Gisborne's median house price hit a record high of $330,000 in March, up 17.9 percent from $280,000 12 months ago, the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ) reports. Gisborne-based REINZ regional director Philip Searle said despite the record...
A “HIGH-RISK” child sex offender has appeared in Gisborne District Court for further breaches of the terms of a 10-year extended supervision order (EOS) imposed when he was released from prison in 2013. James Stevens Kotuhi, 35, was the subject...
It was good of The Gisborne Herald to have a story on the GDC water monitoring information being available. It was less good to have a photo of Santa on the Rere Rockslide, where the E. coli testing on December 10 showed the river polluted at a level...
Work starts next week on the construction of a new slow vehicle bay on State Highway 2 — work which will involve the excavation of 39,000m3 of steep hillside. The site is 2km south of Raupunga, on the southbound ascent after the Mohaka Bridge...
In 2000 David Wilson QC (now District Court Judge Wilson QC) and I were the lawyers who represented the combined churches of Hamilton (the Catholic Church, Church of the Latter Day Saints, Anglican Diocese and the Islamic Centre) in opposing the...
A drink-driver attracted police attention when she failed to negotiate a simple turn at the intersection of Wipere and Stout Streets and drove on to the traffic island. Cheryl Renata, 49, administrator, pleaded guilty in Gisborne District Court to...
SMOKE alarms sounded an early warning early this morning when a fire started by unattended cooking drove seven people in a flat in Awapuni Road out of their beds and outside to safety. Fire and Emergency NZ sent appliances to Housing New Zealand...
Greetings, we have a full council meeting this Thursday with several meaty papers. There is a paper recommending named commissioners to hear consents to develop Wharves 6 and 7 and the slipway for Eastland Port. The council has previously determined...
Re: Enough trash-talk . . . October 25. Wrong, wrong, wrong Bob. You should get your information from factual programmes like the one I saw on Discovery TV. I repeat that in Sweden they have an enormous furnace, around 150 metres high, that burns...
National Party East Coast electorate spokeswoman Tania Tapsell says yesterday's Budget “lacks ambition”, and should have focused on getting back to a surplus.“It's unbelievable that the debt of our country will now increase to $184 billion...
Senior high school students from throughout the region were given a massive dose of inspiration at the Turangatahi conference hosted by EIT and Te Puni Kokiri. They had the chance to meet some of the brightest young achievers who started their lives...
US authorities will be alerted to a decision by the New Zealand Health Practitioner’s Disciplinary Tribunal, in which former Gisborne Hospital orthopaedic surgeon Stephen Augustine is labelled a “danger to the public”.Augustine, a US national...
Never mind the bureaucratic claptrap from the Mayor of strategic alignment etc. The facts are that GHL ran down the vehicle testing station and flogged it off, they have run down Tauwhareparae Farms and now want to flog them off. If that's not...
A triathlete training towards world-qualifying times suffered significant setbacks after he was hit by a young motorist, Gisborne District Court heard. Tenaya Hera-Maree Brown, 20, university student, pleaded guilty to careless driving causing injury...
Re: ‘Murder’ never acceptable, July 5 letter. I read Ken Orr’s comment of July 19 on exactly the same day as I read the article “Missing the bus” in La Croix International. Written by theologian Fr Eric Hodgens, who serves as a senior priest...
We have a full council meeting on Thursday with substantial reports on a number of important topics, and a Civil Defence and Emergency Management meeting on Wednesday. The community should be very interested in the fact the tender for the first...
Rush hour traffic delays on Main Road, Makaraka, are being managed with a new evening works programme. Gisborne District Council contractors started maintenance work on the road earlier this week. GDC Journeys infrastructure manager Dave Hadfield...
THE pilot of the Robinson 44 helicopter that crashed at Mahia on Wednesday morning may be back in Gisborne some time today. The 43-year-old man suffered neck and back injuries in the crash that happened while he was carrying out spray work on a farm...
Saturday, July 29100 Days Project — Solo Exhibition, 10am–4pm, Tairawhiti Museum, through to 6 August. 50 artworks + 50 poems by Katarina & Mary Reedy. Free for locals, visitors $5. Art Collective Display, 10am–4pm, Tairawhiti Museum, through...
WITH Plastic-Free July kicking off in less than a week, Tina Ngata, who runs the blog “The Non-Plastic Maori”, says a few words about how she went nearly plastic-free, and some easy steps to reduce using “unnecessary” plastic. Two and a half...
Queensland-based Midway surf lifeguard Cory Taylor crossed the finish line to win round 5 of the prestigious Ocean6 Nutri-Grain ironman competition at Surfers Paradise on Saturday. Taylor, 25, joined an elite group of Kiwi surf lifesavers, including...
A report of a possible body floating in the water off the eastern end of Makorori Beach yesterday turned out to be craypot buoys. Police called out the district's water rescue services after the reported sighting at around 1.30pm. The Character...
POLICE have warned the public to be aware of a telephone scam that has targeted people in this district, usually the elderly. They encourage family members to talk to their elderly relatives and make sure they do not fall into this trap.“In this...
THE new see-through steel balustrades on the downstream side of the Gladstone Road bridge were bolted in place today. The bridge was reduced to one-lane traffic again to allow contractors space to do it. The lane closure, originally scheduled for last...
Re: Welcome excluded us, August 31 letter. A powhiri is the traditional way to welcome guests. It was an honour for Jacinda Ardern to have had that privilege and Para would have been very proud of all the students and teachers from Gisborne...
MOST people who smoke or have recently quit smoking support New Zealand's goal of becoming a smoke-free nation by 2025, researchers at the University of Otago, Wellington have found. They also support many of the specific measures that smoke-free...
THE annual grape harvest has hit full swing from this week and growers believe they have a promising vintage ahead. Their expectation remains “confidently high”.A small amount of harvesting was done last week as test runs for local wineries, and...
Kiwis can be confident we have the systems in place to ensure New Zealand is contributing to the safe and secure use of space. Growing up in Gisborne, where as a boy I used to deliver this very newspaper, I couldn’t have imagined that in the...
A WOMAN and a teenage girl were taken to Gisborne Hospital with injuries yesterday after the car they were in crashed on the Wharekopae Road near Ngatapa School. Two other younger children in the vehicle were unhurt. Emergency services responded to...
Mr Peters, I voted for you and your party because of your unequivocal, bottom-line promise to hold a referendum on the retention of the Maori seats. I have supported you for the past 15 years and regularly sent you letters of this support. You have...
While much of the council discussion last week on a report by Maven Consulting centred on whether a full analysis of forestry activity in this district might find its costs outweighed the benefits, the point of this recommendation was to assess...
Re: Let's do this, February 14 story. Things just don't stack up to me as I read all these reports about reinstating the railway. Is BERL telling the KiwiRail chief executive that work needs to start on the Gisborne to Wairoa rail link by April 2020...
It's a big week for lambing around the region as the ewes mated around April 9 have their youngsters arrive in the world. AgFirst consultant Peter Andrew said this week and next is when the largest number of ewes deliver their lambs.“This high...
THIS week’s Gisborne Herald web poll shows most people here are keen to vote in the election, with a slight majority intending to do it on the day itself. When asked if they would be voting in the General Election, and if so when, 44 percent of...