It’s ironic in an age of information-sharing progressed by technological advancements, that we have self-appointed Information Czars who from their positions in society, determine what information they deem we should know — based solely on their...
An enduring popular myth suggests that in the 1970s the climate science community was predicting “global cooling” and an “imminent” ice age, an observation frequently used by those who would undermine what climate scientists say today about...
I am worried about the trains and the washout. I would like to get the Green Party or the Labour Party to fix our rail line. I have had enough. I am so angry. We will not give up!! Please wake up KiwiRail. We will have another Rail Action Group...
A man facing jail time for two drink-driving charges — both involving high readings — was instead put on home detention, largely because he had been declared legally blind since the offending. Selwyn George Te Puni, 57, was ushered into Gisborne...
A heritage building that the Gisborne District Council placed on private property without the landowner’s permission has a new home with a Tairāwhiti iwi. But a council report on the building — the Inner Harbour Wharf Shed — reveals its...
Gisborne's Sandra Matthews is standing for election to the Beef + Lamb New Zealand board of directors, an election that was postponed due to Cyclone Gabrielle. Voting papers were sent out on April 12 and should start arriving in the mail this week...
Co-governance isn’t always race based. We had the National Party government which did, and will do, co-governance under the guise of public-private partnerships, partial asset sales and management contracts. Each one of these were with corporates...
I read in Saturday night’s paper (in a letter to the editor) that I am not the only one who is appalled at the service at the local VTNZ vehicle testing station. I had the unfortunate need to take my daughter’s car back through for a recheck on...
Reaction to the announcement school funding for Years 4 to 8 will increase equivalent to class sizes being reduced by one will have been disappointing for the Government. Prime Minister Chris Hipkins and Education Minister Jan Tinetti, a former...
Most people remember their first few days in a new job, but for Tairāwhiti Police Constable Jacob Samuel only his second shift as a police officer will go down in the history books. Constable Samuel was starting a late shift on his second day on...
The police Impairment Prevention Team ran checkpoints in Gisborne over the weekend targeting drink-driving and speed, and 18 motorists were caught over the drink-drive limit. The focus of the two-day operation was on identifying impaired drivers and...
The first home built at Te Wharau o Hineakua, the Toitū Tairāwhiti Builtsmart facility, has been completed and delivered to a whānau in Whāngārā. On Monday, a significant milestone was reached when the first three-bedroom home was delivered to...
Local Government Minister Kieran McAnulty says Tairāwhiti’s voice will be heard under the relaunched Affordable Water Reforms. The minister, who was in Gisborne yesterday, also says the National Party is trying to scare the public over...
National Party MP and spokesman on water and the environment Scott Simpson is in Gisborne tomorrow and is keen to hear local views on water reforms and the environment. National released its Local Water Done Well policy recently which will replace...
An East Coast harbourmaster is calling for changes to the country’s boat ownership rules after a man abandoned his vessel and successfully evaded authorities for 12 months. It has been a year since ex-fishing trawler San Rosa washed up on a remote...
A Tolaga Bay man had what firefighters said was a lucky escape from serious injury or worse yesterday when his car went off State Highway 2 near the Waihau Bay corner, down a bank and struck a pine tree. Fire and Emergency units from Tolaga Bay and...
A young girl seriously injured when a log rolled on top of her on the city beachfront on Sunday afternoon was flown to Christchurch Hospital last night. Juliana Marston, 10, from Christchurch, suffered pelvic injuries in the mishap. Her father...
Victim suffered permanent hand damage, dogs destroyed, owner fined A man says he never wants to own dogs again after his two French mastiffs attacked a neighbour, leaving her traumatised and with permanent nerve damage in her hand. Shaun Vernon...
The United Nations has been called upon to investigate “the harm caused by the pine industry in Aotearoa New Zealand”. Gisborne woman Renee Raroa, a member of land use practice interest group Mana Taiao Tairāwhiti, presented the group’s...
Meat exporter with Gisborne beginnings helps cyclone recovery efforts by Andrea Fox, NZ Herald Exporter Greenlea Premier Meats has given $2 million to rural recovery efforts in the storm-battered East Coast, Northland and Hawke’s Bay regions and...
Gisborne’s first Chinese art exhibition, “Nature Harmony & Balance” opened at He Rau Aroha in Peel St on Friday night. Artworks of three Auckland-based Chinese artists – Jinshui Lin, Lei Shuqing and Xiaoming Tang — now adorn a section...
It was a roller coaster of emotions for Leo Hunter and Alys Mauheni from the Gisborne Hospital services team during an 11th-hour, two-day patient transfer, following Cyclone Gabrielle. Patients who had just received chemotherapy needed to return...
A man who terrorised a child in the front seat of a car when he swung an axe through the windscreen during a meth-fuelled rage has been sentenced to intensive supervision. The passenger was a girl, aged about 10, who screamed in fear as Kade Tuahine...
Four community groups were supported with grants totalling $178,000 in the latest distribution round from Trust Tairāwhiti. Hikurangi Enterprises Limited, a not-for-profit whānau housing initiative, was approved $113,000 to go towards lease costs...
Family of the 10-year-old girl seriously injured in a log incident on the beach along Centennial Marine Drive hope she will be flown home to Christchurch today. Juliana Marston was playing on the two-tonne, 7.5-metre log at around 4.30pm on Sunday...
The Olympic Pool was shut for some time yesterday after a boiler issue affected the water temperature, which had dropped to around 25 degrees over the weekend. Aquatics Manager Campbell Macgregor said it was an “unexpected boiler issue” and it...
Former Gisborne woman, police Assistant Commissioner Tusha Penny, is set to leave the police top brass on a temporary basis. Asst Comm Penny begins a two-year secondment to Oranga Tamariki next month. She is in charge of front-line capability for...
Tairāwhiti has taken another step towards having a resource recovery centre (RRC) aimed at significantly reducing landfill — but only if funding can be sourced. Gisborne district councillors, sitting at a full council meeting, decided to proceed...
Vortex Power Systems (VPS) expects to begin building its revolutionary electricity generating trial plant at Whangara by the end of May. The Auckland-based company has developed technology that converts low-grade waste heat into carbon-neutral clean...
Emergency services were called to a crash in MacDonald Road near Juken NZ last night in which a vehicle struck a concrete power pole. But when they arrived at the scene, no one was with the station wagon. “It was the third time we’ve been to...
Another of the region’s forestry companies is facing prosecution by Gisborne District Council for alleged poor harvesting practices said to have come to light after storm events in March of last year. A case against Forwood Forest Management...
News that Gisborne’s main water supply was identified as being at unacceptable risk of catastrophic failure months before it was broken in multiple places during Cyclone Gabrielle won’t come as a surprise to anyone familiar with the situation...
It’s hard these days not to feel sorry for someone who is white, straight and male. Taught throughout their education that they are irredeemably racist, they are condemned for their ethnicity, their masculinity, their cisgender normality, their...
You never miss your water ’til it’s dry. These past couple of months since Gabrielle have been a trial to say the least, for some more so than others. I just wanted to send a massive mihi to all our road workers and all the men and women who...