The Government has responded to pressure to relax rules around approval for the use of medical cannabis, following several high-profile cases and a petition late last year signed by 17,000 people. Associate Minister of Health Peter Dunne announced...

A Gisborne school leaver who is to study towards a diploma at the New Zealand School of Tourism is the recipient of Tourism Eastland’s inaugural scholarship. Lytton High School’s Scarlet Conquest was this week presented with the $500...

TICKETS have gone on sale for the annual kids fishing trip to the Ngongotaha trout hatchery near Rotorua and organiser Murray Ferris again expects to see them sell out fast. The day trip to the hatchery is on Saturday August 6.“Once again we will...

Re: Green defends death rates, Jan 5. In this recent article Jim Green is quoted as saying “. . . there is no hospice in Tairawhiti and this service is provided by Gisborne Hospital”. I assume Mr Green has been misquoted or edited, as he is well...

THE call has gone out for shearing contractors and staff to get in behind shearing competitions throughout the country as hard-working organisers struggle to get enough entries. While entries for many of the close to 60 competitions each summer are...

GISBORNE police will join their colleagues around the country in a targeted campaign to try to reduce the number of house burglaries, particularly those perpetrated by young people. Operation Focus is a month-long effort aimed at reducing the number...

Former Gisborne man John West has been appointed as the new head of the schools of business and computing at Eastern Institute of Technology. Mr West, an academic leader and tertiary manager, was the product and service manager at eCampus NZ, one of...

Jack Kuru – the legend road builder. These words are enscribed on the wall of the Wairangi whare as a reminder of Jack's time building roads in Wairangi Forest in the early 2000s.I remember vividly the day Jack's D8 bulldozer was on the transporter...

THE near-completion of a second launch pad at Rocket Lab's Mahia base marks a busy 2021 for the space company.“We'll be working towards launching monthly from Launch Complex 1, where we'll have two operational pads from mid-year,” said Rocket...

GISBORNE is suffering the effects of “tough” Government policy on regional economic development, a Green Party MP said this week. Underfunded social services and high unemployment rates were the outcomes and evidence of this, Jan Logie said. The...

THE INNER harbour turned black following the recent heavy rain, with the colouring even making its way out into Poverty Bay. A regular fisherman at the port rang the Herald in disgust on Wednesday last week when the water turned black.“I fish here...

What do I see in the future for us in electronic Tairawhiti?The biggest word out now is “disruption”. It is no longer good enough to be doing business or providing goods and services in the same way we used to. New technologies are here and they...

Questions about an unusual red and yellow apple found recently in the fruit bin at a local food outlet have been answered. Photos of the fruit featured in The Gisborne Herald's Focus on the Land section on Wednesday.“The picture of the Cripps Pink...

WELL-known East Coast couple Nehe and Lucy Dewes will celebrate 60 years of marriage, along with their 80th birthdays, in a special celebration at Tikitiki on Saturday. Lucy celebrates her 80th birthday on January 20 and the couple decided that was...

THE Labour Party’s new East Coast candidate has welcomed the announcement that more rural areas in the electorate will be connected to Ultra Fast Broadband but bemoaned the time it will take to complete. The Labour candidate for East Coast, Kiri...

A GISBORNE Girls’ High School group has come up with a way for the hearing-impaired to experience music. After a seven-year hiatus, the Young Enterprise Scheme YES, is back operating in Gisborne. YES is a year-long business learning opportunity for...

A correspondent yesterday asked our mayoral candidates: “As an ECT trustee, will you reduce the cost of household electricity supply in Gisborne?” A better question might be, would you take up the mayoral seat on the trust?For a start, the mayor...

Donald Trump yet again dominated headlines in the week just past but from New Zealand’s more staid political scene one of the most interesting things was commentary and some history around the 25th anniversary of the New Zealand First Party. The...

Firefighters were called to Munro Street in Elgin yesterday afternoon after FENZ received reports of powerlines smouldering. The calls came in at about 4.50pm.“We stood by until Eastland Network faults staff arrived to isolate the problem,”...

Work is progressing well on Gisborne's new Kiwa Pools complex which is replacing the ageing Olympic Pool Complex. Construction is on schedule for the complex to be completed and open on time in March 2023

Grant to fund study of ‘uniqueness’ and nutritional benefits

Guess there just had to be another name-calling critic of rail supporters (March 6 letter). Paul Gretton sees the world through dollar-tinted glasses by making “business acumen” the one criterion for evaluating infrastructure needs. Obviously...

Hats off to the councillors who opposed the adoption of the Long-Term Plan — you are legends!The Mayor can talk about balancing urban against rural services, which is fine, but there is a line where being charged for a non-supplied service is...

THE education and wellbeing of over 2682 Gisborne children could be at risk, with as many as one in four suffering from an undiagnosed eye condition, says Specsavers Gisborne optometrist Nick Whittingham. This comes as new research from the company...

A Gisborne woman's conviction for perjury after she altered a document for Family Court proceedings, has been quashed by the Court of Appeal. The woman, whose name is permanently suppressed, was found guilty at a judge-alone trial in Gisborne...

Gisborne Hiabs crew installed a full roof skeleton on to a two-storey house in Grey Street yesterday. Gisborne Hiabs owner-operator Justin Martin said raising the whole roof at once was a cost-effective and safe way of doing it. The project required...

The demand for accommodation for Rhythm and Vines festival-goers is stronger this year than ever before but Rhythm Houses helps meet the need, say organisers. Along with three-day tickets to the festival, hotel and motel packages have been snapped...

ARMED police were called out on Boxing Day after reports a man was seen firing what appeared to be an air rifle in the Botanical Gardens. When police arrived, he had disappeared. Police want to hear from people who were in the area at about midday...

With an Auckland alert-level change in place today, Rocket Lab is about to put the finishing touches to its second Mahia launch pad.“We are in the last stages of construction for Launch Complex 1 Pad B with one final component awaiting...

With three community cases of the more infectious South African strain of the coronavirus now linked to a case identified at the Pullman Hotel managed isolation facility, the Government is once again under pressure to implement additional Covid-19...