Ilminster Intermediate School celebrated Matariki and the upcoming school holidays with a special assembly and concert designed to lift their spirits after what has been a tough term. The celebration focused on recognising the key values of Matariki...
Contrary to what a correspondent said on Thursday’s opinion page, there has not been an external audit of council and Civil Defence actions during Cyclone Gabrielle. An independent third party was commissioned to compile an event timeline, which...
Gwynne Dyer “I said to Putin: ‘We could waste (Prigozhin), no problem. If not on the first try, then on the second.’ I told him: ‘Don’t do this’,” said Aleksandr Lukashenko, long-ruling dictator of Belarus, clearly delighted at having...
The 50-metre pool at the Gisborne Olympic pool complex was heated again from Thursday after wood chip issues were solved, and pool management said the pool would reopen today. The water would be in a “cooler yet swimmable” condition over the...
June will long be remembered by Gisborne-East Coast folk as the month it forgot to stop raining. The past 30 days have been some of the most testing in the district’s history — Gisborne’s wettest June in 144 years, with rain on 20 of those...
A new initiative to help get patients from the East Coast to health appointments in Gisborne city starts on Monday. “There are not many places in Aotearoa that don’t have free health shuttles funded, so it felt like the East Coast was the last...
Two forestry companies and their directors charged by the District Council for alleged breaches of resource consents, revealed by storm events last March, have chosen to have their cases decided by juries. The companies and their respective...
A five-year-old boy stood screaming in fear as his father stormed about their house throwing items, pushing the boy’s mother, and whipping her with an extension cord. The woman had just arrived home from her nightshift work and had cooked...
A new video being launched in Gisborne tomorrow features Civil Defence messages in 21 languages. It is the brainchild of the Tairāwhiti Multicultural Council (TMC). The hour-and-a-half video features locals of different ethnicities, reading...
Kowhai House, Gisborne’s community immunisation centre based in Palmerston Road, closed yesterday. The hub started distributing RAT tests and Covid-19 vaccinations in 2020 and later became a general immunisation hub for the Tairāwhiti community...
A judge has been told how an 11-year-old boy, regularly beaten and whipped by his father, was removed from his family and sent to Weymouth Boys’ Home, where the abuse by people in authority continued and the boy's criminal offending began. That...
All children aged 12 years and under will ride the bus for free from today. The Government announced the initiative last month in an attempt to ease the cost-of-living pressure on families. Gisborne District Council network technician Hanoa Morete...
Ratanui Angus at Tuai inland from Wairoa got the East Coast Angus rising two-year-old bull sales season off to a strong sell-out start in their on-farm auction yesterday afternoon. The Story family sold 28 out of 28 young bulls put up for sale, for...
Ratanui Angus at Tuai inland from Wairoa got the East Coast Angus rising two-year-old bull sales season off to a strong sell-out start in their on-farm auction yesterday afternoon. The Story family sold 28 out of 28 young bulls put up for sale, for...
Adam Young When I imagine the exercise of free speech, speaking truth to power and “sticking it to the man”, I don’t think of back-room discussions or big-money lobbying. No, one simply needs to run a Google image search of “free speech”...
There was a fall of up to $20 per head for store lambs at the Matawhero Saleyards yesterday. The wet ground conditions with market and climate uncertainty are making potential buyers cautious. There were a total of 1445 sheep sent for sale...
One definition of a news story is that it’s something that someone doesn’t want printed on the front page. The Herald obviously had such a story in Saturday’s edition because it had the effect of getting right up the nose of the GDC chief...
Re: Christmas Parade organiser. I’m sure the GDC can get one offshore. M.J. Arthur
The issue of conflict of interest has been in headlines quite a lot recently regarding various ministers and public servants. I came across a glaring example of conflict of interest in the “Interagency Committee on the Health effects of...
The personal can become very public for politicians and many will be feeling for East Coast MP Kiri Allan who has had that in spades this week as she returned to Parliament from a mental health break. News reports of “concerns” about the working...
Clive Bibby In politics, there is a time and place for everything and now, more than ever in these troubling times, we need to focus on maintaining an environment that allows governments to operate in the best interests of all citizens — including...
The Government is progressing work in response to the Ministerial Inquiry into land use in Tairāwhiti/Gisborne and Wairoa, say Environment Minister David Parker and Forestry Minister Peeni Henare. “The inquiry report, Outrage to Optimism, made 49...
It’s not only bananas that love their pyjamas. The children of Riverdale School Special Education Centre think theirs are cool, too. These pyjamas — packed in three banana boxes — came all the way from the South Island . . . Blenheim, in fact...
A woman has admitted using stolen order books to charge nearly $34,000 worth of power tools and other items to a local building company, staff at stores where she shopped unwittingly helping her in the process. Natasha Miringaorangi, 35, entered her...
Te Whatu Ora-Tairāwhiti has launched their Go Well winter campaign. Its three main messages are ■ Stay home if you’re sick or isolating for Covid-19. ■ Wear a mask in crowded spaces. ■ Choose the best healthcare options. Choosing the best...
Huringa Pai, a whānau-driven movement to help people make positive changes to improve their health received the largest distribution in the latest funding round from Trust Tairāwhiti. More than $117,000 was awarded to four community groups, with...
A disappointed Comet Swimming Club remains adamant it should have been awarded the contract for learn-to-swim lessons at Kiwa Pools ahead of a billion-dollar Australian company. Club general manager Rochelle Somerton, speaking at Wednesday’s...
Te Aitanga a Māhaki iwi say they are thankful for the latest announcement of extra support to help remove sediment and debris off whenua Māori, and that it will help keep the people and homes of Te Karaka safe, This is the latest Government...
East Coast MP back at Parliament after mental health break last week, confirms relationship break-up East Coast MP Kiri Allan, under fire following allegations of bad working relationships in her office, has defended herself vigorously against what...
Taruheru Cemetery remains closed for burials due to the high water table levels there in almost all of the cemetery zones. Many areas of the site had lakes of surface water in the wake of the latest heavy rains, and that includes areas of land set...
Gisborne District Council adopted the 2023/24 Annual Plan at its meeting on Wednesday. The document outlines where the council’s funding in the next financial year (July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024) will be spent. Chief executive Nedine Thatcher...
Sarah Hunter was woken by a huge thump on Sunday morning when a massive pūriri tree on her riverside property fell off a cliff and into the river. On Tuesday afternoon the family got the dreaded news their house had been red-stickered. A total of...
Kiwi surfing icon Maz Quinn is recovering in hospital after he was dashed against the rocks in a dramatic wipeout at Māhia yesterday. Quinn shared news of the accident on social media, revealing that he suffered spinal injuries in the accident that...
Regarding criticism by the council chief executive of our lead story on Saturday, which contained criticisms of council-led Civil Defence Emergency Management at a time it was dealing with a State of Emergency, we accept she makes fair points and...