Gisborne District Council’s 2023/2024 Annual Plan has a short-term focus on repairing roads and bridges, and resilience work for the city’s water supply system. It sets out what the council can commit to delivering over the next financial year...
Comet and Enterprise swim clubs are local businesses most families in Gisborne have supported over many decades. We are told constantly to “ buy local”, so what was GDC thinking when they gave the pool contract to an out-of-country company? We...
Re: An overheated pot . . . June 6 letter. Very good Norman. This is of course your opinion, and you are entitled to it. And I commend you on your reporting accuracy, though you have cheekily taken some comments out of context. That Aimee is on your...
All the world was a stage in Gisborne over King's Birthday Weekend . . . from dancing to hot-rodding; from football to snooker. There were winners, losers, champions and also-rans, but most of all there were people simply doing what they love doing
by Rachel Smalley, NZME A Gisborne family has moved to Auckland to be closer to the intensive medical treatment their daughter needs. The rare genetic disorder she was diagnosed with can be picked up at a pre-symptomatic stage and a specialist is...
A CATPLAN, the regional catastrophic plan for Te Tairāwhiti, is being developed to respond to a potential magnitude 9 earthquake and tsunami caused by an eruption on the Hikurangi Subduction zone which lies off the East Coast. It’s being...
A shed attached to a home in Devery Street in Mangapapa was gutted by fire on Tuesday night and firefighters worked hard to stop the fire spreading to involve the house. A woman in the home noticed a smell of smoke at around 11pm, found the shed...
Mokairau Herefords at Whangara enjoyed an almost total clearance yesterday morning in their rising two-year-old bull sale, with a top price of $11,000, and a better average across the sale than last year. The stud sold 19 of their young bulls at...
A Wairoa man who became the face of the displaced vulnerable people left in the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle has finally returned to friends and family in his lifelong hometown. Gavin Jones, a 69-year-old with an intellectual disability, returned to...
Tairāwhiti-based Rua Bioscience yesterday announced the first revenue from sales of products in Germany after the first full month of sales. “The response to the Rua products has exceeded our expectations and they been very well received by...
Three Gisborne youths were arrested after a fleeing driver incident in a stolen car across the Hawke’s Bay area on Tuesday morning. Police received a report of a Toyota vehicle being driven erratically in Napier at about 7am. It was reported...
Taonga Māori held at the Tairāwhiti Museum will be looked after by two more kaitieki Māori as the team has grown. Maia Keane (Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Rongowhakaata) and Kataraina Hoko (Rongowhakaata, Ngāti Porou) have joined the museum as the...
Residents of a “forgotten” Gisborne road are bracing for winter in caravans and makeshift living arrangements as they wait to get back into their homes. Eighty-one-year-old Jim Cowan lives alone at Waipaoa, where he has been for 55 years. His...
Angus Bull Week contributed more than $4.2 million to the regional economy last year in what was a record sales season for all breeds. With the other rising two-year-old bull sales added to Bull Week’s Angus total, the overall figure was $5.6m. It...
Comment by Kate Acland, B+LNZ Board Chair There has been a lot of media speculation about a possible fertiliser tax and what this means for agricultural emissions pricing and the He Waka Eke Noa partnership, so I wanted to update you on this issue...
I would like to join the expressions of disappointment in the GDC decision to overlook Comet Swimming Club for the Learn to Swim contract at the new Kiwa Pools. It seems somewhat ironic that one of the so-called benefits of the council preferred...
In case readers missed it, a group of Earth Commission scientists tell us the Earth has pushed past seven out of eight scientifically established safety limits into “the danger zone”, and that the Earth is “really quite sick right now”...
Would have been good to have had the rail south back in operation during the past few months — it would have saved the country a fortune, possibly more than it would have cost for rail repairs. Oh well, never mind, let’s just keep getting all...
by Gwynne Dyer “Guys just had this blood-lust. Psychos. Absolute psychos. And we bred them.” So said an Australian soldier about the war crimes committed by the Australian SAS (Special Air Service) when the scandal first broke in 2016. And the...
New Zealand’s electoral system has been under review and recommendations we’ve heard before, plus some new ones, are the result of 58 public meetings and an independent panel of legal experts having considered more than 1700 public submissions...
Hannah Gross suffered a massive head injury as a toddler. Now aged 41, as her condition deteriorates, work by Gisborne’s Mātai Medical Research Institute is providing a deeper insight into her injury. Kiri Gillespie, of the Bay of Plenty Times...
Fridges are among the household appliances ruined in many homes by the contaminated floodwaters of Cyclone Gabrielle. The Rotary Club of Gisborne has handed over the first of seven fridge-freezers bought with Rotary International funds for district...
An independent third-party commissioned report highlights Tairāwhiti Civil Defence’s critical timeline as the organisation prepared, responded and flew into action when Cyclone Gabrielle hit the region. Gabrielle came hard on the back of two...
Gisborne District Council has updated the rural access reinstatement situation across the region with work continuing on road works, bridge remediation, silt removal, woody debris treatment, and drainage improvements. More than 40 crews continue to...
Known as a director for many Unity Theatre shows, Norman Maclean has not performed on stage for 49 years but has made a comeback for Evolution Theatre Company’s production of Love Letters. The epistolary nature of the play appealed to Maclean...
Horsepower of the non-equine variety was on show at a fundraiser for Gisborne Riding For The Disabled at the RDA arena at Showgrounds Park over the weekend. The featured an impressive line-up of hot rods and custom cars including street machines...
Trust unaware until six days after processing second payment A cyclone recovery grant was issued to a forestry company nearly three months after it ceased trading and 12 days after it went into liquidation, Regional Economic Development Agency Trust...
The chair of a Tairāwhiti governance group has expressed disappointment at the recent departure of key stakeholders from its ranks. Rau Tipu Rau Ora (RTRO) was set up in 2020 to lead a region-wide response to Covid-19, and includes representatives...
The latest rain over the Gisborne-East Coast region does not appear to have caused any serious problems although it is keeping the region’s soils at saturation level. The slopes of the Raukumara Ranges have copped most of the recent rain, with no...
Gisborne Dog Training Club’s annual obedience and agility championship was held over two days at the A&P Showgrounds on King’s Birthday Weekend. About 77 ability dogs, who carried out 400 runs on the obstacle course, and 50 obedience dogs...
Surfer Saffi Vette is set to join Gisborne’s list of Olympians after provisionally qualifying for the Paris Games at the International Surfing Association (ISA) World Surfing Games in El Salvador yesterday. Vette was knocked out of the women’s...
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There has been a lot of media speculation about a possible fertiliser tax and what this means for agricultural emissions pricing and the He Waka Eke Noa partnership, so I wanted to update you on this issue. We are committed to playing our part on...
The tiresome frequency with which Iain Boyle attempts to persuade this district to reject the present Government is very easily disregarded, but his conviction that he understands politics, academia, school curricula and goodness knows what else...