Controversial plans to change Gisborne’s transport priorities by building more cycleways and pedestrian crossings appear unlikely to get Government funding after Transport Minister Simeon Brown hinted funding priorities are about to change...
The redevelopment of Mangapapa School completed an important milestone on Tuesday, with the pouring of the first layer of concrete foundations for the final stage of the project. Main contractor, Currie Construction, and their team of subcontractors...
Practices of Gisborne forestry company Ernslaw One are in the spotlight after its Forest Stewardship Council certification was revoked following a report from Geneva-based auditor SGS Société Générale de Surveillance. Ernslaw has appealed the...
A major aerial mapping project intended to gather information on the region’s underground water resources concluded with a survey of the Poverty Bay Flats at the weekend. The project was carried out by Aqua Intel Aotearoa (a partnership between...
Raukūmara Pae Maunga restoration project has started the year with a pre-feed application which sets the stage for a 1080 drop. Raukūmara Pae Maunga is the largest indigenous conservation project in the world. It is led by East Coast iwi Ngati...
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Gisborne surfer Hannah Kohn saved her best to last and booked a trip to the ISA world championships at the New Zealand Festival of Longboarding contest at Papamoa on Sunday. Kohn, 27, won the open women’s title while fellow Gisborne surfer Dan...
Midway came home from the Northern Regional surf lifesaving championships at Whangamatā at the weekend with a stack of medals with the squad producing another strong performance ahead of the nationals next month. The club’s Under-19 athletes were...
Gisborne Boys’ High student Tristin Williams won’t forget his Super 8 secondary schools golf tournament debut on the Awapuni Links course yesterday. Playing in the B Division of the 54-hole event, the youngster racked up an incredible 60...
SATURDAY — Premier Grade DJ Barry Cup, Round 2, Day 1: Gisborne Boys’ High School 164 all out in 54.1 overs (Johnathan Gray 40, Nathaniel Fearnley 38 not out, David Gray 29; Keegan Jooste 4-31, Nicholas Armour 3-25) lead Bollywood High School...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon cast something of a shadow over the country with his weekend “state of the nation” speech where he described New Zealand as fragile, laying the blame for that on the former Labour government. In what often seemed...
Gwynne Dyer Vladimir Putin’s regime had been assassinating Chechen warlords, defectors from the Russian intelligence services and sundry wayward oligarchs for years, but its first political murder was the hit on high-profile journalist Ann...
Re: Look back to forebears, February 17 letter. Peter Best states that the building of a Buddhist stupa on Kaiti Hill is an insult to the memory of Christian missionary William Williams. I do not think Mr Best understands Buddhism at all. Buddha was...
The frontage of the Blitz Surf Shop in Wainui Road sustained extensive damage at around midday on Sunday when a van veered off the road and smashed into the building. The van ploughed through the left front corner of the shop and came to rest by the...
The elderly and disabled people are often forgotten during extreme weather events, a research project study has found.
Stand-up comedy, burlesque dancers and frank discussions about often taboo subjects like menopause, sex and relationships were all on the menu for the more than 300 women from around New Zealand who gathered for the inaugural Shepherdess Muster at...
The Marlin and Tuna Hunt tournament that concluded here on Sunday was “amazing with magnificent fishing”, Gisborne Tatapouri Sports Fishing Club president Roger Faber says’ Close to 100 boats and more than 330 anglers took part in the Gisborne...
Gisborne firefighters were called out twice at the weekend to put out fires left burning on the beach. It has prompted another request from Fire and Emergency NZ for the public to make sure they put out any beach fires they light. FENZ crews...
Members of the Tolaga Bay Bowling Club welcomed the reopening of their club a year after Cyclone Gabrielle took out the bowling green. President Sharon Olsen, a member since the early 1980s, said the green had had a lot of water damage from the wet...
In the week to Sunday the Trust Tairāwhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter team flew two helicopters and completed 12 missions, nearly twice their usual weekly average. “That’s a big caseload in anybody’s language and just shows the level of...
by Doug Laing Wairoa Mayor Craig Little is hoping the long-awaited State Highway 2 Waikare Realignment between Napier and Wairoa will go ahead without a hitch after resource consent was lodged with the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council. The consent...
Riding the region’s longest forest mountain bike track in summer is a great way to focus on technique instead of speed while having fun, says Motu Trails Charitable Trust chair Amy Spence. The 20km-Pakihi Track northwest of Gisborne is part of the...
A mission to help clean up space junk launched successfully from Rocket Lab’s Māhia spaceport yesterday. The mission, named On Closer Inspection, deployed an orbital debris inspection satellite for Astroscale Japan Inc. Rocket Lab’s Electron...
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The Government and KiwiRail have to come up with a solution quickly on what to do about the inter-island rail ferry service. In December the Government declined the state-owned rail operator’s request for an extra $1.47 billion for the...
Gwynne Dyer Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo concluded his second five-year term on Tuesday with a national election in which his chosen successors won a convincing victory. “Jokowi”, as everybody calls him, still enjoys 70 percent public...
Bob Hughes Re: ‘Doom is not inevitable’, Feb 10 AP story. Thanks Gisborne Herald for running this last Saturday. I noticed your heading and later subheading “There is still hope” didn’t appear in other mainstream news outlets. The new...
There are too many people to mention who are making so much sense about our city. GDC needs to get back to the now — fix the roads, dredge the rivers and start spending our money wisely. We are tired of your platitudes that sound like a fairy tale...
I am aghast at the prospect of a Buddhist monument adorning Kaiti Hill. Poverty Bay has a priceless Christian heritage which, sadly, has been forgotten. I therefore call upon Māori to look back to their forebears who embraced the Christian gospel...
Simin Williams While in Opposition, Todd McClay said Australian farmers were correct in expressing major reservations with New Zealand’s Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the European Union: “It was a good deal for everything except dairy and...
Paul Thompson, chief executive of RNZ and the broadcaster’s editor-in-chief, talked about Gisborne on the network’s My Hometown series. I moved to Gisborne as a six-year-old in 1973, four years before my first flood. It struck on June 20, 1977...
After a successful pilot in 2023, Te Wero ia Wenerei (The Wednesday Challenge) will launch again on Wednesday February 21 to encourage students and businesses to adopt better travel modes. Funded by Trust Tairāwhiti, the Challenge promotes biking...
Adorned with wide, violin-shaped leaves and striking veins, this upright leafy tree brings a touch of elegance to any space. Looking to create a bold statement indoors but with minimal fuss? Grow a fiddle leaf fig (Ficus lyrata). With its large...
Mike Yardley travels through the captivating landscapes of southern Montana. Southern Montana is the Wild West of dreams and the Hollywood big screen, sprawling over a rugged and serene landscape. Red Lodge is a small-town charmer, edging the...