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...
The weather forced the cancellation of Sunday’s Children’s Day event but organisers still brought joy to some tamariki. Activities were planned at the Stand Tu Maia village on Sunday to celebrate all tamariki of Tairāwhiti as part of the...
Potholes resulting from recent weather events are causing a major increase in wrecked tyres, bent rims and misaligned wheels and Gisborne garages and tyre centres are working hard to keep up with demand. Gisborne Beaurepaires owner Keith Cannell...
A group of Gisborne residents protesting about a new Kāinga Ora development on their street say it’s bad news for neighbours and those who will call the place home
Over the past year, Kāinga Ora has spent $47 million buying houses from Gisborne developers, plus another $50m building its own.
Capital stock cows made up the majority of the yarding of 1100 head at the monthly Cattle fair at the Matawhero saleyards yesterday. The best of those cows realised up to a top price of $1470 for a line from Waitangi Terraces. Good useful cows made...
The announcement that Eastland Group Ltd is putting half its energy generation business on the market will not excite anything like the community opposition that its proposal to sell Eastland Network did last year. Hopefully it will attract...
by Gwynne Dyer When Nato held its annual summit in Brussels two years ago, all 31 presidents and prime ministers of the alliance’s member states dutifully showed up, but their hearts weren’t really in it. France’s President Emmanuel Macron had...
I recently visited the Tairāwhiti Museum and Art Gallery and noticed there was finally some activity going on in the Professor Jack Richards gallery after months of it standing empty. Please, please do not fill this with cheap Kiwiana or the like...
To the young man who helped me look for my purse by the Mangapapa Four Square, a grateful thank you. I found it in a crevice it had got into. You are one of so many young people today who our community can be so grateful for. Your kindness and care...
A rodeo fan has failed to persuade the country’s broadcasting watchdog that a television news item about the sport, was unbalanced and unfair. The item, which featured footage from a recent rodeo in Wairoa, aired on Newshub Live at 6pm on January...
DoC “committed to undertaking essential repairs”; early 2024 reopening “if possible” by Anna Rankin, Wairoa Star Morere Hot Springs could be reopened to the public early next year, the Department of Conservation (DoC) says. The facility has...
Court rules in favour of council’s increased rates for gold variety orchards Gold kiwifruit growers are staring down the barrel of a sustained hike in their rates after failing in their appeal of a High Court decision. It concludes...
The next two launches from Rocket Lab’s Mahia spaceport are good to go. The latest mission, titled Baby Come Back, is scheduled to lift off from Pad B at Launch Complex 1 no earlier than 11.30am on Saturday. The mission will carry seven satellites...
A round with an All Black legend goes under the hammer tomorrow night to help one of the district’s top golfers. All Black fullback Christian Cullen will be in Gisborne this weekend to play in the TP Strong 4 Andy fundraising tournament on the...
After a solid month of shipping in May, the weather caused major disturbances in June, impacting on cart-in and port operations at Eastland Port. “We still managed to ship 193,499 tonnes of logs across nine ships for the month of June,” an...
Hot election topic as National announces 40 percent cap mark if voted in as Government. A new legal decision is putting the brakes on the level of discount offenders can get at sentencing. Offenders can theoretically get an entire sentence wiped out...
The dire straits in which the constant bad weather has left the region’s forestry industry has been laid bare in a statement from Eastland Wood Council. “The impact of this year’s storms on the forestry sector across the East Coast (on the...
There are 71 active cases of Covid-19 in Tairāwhiti, according to Ministry of Health figures up to 1pm on Monday. There have been 35 deaths in Tairāwhiti and a total of 24,484 cases in all. The Ministry has reported 3159 deaths across the country...
Extended meteorological outlooks indicate a decent spell of fine weather lasting up to 10 days for the Gisborne-East Coast region. New Zealand and overseas weather agencies are all looking to indications of a change as a result of El Nino conditions...
A woman was taken to Gisborne Hospital suffering burns after fire extensively damaged her home at the city end of Awapuni Road in the early hours of Tuesday. Fire and Emergency NZ and St John ambulance were called to the blaze at around 1.15am...
Food bank struggling to keep up with demand The Salvation Army Winter Appeal has come at a time of great need as the Gisborne branch struggles to keep up with growing demand for food parcels. The Sallies used to give out around 10 parcels a week but...
Emphasis on employing locals; more funding to be made available: Grant Robertson.
Doris Higgins has been volunteering at Gisborne Hospital since 2007. “After moving from the country into town and finishing up work, I was looking for something to do,” said Doris. Her role as a volunteer involves directing people where to go...
The Te Puka Hunting & Fishing Club competition held recently in Tokomaru Bay was a big success with more than 420 entries and 700-plus pigs, deer, goats, possums, turkeys and hares weighed in. Co-organiser Rozzi Pethybridge said it was a big...
Gisborne’s community pharmacies are celebrating after the High Court in Wellington ruled that licences issued to five Countdown pharmacies, including the Gisborne store, are unlawful and invalid and should be quashed. The Ministry of Health and...
Staff from the Gisborne branch of accountants BDO hope they will inspire other companies here to follow their lead after stopping work for a day to help local volunteer organisations. BDO consultant Pete Jarratt said the initiative turned out to be...
A group of Gisborne musicians have raised $55,000 to aid the efforts of charitable trust and men’s mental health organisation Hear4U. The band with no name’s manager Dana Kirkpatrick said since Cyclone Gabrielle, they wanted to put on a party...
A police inquiry continues into the “unexplained” death of a man at an address on Kaiwaitau Road in Mahia on Thursday last week. Police were called to the home at around 12.25pm that day. “At this time the death is being treated as...
Emergency services responded to two incidents over the weekend — a vehicle crash in Tucker Road and an unattended cooking fire at a house in Makaraka. At around 4pm on Saturday, appliances were sent to a property at the corner of Ora Street and...
Māori author Witi Ihimaera will be the guest of honour at the 33rd International First Peoples’ Festival in Montreal next month. The multidisciplinary festival includes concerts, dances, poetry and more than 60 films. It is billed as a flagship...
More rain, more flooding, more damage . . . the latest rain has inflicted more of everything the district does not want. The Gisborne-East Coast roading network now could hardly be called that as a monumental amount of damage has made road travel...
Eastland Generation today announced a strategic capital raise to help fund the expansion of its renewable generation portfolio. The company intends to raise funds by offering a 50 percent ownership stake. Matt Todd, chief executive of parent...
Yet another in what seems like an endless succession of wet weekends could have left the people of Tairāwhiti as prime victims of the seasonal affective disorder SAD. Every time it seems we might be getting a break from the wettest winter in most...