FIREFIGHTERS were called to the city beachfront early afternoon yesterday after reports of a driftwood log on fire on the beach opposite the Beacon Reserve. The call came in at about 1pm and one appliance responded. The crew used a high pressure hose...

Bilingual signage, reo classes, karakia to start formal hui and weekly waiata practice. This is how the waka rolls at Te Kaunihera o Te Tairāwhiti and not just during Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori (Māori Language Week).While Aotearoa this week...

It is a mark of the unpredictability of United States President Donald Trump that his three-day UK visit, where he launched himself into British politics — something his predecessors carefully avoided — has been labelled a success. He was not...

A jury trial due to start in the district court yesterday was cancelled after the complainant got off a plane en route to Gisborne and checked herself into a mental health unit in Wellington. Wairoa man Sean Alan O’Connor, 60, faced allegations by...

Re Lara Meyer's attempt to further blur the truth (Invitation, Nov 3).I never said or intimated that clean water was a bad idea, or that I was against the principle of clean water. Even I'm not that bloody stupid. I have no idea what the...

A visit from former US President Barack Obama dominated the news cycle in the past week but there are doubts the big sums Air New Zealand, Westpac and MasterCard paid to bring him here got them the value they might have hoped for. With friend and...

Uawanui Restoration Project will receive $1.3 million over three years that will unlock more employment opportunities and pump up the local economies, Forestry Minister Shane Jones says. This will create 12 jobs a year for three years, planting...

MORE positive news has been confirmed for the Motu Trails Charitable Trust, with new funding support from both the Department of Conservation and long-time supporter the Lion Foundation. Through the Department of Conservation’s Community...

Top marks Hauora Tairawhiti — I have recently been visiting the Outpatients Clinic at Gisborne Hospital and would like to compliment the friendly, helpful staff for the wonderful service I have received every time I have been there. Grounds and...

Re: New dawn won’t harm anyone, March 14 column. This is the most disgusting opinion piece some of us have ever read in The Gisborne Herald. The former, I repeat former, CEO of the public servant GDC defames senior citizens like our hero Mike...

WHILE most students have a job or two to help fund their way through university, wrestling alligators might be a step too far. Yet for Florida native Doug Rosen, it was the ideal summer job. That and milking rattlesnakes. Mr Rosen was in Gisborne...

THE accident happened on Back Ormond Road near the Hansen Road corner at about 6pm on Saturday.“The pole will have to be replaced,” a senior firefighter said. “We diverted traffic around the accident scene until it was cleared.”

Tairāwhiti has 13 new cases as the Covid-19 virus continues to spread but there are no plans to extend testing in the district.“There are now positive cases outside of our established clusters,” a Hauora Tairāwhiti spokesman said. “The...

PRICES were firm on the better quality lines as buyers from other districts bid strongly at Tuesday’s Matawhero Cattle Fair. Over 1550 cattle were sent for sale, including annual drafts of steers and bulls from Waitangi Terrace Station at...

An opinion poll voted on by 386 online readers of The Gisborne Herald showed 80 percent want Tairawhiti to be a pokie-free community. Community organisation Ka Pai Kaiti has asked Gisborne District Council to make the district free of the gambling...

I’d like to write about the dozy drivers we have in Dizzy Gisborne, especially at our local McDonald’s drive-in. There are two bold yellow lines indicating to drivers to stop there until the order speaker is vacated by the vehicle in front, but...

The One Billion Trees programme is a good idea, however a fodder tree like willow or poplar would do the same job as pine but better. The areas we have already planted in pine are as much as our roads can handle and population can staff. Silviculture...

On the subject of buses, why the blue billy goat isn’t there a bus service out to Wainui/Okitu? I would take the bus from time to time for sure, and I bet others would too. Adam Simperingham

Learning about sustainable practices and helping to save the world have been a focus for a Gisborne “upcycle” fashion designer. Katie Clinnick has a passion for upcycled clothing — she scours the second-hand shops for clothing and linen to...

There was plenty to celebrate for Gisborne and Wairoa dog triallists last week, rounded off by several final placings and yet another South Island title win for Waimata's Merv Utting. Utting won the South Island Short Head and Yard Championship with...

Eastland Port and the Gisborne-Tatapouri Sports Fishing Club have worked together to find a solution to boat trailer parking at the wharf for the 2020 Bay Bonanza fishing competition this weekend. Gisborne's inner harbour has been preparing for an...

PRIME Minister Jacinda Ardern’s Gisborne-born and bred partner Clarke Gayford has made the news again. Along with his partner, he is among the 10 shortlisted finalists in Massey University’s annual Quote of the Year competition. Speaking on his...

The launch of the Motu-vation Cafe is good news and a sign that one of the district’s most historic townships may be on the rise after a long time in the doldrums. Kaz Winterton and her husband Fred have reopened the former Motu general store and...

GISBORNE has 105 fewer people relying on benefits, new government figures show. As of December 2016 there were 5501 people claiming a main benefit from the Ministry of Social Development —105 less than the same time the previous year and mostly due...

Farmers stores across New Zealand are once again raising funds for local hospice services in the lead-up to Christmas. Staff and customers alike are supporting the campaign aimed at keeping hospice care free of charge in every community across the...

With just hours left to vote in the 2019 local body elections, more than 20,000 people here had still not voted. Voting closed at midday today but as of yesterday just 12,350 people (37.99 percent of registered voters) had done so. That percentage was...

Contractors have completed the major part of the second beach clean up on the city beach front from The Cut to past Midway. What was driftwood debris-strewn sand just over a week ago has now been transformed back into a pristine playground. The...

Re: Homeless dad’s plight, December 5 story. I have had Lance as a guest at our motel on more than one occasion. The most recent, due to availability, Lance spent the night with his son in an upstairs studio, changing to a one-bedroom suite the...

About 200 homes lost power for about two hours yesterday.“There was a fault in the area (Hauroa Road) which took the power out to the area of Grant Road at 1.44,” an Eastland Netowrk spokeswoman. “It was put back on at 1.55pm, but that created...

Easter holiday travellers have been reminded to build in time this long weekend to get there and back safely and enjoyably. Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency is expecting a lot more traffic on the roads over the Easter break.“As the country was in...