A long-haul truck driver caught drink-driving has been sentenced to community work. Judge Warren Cathcart imposed 250 hours work on Nigel Ross Williamson, 41, when he appeared in Gisborne District Court this week. The judge also imposed a mandatory...
The cyclone-damaged Hikuwai No. 1 bridge on State Highway 35 will be completely dismantled and transported away later this month. A Bailey bridge was opened earlier this month replacing the Hikuwai No. 1 bridge north of Tolaga Bay which was destroyed...
Gisborne’s main internet link was restored quickly in the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle but ongoing monitoring will be needed for two more years, before a permanent solution, to put the the fibre optic cable underground, can be implemented. “The...
A Wairoa woman has been arrested and charged with supplying methamphetamine, following the execution of a number of search warrants as part of the ongoing Operation Kotare targeting organised crime. Eastern District Police executed four search...
Wairoa and Nuhaka firefighters were called out in the early hours of yesterday morning to a major house fire in Wairoa. They found the home fully ablaze. The 111 calls started to come in just before 1am on Tuesday morning. “Three fire appliances...
Gisborne District Council has 137 homes on its list for silt removal, according to latest figures, as its spend on silt removal climbs to more than $2 million. The figures relate to a total spend in the region following Cyclone Gabrielle, and...
A landowner out flying a drone one morning spotted a group of strangers on his property without permission. When they started taunting the drone, the man called police. Raana Walter Morice was subsequently charged with unlawful hunting and unlawful...
Billboards are popping up around the Tairāwhiti region to remind people about methamphetamine abuse in the community. This is a local initiative organised by Tuta Ngarimu the regional manager for NZ P Pull Movement and manager of Manaaki Moves...
Police intervention needed as level of abuse intensifies across all departments.
Another mid-winter week has started on a bleak note with little to brighten the news scene. Television One’s Sunday programme kicked things off with a sombre message around the damage that has been done here by extreme weather and the massive...
June was a fun month for news outlets, RNZ’s self-inflicted scandal aside. Maryanne Spurdle, Maxim Institute researcher How often does a Cabinet Minister resign, and for entirely preventable reasons? Reactions to Michael Wood’s brazen resistance...
What on earth are the Gisborne Churches doing? Do you all agree with last Saturday’s Christian Comment? Shame on you! How did you allow this to be printed? Two of the Churches on the page stated “ALL WELCOME”. Bernard Moran doesn’t say which...
A huge thank you and aroha to the Palmerston Rd Immunisation Hub. We were really grateful for our injections in such a caring and friendly atmosphere. It wasn’t something we wanted but it was something we needed and you all did it painlessly and...
Great letter-exchange on the population problem over the weekend, thank you. Roger Handford told how improved education and family health reduces population growth; Lara Meyer added the factor of contraception. This general effect is known as the...
Please wake up and fix the railway line. There are too many holes in the road, and a big election on October 14th. I am a great, great fan of trains and used to travel on the train a lot. I want to see the trains come back to Gisborne for...
Planning a wetland restoration? The Gisborne District Council’s catchments and biodiversity team is working on developing some tools and resources to help landowners and community groups with planning biodiversity enhancement projects. Locals have...
Firefighters were called twice to a house at the Elgin end of Childers Road overnight Sunday after a fire started in a bedroom of the property early in the evening. Fire and Emergency NZ sent appliances to the home at around 6pm initially. “...
The Haka Party Incident may be revisiting a confrontation in 1979 that changed the nation’s race relations forever, but it is just as relevant today. Perhaps even more so ,says Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival chief executive and artistic director...
One of the region’s favourite sons, Rutene Spooner, is back this week to delight young and old with the show he created, Pipi Paopao. It’s a homecoming that Spooner (Ngati Porou, Ngaruahine and Ngati Kahungunu) always looks forward to. “I find...
Orere Angus at Pehiri kicked off the Gisborne component of East Coast Angus Bull Week yesterday morning with an almost total clearance and a top price of $65,000. Ben and Kylie Johnson sold 19 out of the 20 rising two-year-old bulls they put up by...
A new high price of $68,000 was paid for a bull fairly late in the Tangihau Angus catalogue yesterday as the Rere stud continued the high clearance rate this rising two-year-old bull sale season. The stud also sold one for $62,000. Lot 25 sold for...
Police have released the name of the man whose body was found in a car in the Mata River inland from Ruatoria last week. He was 52-year-old Royce Alan Mathieson from Ruatoria. His car went off Matahiia Road and into the river and was washed about...
People are advised to stay out of the water, after 12 days of sewer discharges into waterways here. Gisborne District Council confirmed the emergency sewer valves were closed at 3pm Friday. The council advises no swimming, fishing, or gathering...
An open day to celebrate their new premises in the Ballance Street Village was a great success for Elite Hobbies, with a great number of radio/remote controlled (RC) vehicle enthusiasts joining in the celebrations and fun. Co-owners Daniel Contreras...
Medical professionals are calling for higher rates of immunisation as presentations are increasing at Gisborne Hospital. And it’s only the first wave of winter illnesses which has arrived in Tairāwhiti. Last week, as the second term drew to...
There was a light wind and light rain as the passengers walked out to their plane at Whenuapai airport on the morning of July 3, 1963, but everyone was in a good mood as they were returning to home and family. Their plane, a National Airways...
If Minister of Corrections Kelvin Davis was evaluated by private enterprise on the results of the Chief Ombudsman’s report he would be unemployed. The buck stops with him. Ian Gaskin, Tuai
Just in time for the school holidays, the weather gods are finally offering more moderate weather for the next week. Apart from a few showers, the days through to next weekend should mostly be a welcome relief for a region in recovery mode...
A familiar voice of East Coast iwi radio will finally get a sleep-in after 27 years of early starts as Radio Ngāti Porou’s esteemed breakfast announcer. Yesterday, Radio Ngāti Porou breakfast announcer Kahu Waitoa — known by his community as...
Gisborne District Council is calling on expressions of interest for its new community-led recovery plan following severe weather across the region. The Recovery Coordination Centre — which was set up to ensure a coordinated recovery for...
Two of Gisborne’s favourite spots for recreation — the Makorori Headland reserve and Titirangi (Kaiti Hill) are closed until further notice. The Makorori Headland is unstable in multiple areas with slips causing subsidence. People are asked to...
Police on Thursday recovered the body of a man from a car that had left the Matahiia Road inland from Ruatoria and plunged into the Mata River. They were notified at around 3pm on Wednesday that a car had been seen in the river. Police said it was...
Trust Tairāwhiti chief executive Gavin Murphy is stepping down effective July 2023 after nearly six years in the role, says trust chair John Clarke. “After guiding the trust through the amalgamation of the trust to include the economic...
Gisborne District Council has confirmed two new appointments to the governance board of Trust Tairāwhiti “to take forward the good work of departing trustees Dr Jill Chrisp and Kristen Kohere-Soutar”. Mayor Rehette Stoltz acknowledged the...