A Gisborne councillor has taken aim at the state of the region’s roads, accusing the council of not maintaining them to national standards. But the council has pushed back, saying the amount required to meet community expectations is not...
A Gisborne restaurant owner has been left reeling after a thief broke in and stole thousands of dollars of stock and equipment. Gisborne Zambrero owner Blake Webb said the thief broke in twice on Sunday night and took two brand-new point of sale...
The young man last seen in the Raupunga/Mohaka area at around 10pm on Monday last week remains unaccounted for and police and family have repeated their plea for information about his whereabouts. The search for Matthew Knight is ongoing...
The Chief Ombudsman says Radio New Zealand should release a full transcript of the speech former Minister and former East Coast MP Kiri Allan made at her then partner Māni Dunlop’s farewell event. Mr Boshier began an investigation under the...
The Electoral Commission says East Coast polling booths were busy on Saturday because election day coincided with the Poverty Bay A&P Show. “It was busy on election day and there were queues at some voting places, and we thank voters for their...
Cooler weather is putting the brakes on a a good start to the region’s growing season. Air and ground temperatures are still below normal and this slows grass and seedling growth. At the moment, daytime highs are running almost half a degree below...
A Gisborne man grew so perturbed by the state of his local creek that he left print-outs in neighbours’ mailboxes to see if they shared his concerns. Earlier this month, Mangapapa resident Rob Moore distributed half a dozen photos of a blocked...
Coastguard Gisborne have been declared joint winners in Coastguard New Zealand’s Awards of Excellence in the Rescue of the Year category. “The awards acknowledge the incredible efforts of volunteers in the face of adversity,” a Coastguard NZ...
People in Gisborne are being urged to help “kick breast cancer to the kerb” this month by collecting for Breast Cancer Foundation NZ’s Pink Ribbon Street Appeal. Around 10,000 volunteers will be hitting the streets all over New Zealand on...
If you see a bright orange gazebo by the boat ramps this summer, go and have a chat. It means Harbourmaster Peter Buell and the Māori Wardens are close by to ensure good information is readily available for anyone going out on the water. They’ll...
Poverty Bay A&P Spring Show National Dancing — Cups and trophies C Jolly Memorial Cup PB & EC Championship Highland fling under-12yrs: Mali McGrail Jackie and Gillian Dodd Cup PB & EC Championship sword dance u14yrs: Mali McGrail. Mrs...
Waikato triallist Leo Jecentho and Zap won the Spring Show dog trial championship title on Saturday morning in what was described by the judge as a “brilliant” final runoff. Jecentho scored 99 points out of 100 in the final, to nudge out...
Muka Tangata, the Workforce Development Council for the food and fibre sector, is seeking feedback from people here on new, simplified qualifications for seafood workers. Chief executive Jeremy Baker said the proposed new qualifications are easier...
Having opened the door to dealing with Winston Peters after the election, National leader Christopher Luxon went to great lengths to assure voters it would be a “last resort”. However, the calculus of forming “a strong and stable government”...
Josiah Brown, Maxim Institute There are some things a government cannot fix . . . a lot, in fact. As a willing victim of this year’s election debates, I was astounded by what politicians were prepared to “pledge” themselves to fixing. As we...
Elysabeth Wolter Hello, wonderful readers! I’m the founder of Lizzies Insights and I’m thrilled to invite you to join me on the 28th of October at the Cossie Club in Derby Street for a day of transformative workshops. This isn’t just about...
We are sad and fearful that New Zealanders have voted for some pretty cruel policies. National have never been friends of the poor and have said they’ll sanction beneficiaries once again. We remember Ruth Richardson and then Paula Bennett and Anne...
For goodness sake! Our newspaper has the intellect to name our Show the A and P Show; not A.M.P. The radio has taken their own direction in this naming. It is no more difficult to say “A and P” than it is to say A.M.P. Does radio have their own...
All three teams flying the Hear4U flag finished in the top five of the mixed teams section of the Motu Challenge multisport race on Saturday. Bragging rights between the three were shared as their order chopped and changed over the 172-kilometre...
Cornwall Oaks have retained the Brough-Thompson Trophy. The Hawke’s Bay Division 4 2B side beat local Senior B stalwarts Breakers Horouta by eight wickets at Gisborne’s Nelson Park. Former Poverty Bay men’s senior representative Blake Taylor...
A man with a passion is bringing out the best in junior cricket. Former Rere School principal David Milne, the driving force behind the West Gisborne Rural Schools team, will coach a Gisborne Intermediate School boys’ first 11 on the rise to the...
Poverty Bay July Hoepo-Williams and Karen Pinn won a 2-4-2 mixed pairs tournament at Poverty Bay Bowling Club. Sixteen teams contested the Mangapapa Garage-sponsored tournament on a sunny but very windy day. Each team played four 90-minute games...
A whopping $33,583 was raised for the Gisborne-East Coast Cancer Society at the 25th stockyard fundraising sale held to support Daffodil Day. Expressing gratitude, Cancer Society fundraising and events coordinator Shay Podjursky said to everyone...
Before election candidates spoke at the New Zealand Nurses Organisation’s Maranga Mai Election Evening Hui held recently, several nurses spoke of their experiences in the health sector. The following slightly abridged coverage comes from a Te...
Stop/go traffic management will be in place for one night only tonight at the Waipaoa River roundabout just south of Gisborne on State Highway 2. The stop/go signs and lower speed limit of 30kmh will be in place between 7pm and 5am on Wednesday...
A man who suffered a suspected spinal injury in the ocean on Sunday afternoon was fortunate lifeguards from the Wainui Surf Life Saving Club happened to be there for their annual general meeting. At around 2.50pm, Riversun Wainui lifeguards saw the...
The Gisborne Town Clock has turned pink this month to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month. From October 9 to October 31, the Town Clock joins more than 60 of New Zealand’s landmarks, streets and prominent buildings in the Global Illumination...
by Doug Laing Te Kuiti shearer Jack Fagan sent out another warning that he is out for some big pickings on the Shearing Sports New Zealand circuit this summer when he won the Gisborne Shearing and Woolhandling Championships Open shearing final at...
Whānau Āwhina Plunket has welcomed a familiar face back into the Tairāwhiti Gisborne team. Plunket nurse Kaye Foreman is known to many whānau in the region as she worked for Plunket at the clinic on Ormond Road for nine years. “It’s no...
A “fantastic” event that “showed the heart and soul that’s in our community” was how the 2023 edition of the ever-popular Poverty Bay A&P Spring Show was summed. Thousands of people flocked to Showgrounds Park on Saturday, following on...
Kirkpatrick’s victory a 9500-vote turnaround from 2020 election
The expected blue tide rolled in a little higher than the polls had suggested on Saturday night, but not quite enough to give Prime Minister elect Christopher Luxon the clear majority he badly wanted. Preliminary results out on Sunday saw Luxon and...
Gwynne Dyer Armies never tell you what their strategy is, but if you look at the problems they are faced with, you can usually figure it out. No solution they come up with can be perfect — wars do not allow for perfect solutions — but their...
Attention service providers! Recently I helped a 77-year-old homeless person. Her eftpos card was worn out and needed replacing, and as she has no fixed abode they hadn’t been able to update it. When she rang them, they told her she needed proof...