A new review is now under way to check the state of Tairāwhiti’s regional fresh water and the Waipaoa catchment plan. Led by the Gisborne Distrcit Council, the Waipaoa Catchment Plan (WCP) was developed alongside the Regional Freshwater Plan and...
Welfare centres are set up around the region as Tairawhiti remains under a Red heavy rain warning until midday on Sunday. Extra staff were arriving from around the country yesterday afternoon to bolster the numbers for a regional response, from the...
Hangaroa residents are on high alert after rain continues to pelt down across the region. Resident Alex Campbell said the continuous downpour had caused the road passing through the Hangaroa Bluffs to be closed due to slips at the entrance. “The...
Rainfall over the region in the past few days has reached historic record levels, and a Red heavy rain warning remains in place through Sunday. Some relief came yesterday afternoon, with an easing of the downpour, and river levels were given...
In the Wild West the Pony Express saying was “the mail must get through”. Well in the ‘Wild East’ the same can be said of getting the Gisborne Herald out to people in the past 48 hours. Friday’s paper was trucked down from the printing...
Gisborne District Council put out a list of road closures yesterday afternoon for the Waipaoa and Hikurangi networks due to the latest heavy rain, after advice from their contractors. Waipaoa Lavenham Road, flooding Hihiroroa Road South 4-9km mark -...
Countdown’s Gisborne store will operate normally while the region is under a State of Emergency. “Our thoughts are with everyone in Tairāwhiti and Hawke’s Bay with unfolding weather events once again hitting the region,” Countdown’s...
State Highway 2 between Wairoa and Napier reopened following work to clear fallen debris yesterday morning after it was closed on Thursday night because of surface flooding and slips. “SH2 will be under temporary traffic control, so road users are...
Iwi at Te Karaka are looking after the township, saying they have lost trust in the Gisborne District Council-led Civil Defence Emergency (CDEM)management because of how it managed the response to Cyclone Gabrielle in February. The community and iwi...
Affco Wairoa has been fined just over half a million dollars for a worker’s death described by a judge as “wholly avoidable”. Sentencing the company in Gisborne District Court yesterday, Judge Warren Cathcart said an old freezer facility in...
The East Coast Angus Association made the decision yesterday to postpone all the Angus rising two-year-old bull sales for a week, because of the bad weather. The sales were to have started yesterday at Ratanui Angus at Tuai, with that sale postponed...
I believe the (Iranian) regime will fall within a couple of years,” said Mohsen Sazegara. “It’s very different from three years ago, when they suppressed demonstrations Gwynne Dyer in just five days. And the movement is spread all around the...
A record wet first half of the year for this region is getting wetter and while everyone is well and truly over the continual rain, hearts are again going out to those most affected — especially the people of Te Karaka who were evacuating their...
Kia ora tatau/Dear readers. Not long ago I used to be a regular contributor to this opinion page. I ceased when health challenges forced me to redirect my energy and interests to my immediate and extended whaanau. The internet and social media now...
Ann David The Shortland Street episode of June 21 portrays a scenario where an unconscious man on life support has written an advance directive rejecting precisely such support in that situation. His loving wife, believing she is doing the right...
Re: Pensioner bashed at Posie Parker protest. The 71-year-old woman is upset to hear the 20-year-old man who attacked her from behind with a blow to the head, then threw punches to her face, has been granted diversion and name suppression. He was...
Clive e hoa, Whitu tekau ma toru ōku tau. He Pakeha ahau. Kei te ako ahau i te reo Māori. Ki tāku whakaaro ko tāku kawenga i raro i Te Tiriti. Kei te pirangi au ki te mōhio ki ngā korero kei muri i ngā ingoa Māori o ngā wāhi. Ma te mōhio...
What is happening to New Zealand Post? It seems ironic that NZ Post will increase the cost of postage on July 1, yet have such poor service for mail delivery — one wonders how they can justify it. I ordered stamps from the stamp and collectable...
An elderly woman was rushed into the city fire station yesterday afternoon in pain and distressed, unable to remove a ring from her ring finger. A friend took the woman, whose finger was badly swollen, to the Fire and Emergency station at around...
Twelve bands from Tairāwhiti are poised to exhibit their musical prowess as they play off in the regional final of the Smokefreerockquest at the War Memorial Theatre on Saturday. The competition, now in its 36th year, involves thousands of young...
The wet weather has forced the postponement of the first of the Angus rising two-year-old bull sales in the region this season. Ratanui Angus at Tuai were to have started the ball, or should that be bull, rolling this afternoon. But it has been...
The Gisborne Volunteer Centre’s Two Minutes of Good Stuff film festival has been postponed. Centre manger Jenny Greaves said unfortunately they had to make the call to postpone today’s event, after taking into consideration the continuous rain...
A Mongrel Mob man aggrieved over a gang issue chased a woman around a residential street with a machete and used it to damage her vehicle. The incident in Hansford Court, Kaiti, on November 19, last year, resulted in Steven Christopher Fa’Ae...
Auditions for musical comedy School of Rock, produced by Musical Theatre Gisborne, are on this weekend. Andrew Lloyd Webber bought the rights to the show for a stage musical in 2013. The musical has a book by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes...
The impact of Cyclone Gabrielle on the wine industry will be long lasting, says GisVin chief winemaker and chairman of Gisborne Winegrowers Mark Thompson. Like Hawke’s Bay, Gisborne received around two-and-a-half times the long-term average...
Kōrero and haka from rangatahi were centre stage at this year’s Ngā Manu Kōrero and Kapa Haka festival hosted by Lytton High School. This was the 58th year of the annual event which sees rangatahi from different kura across Tairāwhiti compete...
Reviving the retro (some might argue it never went out of fashion) skill of roller skating is the aim of local start-up Gizzy on Wheels. The first session will be at the YMCA in July. Founder and home-schooled Adriana Hoogland, 18, said she first...
When Janet leaves her daughter’s Vogel St house, she still locks the front door out of habit. The place has long been gutted of its contents, Cyclone Gabrielle having turned its interior into a muddy pool by way of a flooded Waimatā River...
Every time it starts to rain, I start worrying.” These are the fears of many Gisborne-East Coast residents as downpours once again deluge the district — fears that were realised when Te Karaka residents were given notice yesterday afternoon to...
Gisborne Mayor Rehette Stoltz declared a State of Emergency late yesterday afternoon as rivers rose and rain continued to fall across an already sodden region. “This gives our whānau and community a chance to self-evacuate tomorrow and make...
The MetService has extended the region's Severe Weather Warning through to midday, Sunday. The forecast is for a prolonged period of rain, which is expected to be heavy at times. "Expect 250 to 350 mm of rain to accumulate about and north of Tolag...
The Government has jettisoned a capable and hard-working minister with a major blindspot for conflicts of interest, after it emerged that Michael Wood had more undeclared shareholding interests in areas that clashed with his portfolios. Prime...
Natasha Baulis, Maxim Institute researcher Our collective noses have been crinkling at the distinct whiff of something not quite right in the press for some time now, but last week was a particular corker for unveiling some fishy elements of the NZ...
E nga whānau and community of the Tairāwhiti region. Ka nui te mihi ki a koutou kua tauawhi ki a matau whanau, ahakoa nga piki me nga heke ka titiro angawhakamua matau. As the former Race Relations Commissioner, I want to express my heartfelt...