They didn’t win the first challenge but Gisborne couple Amy Moore and Stu Watts produced arguably the best one-liners as the 2018 season of The Block NZ got under way last night. Amy and Stu are one of four teams whose mission is to completely...

New research shows many Kiwis are going without an internet connection despite the 21st century's reliance on it for everyday life. Reporter Jack Marshall spoke to local MP Kiri Allan, TaiTech trustee Polly Crawford and Tolaga Bay Inn trustee Lily...

TWO major community planting days have given a boost to the Waikanae Stream clean-up project. Over Friday and Sunday community volunteers planted 1300 native shrubs and grasses. On Friday, four classes from Awapuni School worked with Gisborne...

A brain injury patient has admitted criminal charges, following an incident with a rehabilitation worker. Dan Raniera Te Heuheu Robinson, pleaded guilty in Gisborne District Court to assaulting a female, common assault, wilful damage, and a breach of...

POLICE today are piecing together the events that culminated in the death of three Wairoa Mongrel Mob members and the "miraculous" survival of a fourth, after their vehicle plunged 150m down a bank and into the Mohaka River, on State Highway 2...

The horticulture sector has welcomed changes to temporary work visas that simplfiy the immigration system and recognise that overseas workers play a significant role in industries such as horticulture. Changes to the employer-assisted temporary work...

MetService is warning of “potentially significant weather” coming New Zealand's way as a low-pressure system could bring long periods of rain to eastern parts of the North Island from Sunday. While there's some uncertainty of where the...

A resounding 75 percent of poll respondents say they are not happy with the enforcement of dog control regulations. Of 249 responses, 187 (70 percent) said they were unhappy, 50 (20 percent) were happy and 12 people (5 percent) did not know. Many...

HAWKE’S Bay Regional Council has agreed to help fund next year’s Te Matatini Kapa Haka Festival, which is expected to draw hundreds and possibly thousands of performers and spectators from Gisborne. HBRC has approved a grant of $200,000 to Ngati...

Ki-o-rahi has been a front-runner in the revival of traditional Maori games, especially in Tairawhiti. The region has won and hosted numerous national ki-o-rahi tournaments, and now exponents of the game have given the thumbs up for a new app to...

As principal sponsor for Horouta Waka Hoe, the team at Self Storage Gisborne are excited to be supporting the current Waka Ama NZ and World Champions at the upcoming 2022 IVF World Waka Ama Sprint Championships, being held in London from August...

WRESTLING mania will take hold of the Showgrounds Event Centre on Saturday night with the return of “We Wrestle”.The spectacular American-style wrestling event has an all-Gisborne line-up and is in its eighth edition since humble beginnings in...

Navigating by traditional methods, skipper India Tabellini was one of 16 crew to make the voyage to New Zealand from Tahiti on Fa’afaite, to be part of the Pacific flotilla for Tuia 250. Speaking at the open day on Sunday, she said they hit some...

Gisborne district councillors are gearing up to “get our community on board” after voting to introduce Maori wards for the 2022 and 2025 elections. A crowded council chambers erupted in applause following a unanimous vote in favour of...

IT was expected the work would take less than a day and the playground would be open to the public again tomorrow

It's two years since Daphne Caruana Galizia, the best investigative journalist in Malta, was killed by a car bomb. She had been using the huge leaks of financial data in the “Panama Papers” to track down suspicious dealings by members of the...

There are 245 active cases of Covid-19 in the district, according to figures released by Health New Zealand-Tairawhiti this morning.“We've had between 22 and 56 cases per day over the last week and our daily average is up to 36,” said a Health...

A Gisborne man who won $1 million in Lotto was speechless when he claimed the prize yesterday. Mangapapa Four Square sold the winning ticket for Wednesday night’s Lotto draw. Store owner Jitesh Ravla said when a winner of that size was processed...

Re: Clarity on rail required, May 2 letter. Further engineering work and freight studies have been done following the release of BERL's Turanga ki Wairoa Rail Feasibility Report in December. This work has provided confidence in the figures noted in...

Several bus passengers were taken to Gisborne Hospital yesterday morning after the Gizzy Bus vehicle they were travelling on struck a parked vehicle in Ormond Road. The crash happened near the Dalrymple Road corner shortly before 10.30am as the bus...

Turihaua Angus will offer a line-up of 25 yearling bulls and nine two-year-olds in their sale on Wednesday next week. The Spring Sale will be held on-farm at the Turihaua sale complex with online bidding and a livestream available on sale day vi...

Re: Understanding goes a long way to achieving unity, March 12 letter. Pat, what an outstanding letter. Bigotry is alive and well in Tairawhiti. So, thankfully, is a balance of views and enlightenment from significant people. Historical documents have...

Gisborne has received millions of dollars from government economic development projects but a new report shows the region will need more than job-focused cash incentives to improve its poor wellbeing ranking. Of the nine wellbeing categories used by...

A full-noise, orchestral montage of Abba opens Musical Theatre Gisborne’s production of Mamma Mia! and sets the tone for the show’s non-stop gloriousness. Even before the song and dance routines began the opening night audience had warmed to the...

Gisborne should be in for a bumper tourism season, following the end of Tuia 250 Commemorations and the ongoing Te Tairawhiti Arts Festival events attracting visitors. With Gisborne in the national spotlight for the Tuia 250 events, Activate...

Some of Gisborne's most glorious gardens were on show at the weekend as the weather turned it on for the Gisborne Garden & Arts Festival. Around 1000 garden and art lovers visited 25 locations, including historic homesteads and vineyards, with some...

BEEF RECOGNITION: Three farms in this region have featured in the Silver Fern Farms regional ‘prime beef recognition' awards for last season. Mangatoitoi Station at Ngatapa, Landcorp Parikanapa and Mokairau Farms at Whangara have been presented...

Record numbers of students took up tertiary learning in Gisborne last year, new figures show. For the academic year 2018, Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT) recorded 10,330 students in total, 1000 more compared to 2017. Of these students 58 percent...

The commentary surrounding Eastland Group's CEO salary rather begs the question of who is responsible and what can be done about it. Look at the Auckland City Council (ACC), by way of comparison. The ACC has a budget of $31.8 billion over 10 years...

Re: Op shops need to price competitively, May 7 letter. Shelagh, do you realise how much it costs to feed animals these days? It is bad enough trying to feed two cats let alone the many animals that have been treated cruelly or left abandoned. A bag...