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Caesarlicious delight

Sundays: A cookbook is a collection of fresh, modern recipes to celebrate that Sunday feeling through brunches, feasts, long lunches and quiet evenings. The book is full of laid-back food that’s absolutely packed with flavour and here’s one of...

Treasures and treats in Skopje

Mike Yardley discovers the enchanting blend of Ottoman charm and neoclassical opulence in Skopje, North Macedonia, unravelling a tale of history, art, and architectural marvels. Amid the spoil of delights that revealed themselves on my two-week-long...

Region’s thoughts with Juken workers

It seemed inevitable after the announcement three weeks ago about potential closure in the face of ongoing financial difficulties and tough trading conditions, but confirmation yesterday that Juken will close its Gisborne mill after nearly three...

Carbon credit illusion, ideas for the future

Clive Bibby Business support packages that are based on unsustainable incentives can do more harm than good. And those that involve special treatment of foreign companies, to keep them operating in this country, can prove disastrous — even if...

The frog, the scorpion and Hamas

Gwynne Dyer Stop me if you’ve heard this story before. Or rather, don’t, because it’s relevant to the current situation, and we have to bring the people who don’t know the story up to speed first. It’s about a frog, doing whatever it is...

Bitter medicine required

The current toxic shellfish warning is another sign of poor land-use decisions. What we do on land ends up in the sea — poisonous seafood is the payback we get for abusing Mother Earth. Algae and phytoplankton blooms are not just the result of...

Central back-to-back champions

Central School were the winners of the Division 1 Interschool netball tournament that ran through term 3 and Muriwai School took out the second division. There were 18 local schools competing this year, which was contested on a home-and-away basis...

New draft season, new team names

Fangs and claws are being sharpened for Round 2 of the second Gisborne Basketball Association Draft League. The inaugural competition was a huge hit last year and in with new team names, inspired by big cats. This weekend's action at the Gisborne...

Jurors hear covert recordings made by undercover cop

Arson is the “easiest thing in the world and very hard to trace” a woman accused of killing her father in a house fire, told an undercover cop. In 2020, the young officer who called herself “Millie” had been slowly befriending alleged...

Time to remember loved ones and to help Tairāwhiti hospice

Once again Farmers stores across New Zealand will be raising funds for their local hospice service in the lead-up to Christmas. It is the 10th year Farmers staff and customers will join together to raise funds, to keep hospice care free of charge in...

Juken Mill closure confirmed

Dozens of Gisborne mill workers have been told they will be out of a job just three days before Christmas.

Juken confirms Gisborne mill closure, 80 jobs to go

Dozens of Gisborne mill workers have been told they will be out of a job, just three days before Christmas. Juken New Zealand managing director Hiroyuki Kawado confirmed news that the Japanese-owned company was closing its Matawhero sawmill in...

Rocketships on wheels

gisborne Speedway Club tonight hosts the fastest machines in the sport in New Zealand — sprintcars. Seen by many as the pinnacle of speedway racing, the 800-horsepower winged warriors produce amazing racing. They can get around the track at an...

‘Vibe of the guys’ has Van Der Nagel heading to Te Puia Springs for the East Coast Open

Bay of Plenty masters representative Craig Van Der Nagel isn’t far away from becoming an adopted Tairāwhiti local. And he will move a significant step towards that this weekend when he heads up State Highway 35 to play in the East Coast Open at...

Seniors going home

The return of all senior club cricket to the Harry Barker Reserve tomorrow is great news. In Round 4 of the 40-over Premier Grade Doleman Cup matches to start at 12 midday, Bollywood High School Old Boys will clash with Breakers Horouta Te Waka on...

Artificial Intelligence for dummies

Gwynne Dyer I’m sorry I didn’t get my article on Artificial Intelligence in earlier this month during the “AI Safety Summit” at Bletchley Park, the historic World War 2 decoding centre in England. I got distracted by other stuff happening in...