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...

A previously unreleased song by guitar-driven blues rock act The Broken Stone has been uploaded to music-streaming platform Spotify in support of mental health week. Written by The Broken Stone's lead singer/guitarist, Adrian Athy, when he was going...

Let us now praise sensible men! I refer to recent letter-writers who insist the rail-track is fixed before we get that literal log-jam from the forestry industry. My thanks to them. In the Tuesday 25th Gisborne Herald, KiwiRail’s original cost...

SELF-taught musician and community advocate Kiri Gilbert of Wairoa is one of the Tairawhiti Men of the Year. The Tairawhiti Rural Education Activities Programme (REAP) put forth his nomination, describing him as “a very talented, caring and adored...

The Gisborne region has escaped the worst of the last few days’ wintry blast, even though temperature readings have been chilly. The current coolness is caused by Antarctica’s “refrigerator door” opening and a flow of fronts and cold air...

Long-running plans to build a “1000-year walk bridge” over Rakaiatane Road are back on track, after new funding was secured. The contract for the 1000-year walk bridge design and build was signed this week after Gisborne District Council was...

Simulation day a big success

What's clear after the helicopter crash that killed basketball superstar Kobe Bryant and eight other people is that his impact was massive. That this rare sporting talent meant so much to so many people was quickly evident outside and inside the...

It was a bleak day yesterday at the weekly Matawhero sheep sale where 1280 sheep were confronted by a reduced number of buyers. Prices fell accordingly, along with some lots being passed in. There were 34 prime-lambs offered and the top price of $167...

Gisborne country pub the Jolly Stockman is shutting shop for good on Monday. The “Jolly” has been a cafe bar and restaurant, country hotel, and community hub over its 70 years. The hotel on the corner of State Highway 2 and Saleyards Road at...

Work is under way to establish self-isolation and quarantine (SIQ) facilities along the East Coast. A Hauora Tairāwhiti spokesperson confirmed the district health board had six campervans readily available as SIQs, which could travel anywhere in the...

There are no council meetings this week, however next week Local Government New Zealand is having its AGM which has prompted me to touch on something we discussed at the last council meeting. That is the remit process. Remits are a way for councils to...

One striking factor in preliminary Gisborne District Council election results for the city ward is that voters were so clear in their choice of the nine councillors they wanted around the governance table. The gap between ninth-placed candidate Terry...

The sight of handcuffed “501 deportees” being harassed by an Australian reporter while they were taken to a plane was the most depressing of last week and raises concerns about New Zealand's relationship with Australia. Australian Home Affairs...

Saturday, June 18The Gisborne Motorcycle Sports Club, beach races round 2, Makorori beach. Sign in 8–8.45am, racing at 9am, new riders welcome. Free plants and flowers, from 11am, GDC office grounds, Fitzherbert Street. Also a chance to view the...

Hospice Tairawhiti nurse Jayda Taiepa says it is a great privilege to work in palliative care. That may be a difficult concept for many to comprehend, but she describes her work as “a special role” where she helps individuals and their...

Gamblers in Gisborne wanting help have lost a lifeline. The Te Ara Tika Trust has terminated its problem-gambling contract with the Ministry of Health and the trust has been wound up, says trust chairwoman Lois McCarthy-Robinson. She said the service...

Just for the record Clive I have two university degrees and in another life was co-director along with Ron Monten and Doug Harris of “Creative Source”, a successful Newmarket advertising agency. Doug is now running Harris Advertising in Honolulu...

GLOBAL epidemiology consulting company Ausvet and New Zealand’s Working Formula (WF) have been appointed by the M. bovis programme to undertake research to help accelerate the eradication of the cattle disease from New Zealand farms. The Mycoplasm...

FIREFIGHTERS were called to a vehicle crash on State Highway 35 at Pouawa yesterday and an hour later attended a fire at a house in Kaiti. The first came at 3pm when a 4x4 vehicle went off SH35 at Pouawa and rolled.“When police, firefighters and St...

Two women remanded in custody before Christmas on jointly-laid charges of burglary and six counts of dishonestly using a document (a bank card) each sought bail. The application for one of the defendants, Wairoa woman Dawina Louise Ropitini, 32, was...

A year on from reopening air links between Gisborne and Napier, airline Air Napier is looking to buy a new, bigger aircraft to expand the service and maybe also “fill the gaps” left by the exit of Jetstar from the regions. The route was opened in...

Farmers and other rural residents want major questions answered in the wake of the severe forestry debris damage caused in the torrential rain in the Tolaga Bay and Whangara district last weekend. Tolaga Bay farmer Bruce Jefferd has farmed three...

THE tangata kaitiaki (guardians) of a small area on the eastern side of Mahia peninsula have sought to introduce bylaws around their existing Mataitai reserve at Horokaka to protect a range of seafood in the area. The zone runs from Mahia to Auro...

The Lotto ticket worth $500,000 bought in Gisborne has still not been claimed. Last Wednesday a Lotto player won $500,000 — a half share of the $1 million first division prize. The winning ticket was sold at Pak’nSave Gisborne. Anyone who bought...

Here are some observations on last week’s developments in the American political scene. First, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi wrote to President Trump disinviting him from giving the State of the Union address, citing concerns over security...

The fact US President Donald Trump is executing his campaign promises in a flurry of executive orders does not mean they should be accepted as the new American reality. So it is good to see the worldwide condemnation of his travel ban targeting...