Te Whānau a Apanui and the Crown have initialled a deed of settlement in recognition of their historical Treaty of Waitangi claims. Te Whānau a Apanui have 12 hapū and a population of approximately 13,000 people, with its area of interest being...
The district had another close call as a subtropical hosing over the past few days pushed the region close to the edge of serious flooding. Inland hill country, the Raukumara Ranges and East Cape area suffered the heaviest downpours, with one...
A residence in De Lautour Road in Kaiti was severely damaged by fire yesterday morning and the woman living there suffered smoke inhalation. Fire and Emergency NZ sent two appliances to the property at around 8.30am. Police and St John were also...
A rare outbreak of the potentially-fatal typhoid fever has been confirmed in Tairāwhiti. Responding to a query from The Gisborne Herald, Te Whatu Ora - Health NZ confirmed six cases of typhoid have been identified in a team of rural workers in...
A cash-strapped and disgraced former Gisborne lawyer has been ordered to pay costs associated with his failed bid to be reinstated to the profession. Christopher Manson Twigley must pay the New Zealand Law Society $3000 towards the $18,000 worth of...
A case of mistaken identity has resulted in a Gisborne dog being put down in error by the district council, which has apologised “unreservedly” for the mistake.
The stars aligned on Saturday night for a lucky Gisborne Lotto player as they shared the First Division prize with a player from Christchurch. Each will pocket $500,000. The Gisborne winning ticket was sold at Ballance Street Bookshop. A shop...
Space company Rocket Lab says all safety precautions worked as designed during the loss of a mission shortly after lift-off from its Māhia space port. The September 19 mission was lost when an issue was experienced at around T+2 minutes and 30...
Surf Life Saving New Zealand handed out its annual national Awards of Excellence at Te Papa in Wellington on Saturday night and Australia-based Gisborne clubbie Cory Taylor shared one of the major gongs. Taylor, a member of Dawson Building Midway...
“Goody bags” prepared for people affected by Cyclone Gabrielle have been taken from the workshop where they were stored. The last 42 of 101 bags filled with grocery treats had been stored in a shed in the industrial subdivision, ready for...
Torrential rain like Cyclone Gabrielle fell across the district in the past two days, causing widespread surface flooding and rivers to rise to warning levels. The downpour on Sunday night overloaded the capabilities of the city’s sewerage system...
Gisborne’s road to recovery from Cyclone Gabrielle will take years but there are positive signs of progress, says former Prime Minister Sir Bill English Speaking from Wellington following a recent visit to Gisborne, Sir Bill, who was the Minister...
Gisborne residents living in retirement villages have been asked to help put an end to “unfair” practices that in some cases involve some operators around New Zealand still collecting fees even when residents have died. As part of a government...
The driver of one car involved in a two- car crash at the corner of Peel Street and Childers Road late on Saturday afternoon was checked over by ambulance officers. An emergency services spokesman said the other vehicle involved had left the scene...
Alzheimers Gisborne Tairāwhiti was delighted when the president of the Gisborne Contract Bridge Club, Noel Minnaar and Robyn Cheyne called in with an envelope. The envelope contained a donation of $400 from Gisborne Contract Bridge Club’s charity...
Developer Yannis Kokkosis has been convicted and ordered to do 50 hours community work after abandoning an earlier application to be discharged over an offence for shifting contaminated soil in breach of the Resource Management Act. Kokkosis, 34...
Re: new safety fence at Gisborne library As a regular walker around the city, I find the comments about walking on an even surface quite funny. I feel a lot of the money being spent on canoe bridges etc. could be better spent improving our roads and...
Re: $3.83 million dollar bridge project at Kaiti Beach and proposed $6 million whare on Kaiti Hill. I absolutely agree with your sentiments “Blew my socks off” ex Gisbornite, Gisborne Herald 23/9. The timing for this kind of spending is simply...
Starting the working week with yet another Orange warning from the MetService in place was hardly encouraging for the district and there is a cruel twist as only a few days ago it looked like summer had arrived. Record September temperatures had...
Clive Bibby Listening to the different political parties contest the right to occupy the Treasury benches after the election campaign isn’t an exercise that instils confidence in the nation’s ability to extricate itself from the economic and...
As one who over the years has dabbled in high yield tourism, your front page headline “i-Site bombshell” got my attention. At last sanity was going to prevail and the i-Site was going to be given back to those tourism operators that are not only...
Away from home, on the brink of being out of Lochore Cup contention and on a five-game losing streak . . . Poverty Bay were up against a lot of factors in Week 7 of the Heartland Championship. They responded with a 31-17 win over Horowhenua Kapiti...
Young talent was on show at the Gisborne Competitions Society Inc 103rd Festival of Performing Arts which ran from Saturday to Monday. The festival involved three categories — dance, vocal and instrumental, and speech and drama. On stage at the...
The Eastland Helicopter Rescue Trust started with modest hopes for the charity auction it hosted at the weekend, but its supporters came out in force. Held at Farmers Air Showgrounds Park Event Centre on Saturday, the 2023 Bayleys EHRT Annual...
Erosion at the northern end of Wainui Beach is the worst it has ever been and is starting to impact on the historic Whales Grave area. After the corpses of 59 sperm whales were buried there in 1970, the site was left to decline until 2013 when the...
They’ll be back. The two men who carried out a Bay of Plenty takeover of the 2023 Emerre and Hathaway Poverty Bay Men’s Open are likely to return to the scene of their domination in six weeks time. Mark Smith, of Rotorua golf club Springfield...
Raglan surfers Luca Thompson and Alani Morse won the two major titles at the primary school surfing championships that finished at Makorori Beach yesterday. Morse retained the Year 7 and 8 girls’ division title she’d won the previous year. For...
INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS 180s: F Waihape, P Waihape (2NZEF TAO Spartans); K Arahanga, H Ngarangione (RSA Stallions); I Eyles (RSA Gunz); T Irwin (Brezz’n Gold); R Leach, T Reeves (RSA Outlaws); C Reiri, G Vaotu’ua 2 (2NZEF Rebels); A Taukamo-Pohio...
Disgraced former Gisborne lawyer Chris Twigley, who was struck off seven years ago for misconduct, is applying to be reinstated. A New Zealand Law Society (NZLS) process notifying members of Twigley’s application to restore his name to the lawyers...
Zach Rolls was happy enough just to have qualified for the top 16 at the Poverty Bay Open. This morning he teed off as one of the last four in the title hunt. The 18-year-old local pulled off two of the biggest wins in his budding career yesterday -...
News that the Government is taking another look at introducing a sugar tax and salt limitations would be welcomed in this district. The information is contained in documents obtained under the Official Information Act for Radio NZ’s series OFF the...
Gavin Maclean There are lots of bad ways to vote, but the worst are for change, expediency and isolated single issues. They are insidious as they appeal to people who are otherwise quite clever and passionate. Expediency. I was shocked when someone...
The fact that NZ First is actually standing a candidate in Tairāwhiti can only be seen as an upgrading of our local democracy. The recent head to head between Labour’s Chris Hipkins and National’s Christopher Luxton showed us that neither of...
A total of 528 sheep were sold at the Matawhero saleyards yesterday. Sales are being held each fortnight. Prices for the 195 store lambs eased slightly on those paid two weeks ago, while prices remained firm for the 97 prime lambs. Murray Fleming...