Low Covid vaccination rates in Tairawhiti are not being helped by misinformation, experts behind one of New Zealand's Covid-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests say. Gisborne biotech company dnature supplies Covid-19 PCR test kits to hospitals...
I attended the performance of Mozart's Requiem by the Gisborne and Hastings Choral Society yesterday afternoon. Mozart wrote this in 1791 when he was 35 years old and died before he finished it. It was finished by one of his pupils. I wonder if he...
FOCUS on the Land would like to wish rural people everywhere throughout the region the very best for 2018. May you all have a prosperous and safe year. Thanks to the many who have contributed to rural pages in the past year and we hope for the same...
I have had enough of the trucks on the road, it is unsafe. I'm also worried about the washouts of the rail line — I want to push on and get them fixed. Please, we must get the railway back as soon as possible. I used to always see the train coming...
The Youth Hostel Association of NZ's decision to close all their hostels nationwide does not affect the privately-owned Gisborne hostel but the owners say they face considerable challenges to “find a way forward”.YHA will close its hostels in...
The rain warning for the top of the district has been upgraded to Orange Status, and MetService says peak rainfall could be intense. The expected downpour is the result of the North Island being caught between a deep low off the west of the South...
EAST Coast Farming Expo manager Sue Wilson was proud to announce the 2020 Bayleys Muster and thrilled to have Bayleys on board for a highlight of the two-day event. The muster has always proved popular, and this year the panel discussion centres on...
A man in custody went on the run from police yesterday as he was being moved from one area of the Gisborne police station to another. He fled the station during the morning and police tracked him into the afternoon before he was located and taken...
Colourful characters from the pages of favourite children’s stories came to life during the New Zealand Post Book Week parade at Te Wharau School
Fifteen new entrants joined Kaiti School for their first day at school yesterday
The story of missing sheepdog Bella has a happy ending as she and her owners were reunited yesterday. The Gisborne Herald shared the plight of Bella, an 11-month-old beardie huntaway cross, who somehow got out of her box on a stock truck travelling...
Dear Clive Bibby,The council has arranged for extra water storage with large amounts of funding from the Government. It's called a swimming pool . . . recreation beats productivity. You need to recognise the council's priority. It's called monument...
The new regime to respond to reports of wandering stock on the region's state highways is now in force and the NZTA hopes local motorists take note of the new reporting number. The NZ Transport Agency has taken over stock control on State Highways 2...
A gisborne production company has received $350,000 in funding for a docu-drama television series on the history of Pasifika rainbow people living in New Zealand. Tairāwhiti TV received NZ On Air funding to produce the series, called Manalagi. The...
This pen (above) of 96 Waitangi Terrace Station ewes sold for $211 at Friday's Matawhero sale. These ewes were mixed aged, with good mouths and condition, had been scanned-in-lamb at 168.75 percent and mated to a Romney ram on April 1. A second cut...
Reports of a “sale by tender” of one of our most iconic livestock farming properties — Mangaheia Stn, inland from Tolaga Bay — is welcome news for most of us who have been nervously watching the process since it was listed for sale. Foremost...
POLICE are on the lookout for a distinctive yellow Toyota Hilux that was stolen last night and the owner said the theft has disappointed him because he thinks it’s a bit of a Gisborne icon. Boyd McGregor previously operated the Surfit fishing...
In the aftermath of the Christchurch terror attack, New Zealanders are asking ourselves many difficult questions. Why has this happened in Aotearoa? How can we help the victims? How we can we heal as a nation? Are we safe?New Zealanders have come...
We are blessed our child’s grandparents have taken their grandchildren on so many outings these school holidays. Unfortunately, yesterday’s outing to our city’s amazing boardwalk was tainted. Grandparents were on foot with grandfather leading...
The World Trade Organisation agreement eliminating export subsidies for agricultural exports reached in Nairobi at the weekend is a quiet success story that may become even more important as threats to the controversial TPPA deal increase. The...
Two Gisborne businesses have an extra reason to be grateful this Christmas after winning a national advertising campaign with professional rugby players starring as actors. Dive Tatapouri and London Street Fish Shop were surprised when they each got...
THIS district’s “own land wars” — starting from the siege of Waerenga-a-Hika — should be commemorated each year, says Ikaroa-Rawhiti MP and Cabinet minister Meka Whaitiri. The Customs Minister says she is less interested in Raa Maumahar...
A pilot digital health programme to help vulnerable children that is proving successful in Northland has been launched here. The mobile healthcare system iMoko is an application used on iPads and is the brainchild of doctor Lance O’Sullivan —...
THE New Zealand Forest Service has opened up its 2022 ‘Nga Karahipi Uru Rakau' forestry scholarships applications and this year there will be nine successful applicants.“It is an exciting time to be studying and working in the forestry and wood...
A ROTORUA man and two Gisborne people were arrested yesterday after police chased a car allegedly stolen from Lytton West and eventually stopped by road spikes near Tolaga Bay. Police were called about the incident at 9.45am and the Nissan Micr...
And so the stalls go up for the 2020 election — vote Labour for a fairer tax system, vote National to protect the Kiwi way of life. While it is understandable that National is arguing against a comprehensive capital gains tax in the strongest...
A re-think on allowing industrial operations in Awapuni Road could be on the cards after Mayor Meng Foon agreed to look into concerns raised by nearby residents. Given the nearby industrial subdivision, residents have complained that increasing...
Support for the petition opposing the potential sale of the Huiarua and Matanui stations to overseas forestry interests climbed past the 2500 mark yesterday, and Gisborne-Wairoa Federated Farmers has had more than 35,000 views on it on their...
A government minister aiming to visit every rural council in New Zealand by the end of September has made it to Gisborne — stop number 15 of 55. Associate Minister for Local Government Kieran McAnulty visited Gisborne District Council on Thursday...
Labour's proposed new tax rates are the most dramatic development of the election campaign so far and cut straight to the issue of how the country can recover from the economic recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Finance Minister Grant...
AN increasing trend of sole parents in Gisborne getting off benefits and back into work or education is expected to further improve, after the Government announced it would make more help available for single parents. There have been successive...
ONLY days after a public plea was made to stop using second-hand charity stores as dumping grounds, a broken bed with stains and dirty car tyres were dumped outside Gisborne’s Habitat for Humanity ReStore at the weekend. The call to the public by...
Firefighters were called out twice last night to two quite different emergencies, one that involved overcooked food and the other to help someone trapped in a bathroom. Fire and Emergency NZ received the first call at 6pm to a house in Daphne Street...