of the International...
The Earth could fit into our Sun 1.3 million times. Human beings don’t even register on the scale of the universe. We are but a flicker of consciousness in the vast, unfathomable void of space. But this flicker of consciousness has the ability to...
Heather van Wyk’s call for a gallery dedicated to the museum’s permanent collection of art is an excellent one that will be supported by many people in this district. The topic arose from time to time in my years on the Museum Board and...
Re: Eastland Generation seeks 50 percent capital partner, July 10 story. The proposed strategic capital raise to help fund the expansion of Eastland Generation’s renewable generation portfolio and Trust Tairawhiti’s involvement is intriguing...
Applications for the latest round of the Tū Manawa Active Aotearoa Fast Fund have reopened through Sport Gisborne Tairāwhiti. Tū Manawa supports costs for projects that encourage children and young people who have barriers to being active. For...
Months on from Cyclone Gabrielle, a Whakatāne-based LPG supplier is still playing a critical role in keeping stranded Tairāwhiti communities supplied with LPG bottles — a vital energy source, especially when power is down. Bob’s Gas works...
A national award is icing on the celebration cake for YMP Hockey Club as it marks its centenary this weekend. The New Zealand Amateur Sport Association yesterday announced that YMP was the 2023 winner of the Te Tohu Tikitike o Matariki Award. The...
by Loren Sirl Keen birdwatcher and former wildlife ranger Sandy Bull described his excitement at spotting the rare northern shoveler recently at the Orongo Wetland at Nick’s Head Station. The rare visitor was spotted on July 7. “I was very...
Recognising the stars of Aotearoa was the focus of Wednesday night’s Ngā Tohu Matariki o te Tau 2023, the Matariki Awards. Tā Haare Williams (Te Aitanga a Mahaki, Rongowhakaata, Ngāi Tūhoe, Te Whakatōhea) was awarded the Te Huihuinga o...
The Court of Appeal decision on the gold kiwifruit issue was “a very significant decision and it is good to have clarity around this issue”, said Gisborne District Council chief executive Nedine Thatcher Swann. In a decision released this week...
Gisborne District Council has labelled the projected 218 percent projected price increase for households under the relaunched three water reforms as “quite frankly, very disturbing”. The council submission to a parliamentary select committee on...
Some places are still available for people wanting to be part of the Tairāwhiti Mentoring Initiative, a fully funded nationwide governance programme designed to improve governance on community boards. The inaugural programme last year was so...
Honours for Tairāwhiti tāngata fostering Māoritanga in IT and digital projects Tairāwhiti tangata were celebrated at the inaugural Te Matihiko Awards, the Aotearoa Māori tech awards, for their mahi across a range of digital kaupapa. The awards...
Four Gisborne motels, residents park paid over $1m from emergency accommodation grants in 2022 Some Gisborne motels are still earning more than $1 million a year providing emergency accommodation for the Government, despite a drop in grants and the...
After another bout of severe weather on June 22, Gisborne farmer Sam Gemmell was without power and completely cut off again. The only road access from his family homestead to Wharekopae Road is via a bridge that was wiped out by Cyclone Gabrielle in...
by Murray Robertson Vortex Power Systems (VPS) is pressing ahead with its project to develop a world-leading alternative electricity generation system. Construction on the Whangara test site will start once ground conditions dry out. The...
Aside from my support for Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Aotearoa — against Japan’s release of Fukushima radioactive-water discharge plus the retention of our nuclear-free Pacific policy — I write this for Hiroshima Peace...
The Labour Party must be really excited that a gang boss has instructed their 800-odd members to vote for Labour in the coming election. This is obviously a reward for the $2 million Labour donated to the Mongrel Mob and their recent tea party with...
At a time when most of the world is in the grip of an energy crisis, we here in New Zealand need to take advantage of our position amongst the few who have more time to transition fully to renewable energy sources. In the process of making those...
New Zealand’s newest public holiday is being celebrated for only the second time tomorrow and has already established itself as a day with a character all of its own, very different from the other traditional holidays. Rather than celebrating the...
Work will take place over four days in the next fortnight to remove hazardous trees alongside State Highway 2 north of Te Karaka. “The trees have become a hazard to road users, following the weekend’s weather event, as the heavy rainfall has...
A new publication with practical advice for communities interested in undertaking a “just transition” process has been launched today by economic and policy research organisation Motu in Wellington. Representatives from Te Weu Tairāwhiti and...
The police inquiry continues into the crash between a van and a car on State Highway 2 last Thursday in the Bartletts area in which three Mahia people were injured. Eleven elderly people from Mahia were in the van, returning from a trip to Gisborne...
The woman who suffered burns in the house fire that extensively damaged her home at the city end of Awapuni Road in the early hours of Tuesday has been discharged from hospital. Fire and Emergency NZ and St John ambulance were called to the burning...
“Matariki calls you home” is the theme of this year’s Matariki awareness campaign and police want to make sure motorists heading home for it get to reflect and be with whānau and friends this long weekend. Area police commander Inspector Sam...
Te Aitanga a Mahaki lead negotiator Willie Te Aho has condemned what he calls an “arrogant approach” by Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency and its major contractors within the eastern tribe’s rohe. Te Aho, who also represents Te...
Tomorrow is Matariki and people across Tairāwhiti will be celebrating it in different ways across the region. Matariki is the star cluster most commonly known across the world as Pleiades. This cluster is part of a larger constellation of stars...