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Get ready for fireworks in GBA playoffs

Tonight, tomorrow and this Friday night are all about having fun by going hard. The club league finals at the Gisborne YMCA are set for Saturday — the men’s open grade at 4pm, the ladies’ championship 5.30pm, and men’s premier grand final at...

‘Give te reo Māori a go’

Gisborne Mayor Rehette Stoltz moved to Tairāwhiti from South Africa over 20 years ago and during that time here she has been on a journey of learning te reo Māori. As part of Te Wiki o te Reo Māori, kaupapa Māori reporter Matai O’Connor caught...

Kiwi calls fill night air at Whinray reserve

The Whinray Scenic Reserve at Motu is home to native brown kiwi which have been returned from the brink thanks to conservation efforts over the past 30 years, but the area is also home to other native creatures who are also benefiting from...

Sweetheart vine

True to its name, chain of hearts is a trailing vine plant with heart-shaped, variegated leaves. It is an easy-care, super-tough, hardy, hanging plant that can be used to fill a space situated up high in a corner or on a shelf. Oh, be still my...

RICE, SPICE, NICE

Elegantly simple, big on flavour and strong on comfort, these family favourites with step-by-step instructions make an ideal introduction to Korean cooking at home. Like all Koreans, I will always have kimchi and cooked white rice in my...

Echoes of Buller Bay’s glory days

Still in the South Island, Mike Yardley continues his journey and heads for Westport . . . Sizing up a spring roadie on the West Coast? Just south of Westport, Cape Foulwind Lighthouse stands sentinel-like on the headland – a totem to so much...

Call for clarity on construction work

Summer is going to be the season of the great recovery operation, not least in this region, but a recent report raises doubts about the ability of New Zealand to achieve even modest goals for improving our infrastructure. The latest Civil...

Life elsewhere: finding the Holy Grail

Gwynne Dyer This week’s real news is the discovery of life on another planet. As Cambridge University’s Nikku Madhusudhan said in the first sentence of his report: “The search for habitable environments and biomarkers in exoplanetary...

A squally thunderstorm after long dry spell

Black clouds, rain and touches of hail passed over the district late yesterday afternoon, after a 55-day dry spell. Met Service’s forecast was right on-target - "Showers, some heavy, clearing evening. Chance of a squally thunderstorm with hail...

Inquiries ongoing into drive-by shootings in city

Police are running inquiries into three more gang-related shootings in the city, subsequent to the shots fired at houses in Newton Street in Kaiti and in Mangapapa Road earlier this month. The first drive-by shootings occurred on September 6 and 7...

Cyclone insurance claims hit $86.18m

The final financial damages wrought on Gisborne properties by Cyclone Gabrielle here has been tallied and will cost insurance companies a whopping $86.18 million in payouts. Figures released by the Insurance Council of New Zealand yesterday...

Biosecurity alert for cruise ships

Biosecurity New Zealand has been working closely with cruise lines to ensure their vessels arrive into Eastland Port with clean hulls as the busy summer season approaches. The summer cruise season starts on November 13 here with the arrival of the...

Mackley St, seven months on . . .

by Neil Reid, Hawke’s Bay Today As builders and family continue to repair Sylvia Bell’s flood-hammered home, the widow has just one wish; to be back in the house she has lived in for the past 50 years by Christmas. Her house was among many badly...

Campaign hui focused on youth

Tāmati Coffey defended his East Coast candidacy after losing three years ago in Waiariki, Jordan Walker said “tax the rich”, Leighton Walker said she was not a politician, knew nothing about politics, but had people in her heart, and Dan...

Kōwhai blooms a sign spring is on the way

All the signs point to spring having arrived -—particularly the budding and flowering of the yellow-blossomed kōwhai tree. In Māori, spring is kōanga, and it is of significance that both kōwhai and kōanga share the word kō. Kō is the Māori...

Whānau full of thanks for community effort

“It’s a blessing.” That’s how Connie Kara of Iaopa Road in Te Karaka feels about having her uninsured home fully renovated, thanks to funding from iwi and government agencies. Ms Kara lives there with 11 others in a home that holds many...