Veterans' Affairs held a forum at the Cossy club on Thursday to assist veterans and families seeking specialised one-on-one assistance with support staff. A big thank you to Meka Whaitiri and Bernadette McKenzie (VANZ) for facilitating this...

It was a poti pati (vote party) at Marina Park yesterday where whanau were encouraged to enjoy casting their votes in the local elections. Everyone was welcome to come along and cast their votes in the official ballot box, and community liaison staff...

Tairawhiti residents have been reminded by Gisborne District Council to burn only dry, suitable, firewood and keep chimneys clean and maintained to minimise air pollution. During winter air quality usually declines due to smoke from woodburners and...

PGG Wrightson Seeds held the first of their 2017 Seeds in Action field days at the end of January at their newest demonstration site opposite the Matawhero sale yards. Company spokeswoman Lucy Evans said they invest over $10 million a into research...

Someone had a lucky escape from this vehicle either late on Saturday night or in the early hours of Sunday on Wainui Road between Harris and Hirini streets. Police are still investigating but it appears the Ford Falcon's roof came out the better -...

In terms of expenditure, the council is now halfway through the $22 million DrainWise effort to reduce wastewater discharges into city rivers and on to people’s properties during heavy rain. However, an update to councillors for their meeting on...

Registrations are coming in fast for the Memory Walk next weekend and Alzheimers Gisborne are doing everything possible to make it bigger and better than before. Alzheimers Gisborne manager Janet Willson is looking forward to a good turnout from the...

The body of a woman found in a vacant house near Ruatoria last weekend has been identified. Police this morning said she was Kathleen Kawana, 46, from Porirua. The inquiry into how she died continues.“Her death is still being treated as...

I wish to send a bouquet to the caretakers of Taruheru Cemetery. They have done a wonderful job of maintaining the lawns and gardens. Even the older part of the cemetery is also very well looked after. Very much appreciated. Thank you. Alison Duncan

A FARM worker was injured this morning when the All-Terrain-Vehicle he was operating crashed on a hillside on a farm paddock on a property between Nuhaka and Morere. The emergency services, including the Trust Tairawhiti rescue helicopter, were...

In a second diving incident at the weekend, also in the Tatapouri area, two men were gathering kaimoana on Saturday afernoon when the boat they were using dragged its anchor and the motor would not start. One of the men was some distance from the...

A grandfather accused by his seven-year-old granddaughter of sexually assaulting her has denied the allegation before a jury in Gisborne District Court. His counsel told jurors to closely consider how it came about. The accused man, who has interim...

A man's out-of-line behaviour in his car and a minor theft caused at least two motorists to fear for their safety. Mathew Glyn Walton faced charges in Gisborne District Court of possessing a knife in a public place, threatening to kill, driving...

One striped marlin was tagged and released, and 12 yellow tuna were caught yesterday, on the first day of Gisborne's biggest game fish contest. Regan Hurring caught a 15.96kg yellow fin, and Paul Pardoe a yellow fin that weighed in at...

A Gisborne infrastructure company has been awarded funding for a New Zealand-first heavy electric vehicle trial. Energy and Resources Minister Megan Woods says Eastland Group has been awarded $177,000 from the Low Emission Vehicles Contestable Fund...

WINTER has finally arrived and with it a strengthened relationship between Turanga Health and Curtain Bank Gisborne. More families are getting help to stay warm. Established in 2009 to provide made-to-measure curtains for people on low incomes...

The council proposal for Gisborne’s coastal bay to be renamed Turanganui a Kiwa/Poverty Bay is a good one — officially reclaiming the original name for our place, while retaining our other historical and, in the case of Gisborne, widely-known...

What have the Romans ever done for us? I propose London changes back to its original name, which could have been Llyn Dain, Welsh for “pool of the Thames”, or Llan Dian, referring to the Temple of Diana which was supposed to have stood where St...

The National Party released an economic policy discussion document this week, with the attention-grabbing headlines that it would “set a bonfire on regulations” and commit to progressively raising the retirement age from 65 to 67, starting in...

Incumbent Gisborne district councillor Shannon Dowsing told Thursday’s candidates meeting at Holy Trinity that he was going to make an unpopular statement.“Council is actually doing very well,” he said. The council was “right on budget”...

The Spring Show will go down as one of the district's best and, as usual, it was a family affair again, just ask the Teutenbergs from Hinenui Genetics (pic 1) who took home the T.S White Memorial shield in the wool section. The stock competitions...

THE congregations of St Andrews, St Davids and Matawhero Presbyterian churches in Gisborne have welcomed a new minister into their ranks and for the three churches it ends lengthy periods without one. The Reverend Mary Petersen has been in Gisborne...

A correspondent this week said there were suggestions council-controlled Gisborne Holdings Ltd “adopt the Eastland Group model, with a commercial board of mostly out-of-town directors” — and asked how it would perform without the monopoly...

THE final Chorus design cabinet design has gone up and it takes a different direction to the previous four. In those four, Amie Coker created a stylised depiction of Turanganui a Kiwa-Poverty Bay, Julianne Poninghouse painted a Kaiti Beach scene...

Like the millennium and Gisborne’s opportunity as first city in the world to see the sun, the Tuia 250 commemoration of first formal meetings here between Maori and Europeans, in October this year, has focused minds on the legacy potential of...

Hospice Tairawhiti general manager Barbara Grout says there is absolutely no truth to the rumour that people visiting its Peel Street shop need to be tested for Covid.“We had a call from a visitor to the shop who said she had been contacted by...

Two caravans stolen from their freedom camping spots at Pouawa yesterday morning were removed with the wheel clamps still attached. One of the caravans was recovered in Glenroy Road, 7km north of Pouawa, with a missing wheel. Both caravans were...

THE Rangatahi and Pasifika Youth Courts, first developed in Gisborne under Judge Heemi Taumaunu, have gained international recognition for their innovative community-based approach to justice. In a ceremony at Auckland’s Orakei Marae yesterday...

The year drawing to a close is not one that will be remembered fondly by millions, marked as it was by acts of extreme violence and cruelty. This year it was the turn of the UK, usually one of the most stable countries on the planet, to experience...

A metservice heavy raining warning over the weekend did not amount to much. The warning was in place until midday today, an expected further 30 to 50mm of rain to accumulate on top of what had already fallen, especially about the ranges. Peak...