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Challenge Cup final: Admiralty v Blues and Royals

A thrilling season of T20 Challenge Cup cricket is set to end on a high today at Harry Barker Reserve. It is an all-Gisborne Boys’ High School show in Week 6. From 3.30pm, Caleb Taewa’s unbeaten Admiralty and the Blues and Royals under Jett...

Shock at senseless loss of young lives

Gisborne has been in shock and whānau and friends are mourning after two lives were taken and three people were seriously injured in a fight in Elgin on Saturday night that spilled out from a 21st birthday party. It is especially tragic that the...

Collateral damage, or architects of our own future?

Clive Bibby Countries like ours (members of what remains of the Free World) appear to be divided into two groups of people who have already made choices about our future, both here at home and as members of the commonwealth of nations collectively...

ACC needs front-line boost

It has come to my attention recently that there may have to be cut backs in office staff throughout New Zealand by the Accident Compensation Corporation. I hope that ACC looks very carefully at its staff as it’s noticeable around communities in...

Keep our zone nuclear-free

I heard on Monday’s RNZ news that “New Zealand is ‘actively looking’ for ways to participate in the controversial AUKUS pact, where work is already under way into putting AI into submarine-hunting planes and radar into deep space for...

Close encounters of the rugby kind in Poverty Bay-EBoP exchange

Three close encounters, two cancellations and one blowout summed up the Poverty Bay club rugby preseason matches against Eastern Bay of Plenty teams in Gisborne on Saturday. Unfortunately, Poverty Bay reigning Premier champions YMP’s clash against...

‘Incredible weekend’ for Waikanae

Waikanae’s inflatable rescue boat crews finished a highly creditable third overall in the Surf Life Saving NZ national IRB championships at Waikouaiti Beach in Otago over the weekend. The four Kaiaponi Farms Waikanae crews came home with two gold...

Wainui Beach School rule the pool

The numbers were excellent and the man on the ground should know. Enterprise Cars Aquatic Centre founder Gary Martin, who has been involved with the sport for more than half a century, was one of 20-plus volunteers who helped Te Wharau School run...

‘It was sad; screaming, yelling, crying’: Neighbour describes brawl that killed two

by James Pocock A nearby resident of Manuka Street said she saw the fight and heard party guests crying out in a panic during a fatal fight outside an Elgin house in Gisborne on Saturday night. Cordons remained in place and police forensic staff...

Scholarship winners’ values align with 28 Māori Battalion

Whānau, hapū and iwi gathered at the C Company Memorial House on Friday to celebrate the awarding of scholarships to Māori students and academics demonstrating characteristics that align with the values of the 28 Māori Battaltion. The Ngārimu...

Birthday tragedy: Man killed in Gisborne brawl was celebrating his 21st

A young man meant to be celebrating his 21st birthday has been identified as one of the victims in a fight at an Elgin property that ended with two men dead from stab wounds and three taken to hospital with serious to critical wounds.

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One arrest at scene of mass brawl where two people were killed

Police have spoken to media this afternoon about the investigation into a mass brawl last night that left two people dead - confirming it involved gang members and started after two uninvited guests arrived at a 21st birthday party. About 100 people...

Two people killed, three suffer critical injuries after street brawl in Elgin

Two people are dead after a large altercation involving up to 100 people in Elgin last night. Police said they had launched a homicide investigation after disorder broke out on Lytton Rd at around 11.30pm. “A number of Police units were needed to...

Done NZ, now for the UK

Lyall Evans is busy preparing for a UK cycle adventure. Talking to Loren Sirl, he reflects on a lifetime’s love of exercise and sport. While the rest of us are savouring the last few hours of sleep before the dreaded alarm goes off, Lyall Evans is...

‘There will not be a better facility anywhere’

A project to rebuild the grandstand at Rugby Park, originally funded as part of Covid-19 recovery four years ago might be taking longer than expected but as The Gisborne Herald’s Andrew Ashton found out the unexpected also throws up pleasant...