A new mental health and addictions facility for the Tairāwhiti community has moved a step closer, with the first concrete being poured for the building’s base. Te Whare Awhiora will replace the Te Whatu Ora Tairāwhiti mental health and...
Uncertainty around flood-damaged homes dominates mood at GDC drop-in session.
Former Gisborne mayor Meng Foon believes he has been hard done by in the situation that forced his dramatic fall from the position of Race Relations Commissioner on Friday. He has told The Gisborne Herald the payments that led to his withdrawal were...
For an electrical engineer, Simin Williams makes some strange connections, and shows a false understanding of the parliamentary power system. Among 11 crossed wires (and admittedly, two good power-points), the most shocking is her fantasy that the...
The Whoon Effect is a phenomenon where people in positions of responsibility have a perceived sense of grandiosity that relieves them of all the responsibilities of citizenry and intones that they are a law unto themselves. The Whoon Effect also...
I have visited friends in our hospital over the past few weeks and am appalled at the abuse of the once pristine grass verges on the lawn edges, mainly in the area in front of the main entrance, but elsewhere on the grounds. People have been parking...
I wish to send a huge thanks to members and friends of Te Hapara Gardening & Floral Art club for a delightful luncheon and enjoyable activities to raise $500, which has been donated to the local Cancer Society for support throughout the Gisborne...
Early last year our country was struck by an extraordinary event, the Freedom Protest Rally to and at Parliament. Convoys started from each end of the country and gathered huge support, but there was virtually no mention of them in the media until...
Firefighters from Gisborne and Te Karaka turned out early yesterday morning after a ute on a property at Ormond caught fire, and flames threatened a nearby haybarn. The 111 call came in at around 1.30am. “The resident saw an orange glow outside...
The historic building on the corner of Marina Park is having urgent repair work done around it after its front deck and the riverbank were heavily damaged during Cyclone Gabrielle. Gisborne District Council Journeys infrastructure manager Dave...
Water heating woes continued at the Olympic Pool at the weekend and this time it came down to supply issues with the woodchip used in the complex’s boiler. Pool management advised regular patrons of the situation by email on Saturday. They were...
More rain, more flooding, more slips and road damage and more misery for Gisborne-East Coast residents suffering from one of the wettest years in recent memory. The weekend brought another deluge, courtesy of a turbulent and slow-moving weather...
Tessa Allan I feel I have stepped into the role of president at the Gisborne Chamber of Commerce at a pivotal time for our local businesses. We are facing some serious challenges as a business community after Covid-19 and Cyclone Gabrielle and...
One of New Zealand’s top young entrepreneurs is eyeing Gisborne as the next location for his multimillion-dollar valued company Aotearoa Labour Hire (ALH) as he shoots for a $100 million-a-year goal. Former Lytton High student and ALH managing...
Unheard of” tech opportunities are in the pipeline for people here with British design giant Arup. Last month, the company started a three-year pilot programme to bring paid interns from Gisborne under its tutelage. Pavaris “Bomb” Kakanat is...
The frightening and furious power of nature hit the Gisborne-East Cape region with full force at the weekend, as the fiercest thunder and lightning storm in many years hit the region. Records indicate it was the strongest lightning storm since the...
Greenpeace has released a short documentary featuring Tairawhiti’s Tui Warmenhoven (Ngāti Porou), who is a community leader, lawyer, researcher and the Greenpeace Aotearoa board chair. Warmenhoven has witnessed the terrible impacts of cyclones...
A final call is being put out for owners of heritage properties in Gisborne to apply for grants through this year’s National Heritage Preservation Incentive Fund. The annual fund provides financial incentives to encourage the conservation of...
The arrival of two new team members brings the Trust Tairāwhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter team of critical care flight paramedics up to the optimum number needed to operate in the region. The news gets even better. The service on Friday learned it...
More than a dozen community members were given full training on how to create activated biochar and smokeless briquettes at Tolaga Bay Innovation Hub last month. After their recent success of placing second in Tairāwhiti’s Start-up Weekend event...
Mitigating flood risks to future-proof properties across Tairāwhiti is a mammoth task for authorities and the many affected residents that will take time to work through and implement solutions at both the community and property level. For anyone...
Simin Williams I should have saved my “hypocrisy reeks to heaven” heading for this news item “Shaw advocates for solar energy” (June 14), or maybe we can make a regular column under that heading as we head into election season! Let’s first...
Referencing Simin Williams’ response to the advice to “take a break and breathe deep”, in her letter of Thursday, June 15. What would you call someone whose obsession with Jacinda Ardern, attributes to her all the woes of the country? What...
Like Lara Meyer, I would like to know how Peter Jones believes our region should address eroding land and keeping people employed. There are a vast number of anti-pine critics out there who haven’t a clue of the scale of erosion or downstream...
“Staggering” she could even have stood up with that much alcohol in her system before she got in the car: Judge A woman was nearly five and a half times over the legal alcohol limit for driving when she hit a parked car on Lyell Road...
With more rain in the pipeline for the Gisborne region, it is no surprise the first half of the month has been woefully short on sunshine. After the first 15 days of June, sunshine at Gisborne totalled a miserable 42 hours. The latest 30-year...
Wairoa and Gisborne mayors have welcomed news of a new air route linking Gisborne and Hawke’s Bay. North Island airline Sunair Aviation is launching a new weekday service connecting Napier and Wairoa, and Napier and Gisborne, starting at the end...
St John has put a call out for people to join as a Major Incident Support Team volunteer — a team who provide a world-leading response to major incidents and large events across the country. MIST, as it is known, requires non-clinical people to...
A grandiose, dramatic and energetic display of baroque music is on offer when the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra returns to Tairawhiti on Tuesday. The Gisborne performance is part of the NZSO’s Baroque Innovations tour directed by orchestr...
House prices here continue to fall but realtors do not expect the market’s mid-winter blues to last much longer. Latest data from the Real Estate Institute (REINZ) shows the region’s median price is down $65,000 from a year ago. “Gisborne’s...
A $70,000 grant from the New Zealand Disaster Fund is supporting crews as they go door-to-door in Wairoa to help clean up homes. Nearly half of the funds raised by the New Zealand Disaster Fund have been issued in the form of grants from the New...
Due to wet weather expected next week, planned asphalting work on State Highway 2 will start on the evening of Wednesday, June 21, or the next fine night. The area between Matawai township and Waioeka Gorge will be under a full road closure, with no...
Te Kiwi Tuaro a-Motu-National Volunteer Week runs from Monday to Saturday of next week and among the many organisations that rely heavily on volunteers is Surf Life Saving New Zealand (SLNZ). Leading up to the week, SLSNZ has profiled a number of...
The scale of work to remove flood-damaged Te Reinga Bridge near Wairoa this week is unlike anything else Wairoa-based Quality Roading and Services and other contractors have worked on. The 300-tonne Te Reinga Bridge was collapsed into the river on...