DAYLIGHT Saving is just around the corner, and Fire and Emergency NZ and the Bunnings store in Gisborne will run DIY workshops on smoke alarms during the weekend of the changeover. The initiative will provide information and advice on how to select...
Neighbours, friends and strangers banding together to quickly get sandbags in place to protect homes from rising floodwater at Sponge Bay, along with the surf life saving emergency squad evacuating some residents in IRBs, made for dramatic and...
LONG-serving All Blacks manager Darren Shand is coming to Gisborne. Shand, who has been manager of the national side since 2004, will be “in conversation with Steve Smith”, the manager of the Poverty Bay Heartland Championship squad. The event is...
Cedenco Foods NZ have started their annual tomato harvest and expect to get into swing of it from now on.“We started for three days last week, stopped, started again yesterday, and we expect continuous processing from now on,” said general...
A GISBORNE family cannot wait to be one of the first worldwide to watch the new Star Wars movie. The Solomon family of four will dress up as famous characters for the premiere of Star Wars the Force Awakens in Gisborne tomorrow night. The plot is...
POLICE have appealed for sightings of a Tauranga woman and her vehicle that was found abandoned on State Highway 2 in the Waioeka Gorge on Wednesday afternoon. Rebekah Storey, 29, was reported missing that day. Police and her family have serious...
GISBORNE road users will get a taste of te reo Maori with new road safety billboards up to celebrate Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori, Maori Language Week. The signs are a reminder to stay safe on the roads and are a collaborative initiative between Tairawhiti...
Junior doctors want ‘‘a fair deal” and are disappointed to be striking again next week after mediation with health boards failed, says a Gisborne doctors’ representative. The nation’s junior doctors or members of New Zealand Resident...
The Gisborne-Tairāwhiti Surf Life Saving Awards of Excellence will be presented tonight, recognising the top rescues and sporting achievements of Gisborne and East Coast surf lifeguards in the past year. The awards acknowledge lifeguards across Uaw...
Beaches and water were the main themes among more than 300 pictures sent in for the summer photo competition The Gisborne Herald ran on our Facebook page. There were so many amazing pictures it was difficult to choose a winner but we had to, so...
MORE than 7500 missions were flown by rescue helicopters around New Zealand last year including 145 in the Gisborne-East Coast region. As part of this month’s nationwide Westpac Chopper Appeal, the Eastland Helicopter Rescue Trust is asking people...
Young musicians put on a show for their aspiring juniors at Girls' High this week as they prepped for the upcoming Smokefreerockquest. The concert was a warm-up for the regional heats, which are scheduled to take place at War Memorial Theatre...
Three months ago The Gisborne Herald ran a story about the historic Takitimu launch which graces our port. It was about how more money was needed to secure the boat’s future in Gisborne. Thousands of hours have been spent by devoted people making...
A Te Tai Pari Wananga (meeting) this week will talk about opportunities to grow the East Coast blue economy in Gisborne. Hikurangi Enterprises is collaborating with East Coast hapu, the Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge and Cawthron...
The last remaining forest company responsible for part of a mammoth raft of wood that ravaged Tolaga Bay during storms four years ago has been sentenced. Ernslaw One Limited, which manages Uawa Forest for the owner company Timbergrow Ltd, was...
COMMUNITY service workers could play a role in tackling Gisborne’s weed problem, a district councillor has said.“I have spoken to people at community services, and heard they often struggle to find tasks for [community service workers] to do,”...
Rising tensions in the Middle East might seem half a world away but the New Zealand Government will be keeping a close watch on them as it considers the situation of troops sent to Iraq last year. The deployment of 143 New Zealand troops in...
Some of Tairāwhiti's general practices and pharmacies are now giving Covid-19 vaccinations. Hauora Tairāwhiti vaccination programme manager Lisette Hayes said City Medical and Bramwells Pharmacy are providing vaccinations.“Three Rivers is due to...
FIREFIGHTERS were called to a house in Karamu Street in Elgin last night after a neighbour heard smoke alarms going off inside the house and raised the alarm. The call came in at about 9pm.“The house had smoke in it that had been generated by the...
The Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) trial on the Poverty Bay Flats was discussed in a recent Stuff article that described MAR as “the new buzz phrase in the search for answers to New Zealand’s twin problems of increasingly scarce water and...
In answer to a correspondent's question about proceeds from a sale of Eastland Network, your editor agrees that the Trust Tairawhiti model of building up capital and investing some of that over time in identified regional needs is better than...
A LOT of hard work and a few sleepless nights went into the dazzling flower displays at the Poverty Bay Races on Sunday. Gisborne florist Michelle Elliott said it was a lot of work but worth the effort now the event is over, and she is getting lots...
“A MIGHTY Totara has fallen”, this was one of many comments online as the news of Doctor Ngapo Wehi’s, QSM, passing spread this week. Mr Wehi, or Bub as he is known, was a kapa haka legend, credited with bringing kapa haka into the mainstream...
The family of a prisoner of war who was a part of the 28 Maori Battalion wants to reunite a book of prayer with its rightful owners. Wairoa woman Sue Thompson, the daughter of Ben Thompson, a prisoner of war and member of 28 Maori Battalion...
I wonder if Phil Goff is really stupid, or thinks that we all are — at least, those of us old enough to remember. Back in my youth we used to make the trip one Sunday afternoon a month from Hamilton to Albert Park in Auckland to what was at the...
A Mahia couple charged with illegal transactions involving 296 kilograms of black market rock lobster and paua, commercially valued at more than $11,000, have each received six months home detention, and lost their vehicles, boats and fishing...
Students had fun assembling a fully-functional robot as a part of an engineering workshop at Tonui Collab this week. The Project X workshop was a joint collaboration between Tonui Collab, Matai research centre and the Institution of Engineering and...
A piece of Gisborne history is going under the hammer and it's not just available to men. After being relocated to a Valley Road property and restored, the building that formerly housed the Gisborne Club has been put up for sale as a private...
A MAN grabbed a garden hose and tackled a fire that started in a washing machine at his home in Munro Street yesterday. Fire and Emergency NZ sent an appliance to the house at 10am.“The man was alerted by smoke alarms and had put the fire out with...
Still considering a shot at standing for the council or health board? With just one day to go before nominations close at midday tomorrow, there appears to be a lack of competition for some roles. That certainly is not the case for the two western...