Community to consider moving town to higher ground Plans to relocate one of Te Karaka’s cyclone-affected marae to higher ground could herald the way for the entire township to move with the addition of a purpose-built emergency evacuation centre...
Questions have been asked about why Gisborne District Council has decided to turn this weekend into an extra long one for council staff. The council offices in Fitzherbert Street and Te Puia Springs will remain closed until next Wednesday, with all...
Should the council and/or the forestry companies be required to remove the heavier, dangerous pieces of wood debris from the beach now?
A Gisborne man accused of punching an older woman in the head during the heated Posie Parker protest in Auckland late last month appeared in court for the first time on Thursday, waving briefly to the magistrate before nervously folding his hands in...
Commissioner Foon ‘comfortable’ with donations to Labour MP Allan Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon is in the gun after revelations he gave significant financial support to Labour MP Kiri Allan in the lead-up to the 2020 election. Ms Allan...
Memorial cards honour WW1 soldiers killed far from home Sacred family heirlooms. That is how Colin Seymour feels about the photographs and postcard-type publications honouring his World War 1 serving relatives who lie “in a distant land”. One...
The amended version of Relay for Life 2023 proved a success despite being disrupted by flooding and Covid issues of the recent past. The revamped Relay Your Way raised $55,995 for Gisborne-East Coast Cancer Society, according to the Gisborne section...
The $200,000 project (above) to upgrade the Lytton Road culvert through which the Matokitoki Stream runs at Lytton West is nearing completion. Following Cyclone Gabrielle and the rain event at the end of February (right), extensive repairs were...
A large and dense smoke plume visible to the northwest of the city yesterday afternoon was from a controlled burnoff. Fire and Emergency NZ said it caused no problems. “We had no calls about it,” a senior Gisborne firefighter said. No further...
Daily 111 calls to police doubled in week following Gabrielle Crime levels in the region increased significantly after Cyclone Gabrielle but had returned to normal levels within a week, police statistics show. In the wake of the storm, police...
HARD work by contractors has seen the two piers that will support the Bailey bridge at Waikare Gorge on State Highway 2 between Wairoa and Napier now completed. However, it has not been enough to offset a delay to the timeline for opening the...
On a walk yesterday I crossed the Stanley Road footbridge and saw two supermarket trolleys in the river. I then crossed the Grundy Street footbridge and saw two more supermarket trolleys, a bicycle and a hospital-quality wheelchair in the stream...
The underlying tone of Dr Aitchison’s comments in the recent article about Three Rivers Medical being forced to reduce its hours of operation is to my mind, while giving a professional approach to our healthcare problems, almost desperate — and...
by Jason Heale, Maxim Institute communications manager The 1955 film “The Dam Busters” tells the story of Operation Chastise and the RAF’s plan to destroy Nazi dams with bouncing bombs. In the film’s climactic scenes, bombs go skimming...
The Independent Police Conduct Authority has given the officers involved in the riot that ended the 23-day occupation of Parliament a year ago a general clearance. However, police hierarchy has come in for some strong criticism with claims their...
Today is Poppy Day and Kirsty Gray and son Dane were among those to make a donation to to collector Maia Ferguson. Maia was part of a group of Campion College volunteers collecting money that will go towards supporting Returned and Services...
‘Trade-off’ from increasing number of Water Service Entities Gisborne District Council will no longer receive $21.62 million in Better Off funding as part of the Government’s relaunching of their water policy now known as Affordable Water...
Gisborne harbourmaster Peter Buell has urged everyone going out on a boat or jet ski to keep an eye out for large logs in the sea offshore of Gisborne and up the Coast. Logs and debris swept out to sea by Cyclone Gabrielle continue to float about in...
Cyclones Gabrielle and Hale and other recent rain events have destroyed an estimated 1200 beehives across Tairāwhiti and killed as many as 60 million bees in what a leading Gisborne apiarist describes as “considerable and widespread” impact...
With Anzac Day falling on Tuesday this year, police are expecting many people will have an extended long weekend. They are urging those travelling to wear seatbelts, to avoid driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, remove distractions, and...
A group of 16 young surf lifeguards from across the Eastern Region took part in an intermediate lifeguard development event in Gisborne over the weekend. The school provides junior lifeguards with skills, knowledge and connections to develop as...
A man accused of possessing drugs for supply at last December’s Rhythm and Vines concert — including the Class A substance LSD — is applying to be discharged without conviction. Rory Arthur Laurence Saunders, 20, was arrested just before...
Clearing drains and culverts too Recovery work has started on removing major log jams in the Te Arai River following Cyclone Gabrielle, with five priority sites identified. In March Gisborne District Council contractors completed clearing one site...
Regular lane swimmers and the general public who want to have a dip at the Olympic Pool will be glad of the news this morning that the water temperature has climbed back up to a balmy 29 degrees. The temperature has risen steadily since temporary...
Gisborne District Council offices in Fitzherbert Street and Te Puia Springs will be closed on Monday and Tuesday next week, along with the HB Williams Memorial Library. The council offices and the library will reopen on Wednesday April 26. The...
Two Gisborne locals are disappointed that organisers of the Mission Estate concert featuring music legends Sir Rod Stewart and Cyndi Lauper in Napier refused to refund or rebook their tickets. Lesley Turnbull and her friend Sally Raine booked...
Refusing to leave his ex-partner’s house where he had outstayed his welcome during a drinking session, a man got in a vehicle and drove it into a cabin on the property, oblivious to the fact there was someone inside it. Driving off, he refused to...
Gisborne Freemasons have handed over $30,000 for the Tairāwhiti Mayoral Relief Fund. All the lodges in New Zealand and some from overseas contributed to the amount. “It is probably the biggest and quickest collection of funds for such a cause in...
Moves are again being made to ensure the region’s children stay snug and warm this winter. Jammies 4 June Gizzy is heading into its seventh year and donations are being taken now, organiser Cassandra Blumfield says. “Jammies 4 June is a winter...
Bricks replaced books as the HB Williams Memorial Library’s popular school holiday programme continued yesterday. Grab Life By The Bricks was the name of a session run by Lego Masters NZ contestant Jono Samson and Nic Peeperkoorn. With such...
Mentally unwell people in Gisborne are being treated “appallingly” by the very service intended to help them, a lawyer says. Mark Sceats spoke passionately about his concern when addressing a judge in Gisborne District Court this week. His...
Gisborne's Cenotaph will be 100 years old on Anzac Day. The Poverty Bay Herald (as it was known back then) estimated 3000 people attended the official opening of what was then named the Gisborne War Memorial on Anzac Day, 1923 — less than five...
Bombarded by what seems to be an endless series of bad news, from extreme weather to a cost-of-living crisis, it is refreshing to get some positive news in the fact New Zealand is considering a bid for the 2034 Commonwealth Games. The NZ Olympic...
Bob Hughes cannot be allowed to blame colonisation and Pakeha farming methods for all of the deforestation and damage to Aotearoa. “When Māori arrived, about 1250-1300 CE, they burned large tracts of forest, mainly on the coasts and eastern sides...