Hipkins to visit Tairāwhiti regularly to keep informed about district's recovery from Cyclone Gabrielle

Police have discounted what they call “false speculation” that a second person can be seen with missing Gisborne man Joseph Ahuriri in a CCTV recording taken the night he disappeared. Mr Ahuriri was pictured with his Toyata Hilux ute at the...

The Nick's Head Charity Fishing Competition being held this weekend will raise more money to help Tairawhiti children who have cancer or diabetes. Organiser Andrea Gregory spoke to Planet Sunshine clinical nurse manager Deb McKay to ask her what the...

Re: Parking issues. Sorry Alain but you are dealing with a group of people at the council who for years have thought that they are a law unto themselves — the fancy new council building (which was opposed by the majority of ratepayers) is testament...

A Tairāwhiti-based small business is using a Workbridge-operated digital programme to combat technology challenges faced by people with disabilities. Workbridge is a not-for-profit organisation that helps people with disabilities and other mental or...

The heroes of D-Day were honoured at the RSA yesterday 75 years after Allied forces landed in France to begin the liberation of Nazi-occupied Europe. While international dignitaries attended commemorations in sunny Normandy, a small group honoured...

If there’s one thing that’s worse than apathy, it’s empty virtue-signalling. All over New Zealand, local councils have been falling over themselves to declare a “climate emergency”, but unless I’m missing something, there has been little...

A MALE kayaker died yesterday morning after being caught by floodwaters in a river south of Lake Whakamarino at Tuai inland from Wairoa. Police said in a statement that an emergency locator beacon was activated on the Waikaretaheke River just after...

A woman was seconds from being hit by an out-of-control car which crashed through fences of two Rutene Road properties last night. Residents along Rutene Road, just past the Tyndall Road turn-off, heard a “horrific bang” at around 9.15pm. An owner...

Two of Gisborne’s biggest organisations have committed to tackling the “climate crisis” by reducing greenhouse gas emissions through the Climate Leaders Coalition. Established in July 2018, the coalition (CLC) includes some of New Zealand’s...

A Northern Giant Petrel/Pangurunguru that turned up on the East Coast last month was 40 years old. The bird arrived in Gisborne on board a log vessel and flew off on February 3 before being found at Waikanae Beach two days later. It was taken to the...

A woman was jailed for 24 months for her 11th and 12th drink-drive offences and was refused leave to apply for home detention by Judge Allen Roberts in Gisborne District Court. The judge dismissed as “unrealistic” the recommendation of...

At the risk of being called a bigot and shining forth like a beacon, I would like to also endorse the idea outlined in a recent letter from Kevin Missen. As supposedly mature people, the confrontational approach and attacking the messenger rather...

Giving tamariki the opportunity to access and learn about virtual reality was the aim of a three-day wananga at Pākōwhai Marae. Tōnui Collab set up at Pākōwhai, located between Pātūtahi and Waituhi, and invited tamariki to experiment with...

Candidates from the Tairawhiti Economic Support Package Redeployment Programme attend speed interview hui, organised by Turanga Ararau

While it was a milestone for the Government’s housing programme, the opening of the first KiwiBuild houses in Auckland at the weekend showed how difficult the task of Housing Minister Phil Twyford is. The first 18 houses were opened in Auckland’s...

Surf Life Saving New Zealand (SLSNZ) wants Kiwis to consider beach safety when they purchase those beach activity-based Christmas gifts over the next few weeks. SLSNZ has compiled a “shopping list” of common beach activity-themed gifts, along...

Wairoa's farming community and supporters left visiting MPs with no doubt that they were against the government's He Waka Eke Noa farm-level emissions pricing proposal, at a meeting this week. More than 250 people attended the Wairoa District...

More than half of respondents to this week's Herald web poll prefer a four-day working week. Fifty-two percent (156 people) answered “yes” to the question “Would you like to work four days a week and have a three-day weekend?”Twenty-six...

Re: Treatment insufficient, September 6 story. I know Alison Jackson’s daughter Leigh and her husband Wayne well. They are lovely people. The unfortunate demise of Alison at Dunblane Rest Home should not have occurred. However, throughout the lives...

Re: Aquifer recharge vs surface water storage, November 10 comments. And what of the fact that the aquifers in Turanganui a Kiwa, all known by Maori and which form part of the indigenous estate under the UN Declaration of Indigeneous Rights signed by...

Eastland Port expected a continued strong flow of logs through the port in June and that has become the case, with seven shipments scheduled between now and June 21. The logger Singan has been alongside the wharf loading for China since yesterday and...

TAIRAWHITI people have shown their creative streaks when it comes to face masks, as evidenced in the examples posted on The Gisborne Herald Facebook page. With the wearing of masks becoming mandatory in places such as supermarkets, dairies and...

IN the lead-up to the 30Forward show at the War Memorial Theatre tomorrow, Wellington-based Footnote dance company yesterday gave a sneak preview with a free performance at the museum.“It has been a real privilege to have you in the galleries,”...

Eastland Port is still feeling the effects of weather events over the past few weeks. Before the two floods on June 4 and June 12, there were about 12,000 tonnes of logs coming to the port each day. This dropped to as low as 5000 tonnes a day last...

Forestry Minister Shane Jones has defended the Government’s One Billion Trees policy in the face of mounting criticism from the rural sector, saying the rise of forestry shows that land use in New Zealand is “in transition”.Increased tree...

THE finalists have been announced for the Gisborne-Tairawhiti Surf Lifesaving Awards of Excellence for the 2017-18 season — with almost all the finalists from the three city clubs. Members of the Waikanae and the Ngati Porou clubs are in the...

Tourism Eastland, Heart of Gisborne and the Gisborne District Council thank the people pictured for volunteering their time to host passengers and crew last summer for the cruise season