Police have arrested a 28 year-old man suspected of attacking an elderly Wairoa man in his home last week and a cellphone that was taken, containing the last photograph taken of the man’s late wife, has been recovered. The alleged offender was...
Gisborne builders are cracking on with cyclone repairs as a rise in demand for repair work coincides with a slowdown in the industry, Master Builders chief executive David Kelly says. Mr Kelly was in Gisborne last week to cast an eye over repair...
Victoria Cross recipient Willie Apiata and former New Zealand Defence Force colleagues have raised more than $200,000 for the people of Ngāti Porou hit by Cyclone Gabrielle on the East Coast. Personnel from Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) and New...
The “final” reunion for the foundation students of Lytton High School, 1961, has been so successful, they’re going to do it again. Organiser Bernie Priestley said 41 former students and 13 partners attended, including one couple who flew from...
A two-vehicle crash on Awapuni Raod led to tailbacks and traffic congestion this morning. A police spokesman said police were alerted to a crash involving at least two vehicles on Awapuni Road, near Commerce Place at about 7.15am. “Traffic...
The Gisborne-East Cape region has escaped the latest drenching from the sub-tropics, but more is forecast to arrive next weekend. This time around, while Northland, Auckland and Coromandel got a soaking, the heaviest falls in this part of the North...
An intellectually impaired man deported from Australia as a registered child sex offender failed to comply with his reporting obligations under the register here. Felony Mystikal Henessy Harvey Williams, 21, was placed on two years intensive...
Gisborne Volunteer Centre is calling out to organisations or individuals to nominate young people who volunteer in our community so they can be acknowledged and celebrated at a local Youth Award event later this month. “The local Youth Awards are...
Father sentenced to community detention, supervision A man snapped a tennis racquet while repeatedly walloping his 10-year-old daughter on the back of her legs as punishment for leaving a Coke can in her bedroom. The man was upset their dog had got...
Westpac Bank’s annual Chopper Appeal starts today and a Gisborne whānau is sharing their story to encourage donations to keep the community safe. With their Tiniroto home cut off by slips caused by Cyclone Gabrielle, the McNaught family had no...
The latest Covid-19 update from Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand Tairāwhiti shows case numbers are trending downward with the daily average at just over 12.3. Between eight and 23 cases were reported as of Friday last week. No one was in Gisborne...
The New Zealand Army Band is hoping to lift the spirits of the Tairāwhiti community after Cyclone Gabrielle, with a free concert at Gisborne Boys’ High School on Thursday. The family-friendly live show encompasses popular music, musical theatre...
Penguin protector in one corner; responsible dog owners in the other Wild animals doing what they’ve been doing for thousands of years versus the rights of responsible dog owners. There were not exactly howls of protest but the public provided...
Hee hee, looks like I got under someone’s skin a bit. For the record, I am not in the slightest bit interested in the editor’s alarmist figures trolled off the internet. I am a New Zealander. I trust our own Ministry of Health figures which...
I think there’ll be a huge sugar hit to housing investors if National ever becomes Govt. If they own a house with a loan of $400,000 at an interest rate of 7 percent, they will get an additional tax rebate of $10,920 each year if they’re on a 39...
It is a pity there isn’t a vaccine against stupidity — but if there was, those most in need would no doubt refuse on the grounds of their right to remain so. As the person whose letter to the editor kicked off the latest outburst of Covid-19...
by Sisilia Teu, Maxim Institute communications coordinator The internet has become an essential part of contemporary life, connecting billions of people while revolutionising how we interact, work, and access information. Over the years, the web’s...
Two news items last week related to the climate crisis deserve some extra attention, especially the latest report of the Climate Change Commission which was critical of the Emissions Trading Scheme. In effect the commission says that a new path is...
The missing parts of the writing process described today by our columnist are research and critical thinking. Being elderly isn’t an excuse for not applying some effort in this regard if you want to use your reckons to claim that politicians...
Craig Bauld From Uncle Craig’s Rocking Chair People seem to think that my occasional contributions are overly sharp, on the edge, whatever. Actually what you see is generally about fourth draft. First draft is genuinely cutting and dangerously...
I want to support the letter on Thursday from “Kia Ora” asking why the great song of the Māori Battalion is not sung at Anzac services. I have felt for many years that this rousing and historic song should be our second popular anthem — like...
CO2 is a greenhouse gas warming the atmosphere. In 1960-1970 the yearly growth rate of CO2 in the atmosphere was slightly less than 1 part per million but this has been steadily increasing, reaching 2.27ppm at the beginning of 2023. This means that...
More sub-tropical moisture is descending on the district, but MetService had no warnings for this region this morning. The last thing Gisborne and the East Coast need is another rain event, with 21 roads and 19 bridges still closed after earlier...
Two men have been jailed for an unprovoked attack on a bouncer at Gisborne’s Smash Palace bar, which left the man with irreparable eye damage. A patron was also attacked when he tried to intervene. He was knocked unconscious and three of his teeth...
Police investigating the head-on crash on State Highway 35 at Wainui on Thursday in which a pregnant woman suffered critical injuries, have appealed for witnesses to come forward. It was reported at around 9.40am and happened just west of the Onero...
The local SPCA is offering half-price animal adoption to encourage Gisborne people to welcome a furry friend into their homes. The special price is available from today, April 29, until May 7 to help find the stray animals warm and dry forever homes...
A customised trailer bearing the name Hear4U has been donated by two locals to further support the men’s mental health charitable trust. Trailer builder by profession Mason O’Dwyer and his friend Griffin Law built the room-sized trailer for the...
Gisborne and Wairoa have received just $1.17 million of the $22m New Zealand Disaster Fund being managed by the Red Cross but with $18m still unspent, the charity says more is on the way. “Close to $1.5m of the $3.98m spent via the New Zealand...
by Hamish Barwick Improvements in forestry earthworks, including roads and landing sites, and slash management, are vital to avoid another adverse weather event like Cyclone Gabrielle heavily impacting on the Gisborne and Wairoa regions. This is the...
There was a large yarding of 4255 sheep yarded at Matawhero yesterday, including 4034 store lambs. Prices paid remain steady; there was a premium for shorn lambs and the better male lambs. The average price paid fell by $8 due to the greater numbers...
There will be 15 Poverty Bay competitors in action next week at the North Island Dog Trial Championships on Lochinvar Station at Taupō. They will be running a total of 17 heading dogs and 23 huntaways. “There was still time for competitors to...
There is a deep and growing rift between “the West” and “the Rest” about the need to resist and defeat the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This is because it is really a war in defence of sovereignty, which ought to be something every sovereign...
I read in The Gisborne Herald that the tax on fuel will be going back to the full rate at the end of June this year. Well, three weeks ago when my wife and I were about to drive to Hamilton Hospital, we filled the car up with 91 and it was $2.35...