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Te Whatu Ora-Tairāwhiti 'reaching out to past employees who may not have been paid correctly for leave'

Te Whatu Ora-Tairāwhiti is looking for former health board employees who may have been underpaid. Health boards, Ministry of Business, Innovation and Enterprise (MBIE), police and many other employers, including in the private sector, were found to...

Gisborne's median house price drops to $570,000

Gisborne’s median house price decreased by 5 percent year-on-year last month to $570,000, data from the Real Estate Institute shows. “The region saw investors tentatively returning to the market following the election,” REINZ chief executive...

‘Stoked’ to be in Funday Sunday final at NZ Blues & BBQ Festival

Young Gisborne musician Jed Skuse has made the final of the New Zealand Blues & BBQ Festival competition and has the chance to win three days of recording time and other prizes. The 18-year-old has original songs on Spotify and also plays a lot...

Ngarimu EC Open champ at 13

Wellington schoolboy Apirana Ngarimu upstaged the heavyweights to win the East Coast Open championship at Te Puia Hot Springs Golf Club on Sunday. Ngarimu, 13, defeated William Brown — the head greenkeeper at Poverty Bay Golf Club and a member of...

Bridge results

Monday, November 13 — Tūranga Pairs 3 (Howell movement) Katrine Matthews, Hans van der Kuijl 60.00 Vicki Nickerson, Frank Roach 59.52 Glenys Evans, Beverley Evans 57.92 Sally Knight, Yvonne Waide 54.29 Jean Turnbull, Caroline Taylor 54.17 Louise...

Gizzy Laser Half Marathon a 'cause close to everyone's heart'

Sunday event brings in nearly 300 competitors to run or walk despite the rain.

Community gets close-up look at Trust Tairāwhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter

A quad bike accident at Potaka last Thursday required a hillside landing by the Trust Tairāwhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter to get help to an injured farmer, who was flown to Gisborne Hospital in a stable condition. The chopper crew headed back up...

Dig hiss . . . garden spade cuts gasline

A person doing spadework in the garden accidentally severed a gas line to a house in Oman Street behind Kaiti School early on Sunday afternoon. Fire and Emergency NZ responded at around midday that day. “A resident had been digging in the garden...

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...

Campion taste victory in third round

Hamish Swann was a happy captain last Saturday. His Campion College team have now tasted victory three rounds into the 30-over Hope Cup championship of Senior B club cricket. In beating Horouta by 39 runs, the school team won the Naden-Taylor...

Air Force A109 helicopter wows students with ground visit

The chop of helicopter blades filled the air at Gisborne Intermediate yesterday when an air force A109 light utility helicopter dropped in for a flying visit. The chopper stayed on the ground for the visit and a talk to the students, before...

Heavy rain on the way

Another bout of heavy rain is on the way for the district, according to the severe weather outlook from MetService. A low is developing west of the North Island and is expected to deepen today, then move over the North Island tomorow, although the...

Plea to ensure fires are out

Firefighters were called to burning driftwood at the mouth of the Waipaoa River on Thursday and they have made a plea again for people lighting fires on the beach to ensure they were completely out before they leave the beach. Fire and Emergency NZ...

Numbers here reflect fifth wave of Covid

Covid-19 numbers are up in Tairāwhiti with 74 active cases, as the country experiences a “fifth wave” of the virus. The latest official figures, for the week up to midnight last Sunday, showed 5942 cases were recorded across the nation. Health...