Mental health campaigner and All Black legend Sir John Kirwan returns to the district next month but a day later than first flagged. Sir John, Westpac New Zealand’s mental health ambassador, will visit Tolaga Bay and Wairoa on August 10 as he...
What They Didn’t Teach Us At School” is the thought-provoking title of artist Clayton Gibson’s latest exhibition at Tairāwhiti Museum. The show is intended to generate conversations about the interpretation of New Zealand history, especially...
Nine days into the Women’s World Cup and the numbers don’t lie. The 2023 edition is well on its way to becoming the “most attended stand-alone women’s sporting event ever”, organisers say. The average attendance of over 28,700 after 16...
College hoops got the crowd in on Monday. The last night of Gisborne Basketball Association (GBA) secondary schools’ action drew 400 to the YMCA. They were treated to four great finals. In Division 1, William Collier-led Gisborne Boys’ High...
Uawa Hinetera took out the Secondary School A-grade title and Nga Uri a Maui Hine Rikoriko the intermediate title in Gisborne junior netball this season. The final games in both competitions were held last weekend. The secondary A-grade runners-up...
Aotearoa men’s and women’s teams have qualified for the 2024 Hockey5s World Cup in Oman. Gisborne couple Kahu and Joy Ripia were the kaumātua delegates for the New Zealand Māori Hockey-selected teams, who travelled to the Gold Coast as New...
We’ll be back. That is the positive news from Tahunga Golf Club after Cyclone Gabrielle cut a swathe through the nine-hole country course, forcing its closure for the 2023 season. In a July newsletter, the club has provided an update on its...
Through the highs and lows of her long and varied life, cyclone survivor Tahu Dansey-Owen-Ruru has found solace in a craft she holds close to her heart — weaving. Matthew Rosenberg caught up with her at her home on the outskirts of Te Karaka to...
This week the New Zealand High Court released a judgement of public interest in regard to a case brought by the estate of Lieutenant Colonel Tā Harawira Gardiner KNZM. The New Zealand Herald’s David Fisher examined why the case is so important...
Mike Yardley discovers the luxurious allure of the Emerald Harmony Star-Ship, offering a sensory journey through captivating landscapes and exceptional culinary delights. River-cruising has become a byword for languid luxury afloat, drifting through...
Celebrate the International Day of Friendship by gifting your friends the charm of Forget Me Not seeds — enchanting vibrant blue blooms. Forget Me Nots (Myosotis sylvatica) have delightful profusions of dainty blooms in vibrant shades of blue...
“Friends are the chocolate chips in the cookie of life,” remarked the renowned author Salman Rushdie. So, why not celebrate International Day of Friendship on July 30 by baking some delicious chocolate chip cookies for your dear friend?...
The Government has moved this week to restore confidence in the country’s carbon market and Emissions Trading Scheme, announcing changes to ETS settings so they will align with advice provided by the Climate Change Commission in July last year...
Bob Hughes On 11th March 2011, an earthquake and tsunami hit Japan and caused major damage to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Thousands of tonnes of radioactive water spewed into the Pacific Ocean and now Japan feels compelled to...
Tim Wilson, Maxim Institute executive director A rogue shooter loose in a CBD; two innocents slaughtered; a city shut down. Describing the event, the Prime Minister tears up before the cameras. So ended a week during which the Government attempted...
Gwynne Dyer The protesters in Israel came out every week for seven months to fight what they saw as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s assault on democracy, but they lost. On Monday Netanyahu’s coalition government passed a “Basic Law” that...
The fields were still heavy but at least the sun came out to play in sporting events around the district. Gisborne Boys' High first 15 produced a gutsy performance before going down 25-7 to world champions Hamilton Boys' High in a Super 8 rugby...
THE flags of nine golf courses will be flying in the top 16 of the 2023 edition of the King of the Coast which tees off at the Tolaga Bay course tomorrow morning. Defending champion William Brown will be hoisting three of those — his true home...
Eastland host Oroua, Hawke’s Bay, Auckland (3) and Northland super veteran teams at the Badminton Centre tomorrow. The super vets’ competition started in April. Ten provinces were split into two groups. After the first two weekends of...
Dylan Scott is the happiest man alive. The president of Central Hawke’s Bay rugby is over the moon at the prospect of hosting the 2022 Heartland Championship Lochore Cup winners and holders of the Bill Osborne Taonga — Enterprise Cars Ngāti...
Poverty Bay will be represented in force this weekend when four representative teams play on “foreign” soil. The first Heartland Championship match of 2023 is only three weeks away and Poverty Bay Wekas are gearing up with two pre-season matches...
Lytton Old Boys Traktion and Waituhi will contest what is likely to be the match of the round in Poverty Bay club hockey. Prem 1 men’s competition leaders LOB are favoured to win the clash which starts at 6pm on the Hain Farming Turf at Harry...
Speed and team pressure powered top four sides Waikohu and Whangara Old Girls to comprehensive wins in Premier Grade netball at the YMCA on Wednesday night. Claydens Waikohu (1) outgunned Character Roofing YMP (2) 73-40 and Whangara were 60-30...
Is rugby’s Kane Trophy about to change hands? A Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 three years without a Super 8 win will challenge Tauranga Boys’ College for the trophy on the Bay of Plenty powerhouse’s iconic Nicholson Field 1 from midday...
Hikurangi Mountain Maidens are the Ngāti Porou East Coast women’s club champions after a mudbath 14-7 victory over Tihirau Victory Club Mana Wāhine. They became only the third team to win the Hamoterangi Cup. Having beaten Waima 34-5 in the...
Wainui Beach School students are supporting staff members who are growing moustaches to raise money for charity. The school hopes to raise $1000 for I am Hope, the charity founded by Mike King to create positive societal attitudinal change towards...
More than 100 hazardous trees alongside State Highway 2 north of Te Karaka were removed during four days of closures over the past two weeks. Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency said the trees had become a hazard to road users, following heavy and...
Safety assessments are being made after a large section of a Māhia cliff-face slipped into the sea on Wednesday. A local Facebook community page showed a picture of the slip with a house at the top of the cliff. A spokeswoman for Wairoa District...
Police inquiries are continuing into the death of former Gisborne man Rowen Aupouri whose body was found washed up on Whirinaki Beach in Hawke’s Bay last Sunday morning. A rāhui that has been in place in that area since the discovery ends today...
An intimate Māori art exhibition showcasing the work of local artists of Te Aitanga a Hauiti and Uawa opened this week. Te Huapae – Tōi Māori, Tōi Ora, Tōi Hauiti, is on at Te Whare Hauora o Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti and is presented in partnership...
With the Women’s World Cup having kicked off, Te Tari Taiwhenua, Department of Internal Affairs (DIA), has given out a pre-game team talk about the rules around sweepstakes, advising Gisborne workplaces to avoid an own goal. Keeping to the...
A potential new population of shortjaw kōkopu, one of the five whitebait species, has been discovered in Māhia. Hawke’s Bay Regional Council senior scientist Dan Fake said the breakthrough discovery marked the first time the native fish has been...
Four schools in Tairāwhiti will benefit from the Trees for Survival Programme, a Rotary initiative that encourages and inspires young people to grow, nurture and plant native trees. Awapuni School, Patutahi School, Tolaga Bay Area School and...
A driver who ploughed through a fence into a house, seriously injuring a woman sitting at a kitchen table, has pleaded guilty to charges arising and will be sentenced later this year. Alec Thoreson Thomson, 37, was drink-driving for an eighth time...