A shed on a property at Ormond was destroyed in a fire on Saturday night and an electrical fault involving multi-boards has been blamed as the probable cause of the blaze. Fire and Emergency NZ sent an appliance and a tanker from Gisborne, and called...
Queen’s Birthday Weekend will be remembered for a long time by a family in a farm house in Mangatokerau Road, north of Tolaga Bay, who were airlifted from their roof early yesterday after a four-hour ordeal. They woke in the dark on Monday to...
The family of a woman killed in a crash on Tatapouri hill last year have made a heartfelt plea to Gisborne district councillors to install safety barriers and improve the region’s transport network to prevent future deaths. Erica Jones died in...
Through the years, many countries have allowed horrific discriminatory treatment of minority groups. It is common nowadays for state leaders to apologise for shocking historic wrongdoings. In most cases, much strife could have been avoided if...
Toitu Tairāwhiti iwi chairs are delighted to announce the establishment of iwi Maori partnership board Tairawhiti Toitu Te Ora. The seven-member board will play a critical role in navigating the challenges and opportunities in the sweeping health...
Re: Referendum website conceals killing, December 12 column. I'm confident I speak for many in welcoming Ken Orr back into the 'End of Life Choice' Act debate. He seems surprised that so many Labour MPs voted for the Act, but why? Recent and repeated...
The 1000-Year Walk Bridge planned to connect the Puhi Kai Iti/Cook Landing Site to Titirangi maunga over Rakaiatane Road looks set for the too-hard basket, with no additional funds forthcoming for this project where estimated costs have doubled to...
CONTRACTORS shifting the driftwood debris from the main city beach front have shifted more than 15,000 cubic metres so far and the council is pleased with progress. The extent of debris on the beach and the level of annual clean-up was transformed in...
Men need to talk more about their mental health — and if they did, lives would be saved says former All Black Andy Jefferd. Mr Jefferd is one of 26 Gisborne men, all from different backgrounds, brought together for a Movember charity fundraiser...
There was another crash that involved a log truck this morning when a loaded truck and truck unit tipped over on State Highway 35 at Whangara, spilled logs across the road and into nearby paddocks. Emergency services were called out at about 7.10am...
ONE of four men allegedly involved in burgling avocado orchards around the district last year has pleaded guilty. But a lawyer for one of his co-accused says he will raise the question of whether the men should have been charged with burglary or with...
Re: Priorities seem mixed up, November 30 letter. The clip-on bridge project is fully funded by the NZ Transport Agency as part of its programme for improving the cycle link from Kaiti to the CBD. The ultimate aim for widening the existing layout is...
A 70-year-old story of the Ngai Tamanuhiri people and their ancestral Horouta waka has been brought to digital life as an educational resource for children and the community. An electronic-book and short film documentary depicts the story, He Putang...
The Gisborne Olympic Pool Complex has done it again with an outstanding summer of community support through its valuable services. The many smiles of happy people tell the story. Recently Autism New Zealand had a community afternoon at the pool that...
Gisborne agri-business Coxco will take on more than 400 local employees as their busy season approaches, with training, mentoring and ongoing employment as part of the package. The company, founded by former Gisborne farmer Mark Cox in 1996, has...
Jacinda Ardern and her Government have been very proactive with Covid-19 but the numbers are rising and we have cases in the provinces now. To prevent this scourge of misery through GodZone, all Kiwis travelling home should be made to quarantine...
EXPERIENCING the Alert Level 4 nationwide lockdown has been “weird” but the community is coming to terms with the seriousness of Covid-19, says East Coast MP Anne Tolley. The National Party MP believes the first confirmed Gisborne case of the...
East Coast MP Kiri Allan is backing the cheeky kea for the high-profile Bird of the Year title. Online voting for the Forest and Bird of the Year/Te Manu Rongonui o Te Tau 2021 started on Monday. The Labour MP declared her support for the highly...
Australia’s brief dalliance with a return to knights and dames last year was condemned along with Tony Abbott’s premiership by what he now admits was the “injudicious” awarding of a knighthood to Prince Phillip. Abbott, a keen monarchist, had...
Three Waters feedback request. I want my rate payer dollars paid towards the Three Waters to be spent efficiently. I want the engineers and administrators of Tairawhiti's Three Waters to be honest and transparent in all their dealings with the...
In raising the issue of the Tino Rangitiratanga flag outside council, I view that with the same distaste many have for the so-called Rebel Flag of the former Confederation of Southern States of America. The flag has unfortunate connotations, in...
The creation of a virtual 3D tour with narrative voice-over was part of a Google Earth workshop during Techweek in Gisborne. Guided by Te Runanga o Turanganui a Kiwa projects co-ordinator Wiremu Ruru, participants learned how to use the free online...
Name suppression has lapsed for a log truck driver involved in a collision in which Tolaga Bay man Hone (Jondi) Maitai died last month. Anthony Wakaki Thomas, 49, was absent when his case was called yesterday in Gisborne District Court but was...
The Eastland Helicopter Rescue Trust has been forced to cancel its annual charity auction due to uncertainties around Covid-19 restrictions. The auction has been one of the chopper trust's major fundraisers each year since the first one, 14 years...
This week staff settled into the new Inner Harbour offices, at 2 Crawford Road, which used to house Soho bar downstairs, and Plunket upstairs. Inside has been turned into an office environment for Eastland Port employees. During Alert Level 2...
Environmentally-friendly Gisborne farmers came out in droves this week to ensure proper disposal of chemicals and soft plastics like silage and bale wrap. Agrecovery have been holding rural recycling and recovery events around New Zealand, with this...
Surfers were out in force yesterday at Wainui to take advantage of excellent conditions. The MetService Surf report described conditions at Wainui as 'a good 9', with surfers revelling in 1.8-metre waves
Trains are moving again on the Wairoa-Napier line today for the first time in six years. KiwiRail estimates that using the line to move forestry logs could take more than 5500 trucks a year off the road, and cut carbon emissions by 1292...
NURSES offered free blood pressure testing and blood sugar screening outside Anne Tolley’s electorate office yesterday as a form of poltical protest.“We are taking this action to show we are serious about getting a better deal for Ngati Porou...
Autumn, season of falling leaves, harvest . . . and the pong of ripe ginkgo berries splattered on city pavements. This is not only a health and safety concern that pedestrians might slip and fall, but an even greater concern that the public are...
Investigations into the death of a crewman after an accident on a log ship tied up at Eastland Port continue today. The Transport Accident Investigation Commission (TAIC) has started an inquiry, alongside one by Maritime New Zealand, into the death...
A Tiniroto man alleged to have seriously assaulted a fellow farmer has been granted bail. David Bruce Morrison, 43, appeared in Gisborne District Court via AV-link from Hawke’s Bay Regional Prison, where he was remanded after previously being...