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Outside helicopters assist in region's hectic day of rescues

Wednesday was a hectic day for helicopter rescues in the region with the Trust Tairāwhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter backed up by aircraft from outside the district. The day started early for the local team with a 3am call-out to a medical event in...

Jenga with te reo twist

Rangatahi of Tāiki e Next Gen have created a fun and different way of learning te reo Māori — a new game called Hēnga. It’s Jenga with a twist. The giant blocks have different questions around te reo Māori me ōna tikanga (the Māori...

Gisborne's Coxco staff contribute to beach clean-up

Coxco staff rolled up their sleeves and got stuck into some beach clean-up work on the city beachfront yesterday as an opportunity to give back to the Tūranganui-a-Kiwa community. The company had 25 staff, including 10 from Wairoa who travel to...

Campaign pledges for doctor training

Strikes by senior doctors and dentists who work at public hospitals, as the election approaches, are an embarrassment for the Government but also underline serious flaws in the country’s medical system. The senior doctors point to some desperate...

Call a public meeting with Rocket Lab in Gisborne

Re: Enabling race in space between superpowers, Sept 13. Hi Manu, it is amazing to read your letter and the knowledge you have against Rocket Lab. Do you support Sonya Smith and her small group calling themselves “Rocket Lab Monitor”? Do you...

Luxon has left door open, wisely

Next Tuesday’s television “head to head” between Chris Hipkins and Christopher Luxon, regarding the policies of the two major contender parties, will make for great TV. At this stage, the polls are showing that Labour’s policies as they now...

Man's dive down rabbit hole leads to 'disturbing places', 'extreme' offending

A man’s vast collection of objectionable publications included many “so extreme” that a sentencing judge could say little to describe them and asked media to be similarly cautious in reporting the facts.

Take a te reo moment

Te Wiki o te Reo Māori is the one week every year that Aotearoa New Zealand has dedicated to celebrating and promoting the language of the land and its people. It is a chance for anyone to share and celebrate different aspects of the language —...

Books bound for Papua New Guinea

Sophie Cairns is heading to Papua New Guinea tomorrow with a team of five others to set up two school libraries and fill them with books they have collected over the past year. She is part of a charity called From Me which collects donations of...

Doctors' strike action set to escalate

Gisborne Hospital senior doctors went on another two-hour strike yesterday as they continue to campaign for wage increases that reflect the cost of living. Thousands of senior doctors and dentists who work at Te Whatu Ora public hospitals and health...

Supergrans to benefit from memorial motorcycle ride

A sausage sizzle and memorial motorcycle ride will take place on Saturday, to raise money for charity and mark Motorbike Awareness Month. The Gisborne Road Pirates Social Motorcycle Club (RPSMC) annual Hayden Miller Memorial Charity Run will leave...

Connecting with te reo

Learning te reo Māori helps bring more of an understanding about the culture and people it is from. This is what te reo Māori student Amanda Clarke, 47, feels about learning the language of Aotearoa New Zealand. As a full-time worker, with family...

Loisels residents stranded and frustrated after June storm destroys access road

Residents of a remote East Coast beach community have been forced to purchase additional vehicles to reach town after a part of their road slid down a cliff after a June storm.

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Pre-election forecast bleak but not all bad

As bad as probably expected, but better than some thought — that would sum up Treasury’s Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Update released yesterday afternoon. Pundits have been warning that Prefu, as it has become known, would show a gloomy...

Beyond emotivism: how does this make you feel?

Natasha Baulis, Maxim Institute researcher Reading a recent article by Stuff, I was struck once again by a strong sense of frustration at their “How does this story make you feel?” survey. Frustration, however, was not one of the six options...