Contractors Siteworx Civil has made steady progress on cleaning the debris off the main city beaches this week after finishing at Kaiti Beach last week. Staff have been working at different locations along sections of the main beach from Waikanae to...
Gisborne District Council has invited iwi on to the Tairawhiti Resource Management Plan Committee, a joint decision-making body “with full powers of council”.
Barnardos Awhi Tairāwhiti Centre manager Quannah Nickerson reflects on the role she plays in early childhood learning as World Teachers’ Day is celebrated. She shares her vision with The Gisborne Herald’s Loren Sirl . . . An annual day of...
Gisborne resident Sophie Cairns from the charity From Me has recently returned from Papua New Guinea where she and some of the team helped set up libraries at schools in the Highlands region with books donated from across New Zealand. She shared her...
In 1973, fifty years ago on Friday, Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, coincided with Ramadan, the Islamic lunar month of fasting. But nobody raised an alarm in Israel when it was reported, two days before the Arab attack, that the...
A funding extension for plant and animal control work in an area where Gisborne’s main water pipeline crosses fragile land has been ruled out by the Department of Conservation. In July 2021, Gisborne District Council received $2 million under the...
The massive slip that destroyed a huge chunk of Tiniroto Road on Tuesday will have brought back memories for power company staff who ran for their lives in the same place in a landslide at the time of Cyclone Bola in 1988. That slip formed...
The Green Party wants more transparency and more public knowledge about Rocket Lab operations at Māhia. MP Teanau Tuiono says the party has concerns about what payloads American military, security and intelligence agencies may be putting into...
It’s the last weekend to wander through the stunning Te Ara i Whiti at Kelvin and Marina parks along the banks of the city’s rivers. More than 10,000 people have enjoyed the interactive visual arts experience that is part of Te Tairāwhiti Arts...
Poverty Bay A&P Show Association volunteers will gather at Showgrounds Park tomorrow for a major working bee ahead of the Spring Show next week. General manager Erica McNeil said they would be busy tidying up the last few jobs. “Our wonderful...
Free mulch is on offer at Parkview Nursery this weekend. Gisborne District Council will have a digger to load up trailers between 9am and 3pm tomorrow and Sunday. Parkview Nursery is next to 1017 Aberdeen Road and there will be signs to ensure road...
A Waimatā Valley resident and mother who took her safety concerns over increased logging traffic to the chief executive of a forestry company has had a positive response. Laura Watson decided to take action out of fears for the safety of children...
Two Gisborne police officers used reasonable force to arrest and restrain a man after he assaulted an officer, the Independent Police Conduct Authority has found. On May 27 last year, police were called to a party at an address outside Gisborne...
Feeling a little shaky lately? A swarm of small earthquakes near Gisborne could be the reason. Wondering about a sudden small jolt or being woken unexpectedly and you might find the answer in a bunch of light earthquakes just on the edge of...
A charity motorcycle ride has come up trumps for the region’s underprivileged children through a festive donation of toys to local trust SuperGrans Tairāwhiti. “More than 200 children within our community will wake up to Christmas Day with...
Wairoa and Nūhaka people can now take their full driver licence test through the town’s new community-led driver licensing programme provided by Tairāwhiti REAP. The Growing Drivers Locally (GDL) programme has been successfully running in rural...
A haka tribute was paid to All Black, Poverty Bay and Ngatapa legend Ian Kirkpatrick after the Heartland Championship rugby game at Paddy’s Park at Patutahi on Saturday afternoon. Kirky has spent endless hours behind the scenes supporting...
The voting public doesn’t appear all that enthused about either of our major party leaders, when asked in surveys who their preferred prime minister is, but there has been a significant shift in polling this month in the balance of preferences —...
In the past two weeks I have witnessed two incidences of dogs attacking young seals on Wainui Beach. The first was a small tan and white terrier attacking a seal pup resting on rocks at the beach opposite the Okitu Store. The owner ignored the...
Re: Happy to talk about Grey Street project, October 4 letter. Kia Ora Haimona. Thank you for your explanation which gives more background information about the Grey Street project. Congratulations to you and the adventure trust for your great work...
“Ancient one’s birth democracy. We nurture it.” Madness is sweeping over us in the form of the national elections. To vote or not to vote, that is the question. A Prime Minister with hair or no hair? To take the bait of race baiters or become...
Re: Hollywood Bridge. Hollywood was a landowner in the area in the early 1900s . He also owned a farm on the Pipiwhakao Road at Patutahi which was purchased from him by my grandfather in 1916. Bob Burgess
I guess that there are a few politicians who suspect that the TVNZ reporters and mediators who interview them are somewhat less than neutral in their questioning. In my opinion, Winston Peters could be excused if he so believed. Up until now the...
Familiar foes North Otago stand between Poverty Bay and a place in the Lochore Cup final. When these teams last met — at the Oval in Week 6 — the Bay trailed 38-12 at halftime but stormed back in the second spell to run North Otago close...
It’s finals weekend for Gisborne football. The Chris Moore Cup for Eastern League second-division teams and first-round Bailey Cup losers will be held at Childers Road Reserve at 2.30pm tomorrow. Second-division champions High School Old Boys will...
Seven-year-old Viggo is back, ready to take you on another thrilling journey filled with beachside fun, fishing escapades, and lots of delicious ice cream. Hello, it’s Viggo again. Since I last wrote we have had lots of adventures on our boat...
Summer Favourites by Vanya Insull offers classic Kiwi recipes, but with a summery, lighter feel. Featuring more than 70 recipes that you will turn to again and again, the book is destined to be one of your most well-thumbed cookbooks, with dishes to...
There are many, many reasons to grow wildflowers — besides from the fact they look gorgeous, wildflowers provide food and habitats for a diverse range of beneficial insects. Speaking for the vege gardeners among us, you can’t have too many...
Firstlight Network aims to instal a temporary line within 10 days to restore the link lost between the Pehiri and Patutahi sub-stations after a massive road slump at Tiniroto. Firstlight Network operations acting manager Linda Broughton said the...
The meaning of providing 24/7 service, 365 days a year came into play when the Trust Tairāwhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter rounded out the weekend with two missions, both under cover of darkness. For the first, at 1.30am on Sunday morning, the team...
Another 70,000 electors cast their vote on Tuesday, day two of early voting for the general election. The total of 71,134 votes was down on the 101,438 votes cast on the second day of the 2020 election, but up on the 48,238 votes cast on the same...
A woman who bottled a partygoer in the head during an unprovoked attack at a 50th birthday celebration has been praised by a judge for trying to turn her life around. Elsie Kiri Collier, 29, was sentenced to 24 months imprisonment by Judge Turite...
An Edmund Hillary Fellow and social entrepreneur from Botswana has teamed up with EIT | Te Pūkenga to help the Tairāwhiti and Wairoa communities eliminate slash and create business opportunities through a simple scientific method and co-creative...