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Regional economy shrank a bit last year

The tough economic environment being felt by many local businesses has provisional numbers to it with the Infometrics December 2023 quarterly economic monitor, released on the Trust Tairāwhiti website last week, showing a 1.8 percent contraction in...

Hoping for more colour, less gloom

by Samantha Holdsworth In these times of concern and solidarity with the rainbow community in Gisborne, following the protests against the Rainbow Storytime initiative and the vandalism of the rainbow crosswalk, I feel compelled to add my support...

Govt excuse: too expensive to fix housing crisis

Building 400 new state homes in Kenepuru — CANCELLED; 400 new state homes in Onehunga — CANCELLED; 1000s of other planned state homes — CANCELLED It sounds like the valuable and irreplacable land that Kāinga Ora currently owns will be sold...

Devil of a job, but somebody has to do it

Community invited to help engineers decide the best way forward at state highway’s hotspot. Engineers working at the Devil’s Elbow on the Wairoa-Napier highway are considering all the options available for how to repair falling debris during...

Long or strong quake the natural tsunami warning

by Ben Ulisse, Wairoa Star East Coasters should watch for tsunami warning signs, says Kate Boersen of Illuminate Science. She was speaking at a presentation in Māhia last week on the potential threats posed to the upper North Island by tsunamis and...

Tsunami of March 26, 1947 swept in after quake

Last Tuesday was the 77th anniversary of the first of two severe earthquakes that occurred off the coast of Tairāwhiti Gisborne in 1947. This earthquake generated one of the largest tsunamis in New Zealand’s historical records. It was observed...

Gisborne rescue chopper in search for man overboard

Gisborne’s Trust Tairāwhiti rescue helicopter joined the major search for a crew member off a commercial fishing boat who was reported missing overboard off the coast of Hawke’s Bay on Monday night. The emergency services were notified around...

Crossing a political line

On the issue of “rainbow crossings”, there have been strong feelings expressed on both sides, in some cases somewhat intemperately. Whatever one’s views on this particular issue, one thing most of us can agree on is that rainbow crossings...

Help take bullies to court

Kia ora whānau, I know a lot of us are feeling unsettled, upset and angry at the violence against our rainbow whānau. Here is a chance to make a real difference and help Rainbow Storytime take the bullies to court! Rainbow Storytime is taking...

Here we go again . . .

This is a very emotive headline but is the result of a new Government refusing to spend money on what we need. That money wasn’t to be wasted by Labour, which built houses we own. It is just the start of yet another #nznationalparty Govt selling...

Inspiring speeches from young ‘rangatira’

Gisborne secondary school students shared kōrero inspired by the theme Te Taura Tangata — The Rope of Unity — at this year’s regional heat of the Race Unity Speech Awards. The Speech Awards have uplifted and supported the voices of rangatahi...

Buyers’ market with smorgasbord of houses up for grabs in Wairoa

More houses have come on the market than ever this past summer, says a Wairoa real estate agent. General interest and engagements per listing for the Hawke’s Bay region alone are up nearly 26 percent, while for the rest of New Zealand, it was up...

Tandem rescue chopper callout to BoP crash

Two North Island rescue helicopters, including this region’s, worked in tandem in response to a serious motor vehicle accident near Waihau Bay in the Bay of Plenty on Saturday. The two-vehicle accident was reported to NZ Police at 2.35pm. The...

Subdued economy ‘to be expected’

In the last three months of 2023, the Tairāwhiti economy saw little change from the previous two quarters. The regional economic development agency says the subdued economy reflects the lingering impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle, household spending...

Half the normal rainfall for March

A dismal Easter and wetter last half of the month has eased the dryness of local soils. Easter Weekend brought patchy wind and rain, but not much of the wet stuff, and March ended with less than half its normal rainfall. Rainfall totalled just short...

Loving Lego at brick show

Gisborne Lego User Group used an “A”-word different than the famous song from The Lego Movie to describe the second Te Tairāwhiti Brick Show at Ilminster Intermediate School hall at the weekend . . . “amazing”. Awesome would have been...