The $46 million Kiwa Pools facility is almost complete. “We are planning for a Kiwa Pools opening in time for spring,” Gisborne District Council chief executive Nedine Thatcher Swann said. Delays had been experienced in the construction due to...
A Gisborne forestry contracting business owner is “devastated” about having to pull the pin on his 23-year-old company. Robert Stubbs owns Stubbs Contractors Ltd and forestry has been his life. Before owning the business, he spent 10 years...
Gisborne was a symphony of car horns at lunchtime yesterday as a group of more than 50 people gathered to protest about proposed changes to the country’s medicine laws. The lunchtime demonstration at Heipipi Endeavour Park was organised by Theres...
A Gisborne man has pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm to an infant. The baby boy’s injuries were so severe, doctors did not expect him to survive. He now has extreme and permanent brain damage. For legal reasons, the man responsible...
Regions across Aotearoa New Zealand could probably learn a thing or two from Wairoa . . . especially when it comes to rolling up the sleeves and mucking in. Cyclone Gabrielle decimated Wairoa’s much-loved A&P Showgrounds. Water and silt ripped...
award-winning farmers Paul and Sarah Williams are farming for today with a keen eye to the future to ensure the cherished land at Turihaua is in the best possible shape for future generations. With three of their own children, they know only too...
by St John Craner Denial is a coping mechanism: “If I ignore it, it might go away.” The signs are there to tell you something. Yet most people never take action until they are forced to take action. Newton’s law of motion explains this human...
It’s the simplest of things in life that can have some of the biggest impacts. Just ask Wairoa’s rural community who attended the Backyard BBQs in the wake of the cyclones and other weather that ravaged the region this year. The initiative came...
Marie Burke has a dream to see Farmer Time as a regular part of children’s education across the land and she is constantly moving closer to making that a reality. She’s thriving as the national coordinator for the programme that connects farmers...
There’s more than just growing top crops going on at the Wi Pere Trust. The finalists in the Ahuwhenua Trophy —Excellence in Māori Horticulture are equally about their people, future generations and kaitiakitanga. It’s the guardianship and...
Matawai dog triallist Samantha Shaw was the toast of the Poverty Bay Dog Trial Centre after her three-four finish in the zig-zag hunt final at the New Zealand championships at the Warepa Collie Club grounds near Balclutha last week. Hers was the...
These five- and six-year ewes from Eastland Farms Ltd — Strathblane Station, at Hangaroa, sold for $129 at Friday’s weekly sheep sale at the Matawhero saleyards. They were carrying good body condition, were scanned in lamb with single lambs and...
by Gwynne Dyer “Sometimes I think it’s as if aliens have landed and people haven’t realised because they speak very good English,” said Geoffrey Hinton, the “godfather of AI” (Artificial Intelligence) who now fears his god-children will...
The forestry industry in this region has taken a hammering over the destruction and mess caused by slash and whole pine trees that washed and slipped into waterways during heavy rain events earlier this year. That has been keenly felt by our 900 or...
The foundations for the first house in Gisborne’s biggest new residential development in 15 years have been laid. Contractors Quebik carried out the first concrete pour for the first house to be built at the new Oakview development on Hansen Road...
A domino effect of call-outs saw the Trust Tairāwhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter off-base for nearly 20 hours last week, with a sister service swooping in to provide cover for the region. The series of events started when, just after 2pm on Friday...
Mourners at Colin Worsnop’s funeral on Saturday witnessed a special moment when the grape harvesting company he worked for for 43 years fulfilled a family wish. Bay Grape Harvesters Ltd owners and father and son Reid and Andrew Fletcher used their...
American surfer Fredric Hodgson, known to many in the surfing fraternity in Gisborne as Rick Hodgson, passed away earlier this year in Malibu, California at the age of 73. He spent many summers of his life at Wainui Beach. An obituary in the Malibu...
The Te Ahu Kauawhi taskforce working to collect Census forms in the Tairāwhiti community ended their house to house visits yesterday. But a Census spokesperson said there will still be opportunities for people to complete it. “There will continue...
Another Secondhand Sunday rolls around this weekend and the Gisborne District Council has urged the community to register for it so fossickers can find the right places. People with household items to give away, should register their address on the...
Monday night’s rain proved the region’s roads are vulnerable to further rain on top of what the year has already delivered. The weather system put on a show of thunder and lightning on the hills inland of Tolaga Bay and the rain saw the Hikuwai...
The former Woodrose Furnishings shop has been demolished to make way for a new Kāinga Ora housing development. The building was demolished last week. “Kāinga Ora is partnering with ICONIQ Group and has an agreement with them to purchase 10 new...
Gisborne chardonnay was the star at the weekend, whether sipped on a steam train, in a vineyard or at the Black House luxury lodge, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Marking International Chardonnay Weekend, The Chardonnay Affair was made up of four...
Firefighters were called to a house in Devery Street in Mangapapa on Monday after a fire started in a car parked in a carport, started when hot tea towels fresh from a dryer caught fire inside the car. Fire and Emergency NZ sent crews to the...
A Herculean 30 tonne slow speed shredder is perhaps the one-stop solution that Gisborne needs, when it comes to dealing with issues such as slash. The $900,000 Terex 820 machine was donated to Gisborne company Harrison Bulk Haulage, by an Auckland...
State Highway 2 between Wairoa and Napier will be open around the clock from today, said Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency. That stretch of highway suffered the most destruction as a result of Cyclone Gabrielle, with damage to around 100 sites...
National arboretum laying down a blueprint for the next 100 years.
Gisborne nurses will hold stop work meetings on Thursday to discuss a Te Whatu Ora pay offer which their union says falls short of the rate of inflation. Nurses who are members of New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) will meet at one of 57...
Awhina Kaihe, Ngāti Porou, Ruatoria, is living her best life as a kaiāwhina with Turanga Health. The former teacher aide and mother of one joined the iwi health organisation in September 2022 and says working in primary health services for whānau...
The annual grain maize harvest still has about six weeks to run. Corson Grain’s procurement manager Richard Hyland said they have been making good progress. “We’d be about 60 percent through and harvesting will continue through into late...
The charity formerly known as Stroke Tairāwhiti has amalgamated with the Stroke Foundation New Zealand. The partnership will provide additional resources, expertise, health promotion and marketing capacity, and the ability to lobby government as...
Matawai dog triallist Samantha Shaw finished third and fourth in the zig zag hunt final at the New Zealand championships at the Warepa Collie Club grounds near Balclutha on Friday. She and Rogue had finished in third place in the South Island...
The district is having a warm start to winter, with a mild May producing above-normal temperatures for the time of year. Daytime highs over the month have been running at almost 1.3 degrees warmer than the 17.7 degree average for the 30 years...
Clive Bibby So much has happened since Cyclones Gabrielle and Hale delivered what might be the killer blow to the hopes and dreams of some decent, law-abiding contributors to this region’s and the nation’s economy. It is as if the world stood...