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All the fun of the circus

The circus came to town for Te Hapara School on Monday. Otherwise known as Clint Woodvine, Mr Circus is a one-man travelling show visiting schools across New Zealand. He had a keen audience of excited and enthusiastic children at Te Hapara School...

Police release name of Wainui pedestrian who died on Saturday

Police yesterday released the name of the man who died in an incident on Moana Road at the northern end of Wainui Beach on Saturday. He was 70-year-old Alan Hjorth of Wainui Beach Gisborne. Mr Hjorth was walking along the footpath opposite the...

Lotto winners claim $10m

The massive $10 million-plus Lotto win that came the way of someone who bought a ticket in Wairoa was claimed on Monday afternoon. The winners went to Lotto HQ in Wellington to collect their winnings. The ticket was sold at Wairoa’s New World...

Teething problems with pool heating

The public opening of the new Kiwa Pools at the weekend was affected to a degree or two by slightly cooler water temperatures but that did not deter more than 2000 people from visiting the complex for a dip. Three of the four public sessions on...

End of the golden summer

Councillors to consider recommendation to prohibit freedom camping at Turihaua and Pouawa

Sneaky Reekie sinks Bay

A drop goal in the 79th minute decided a thrilling Week 4 Heartland Championship match at the Oval on Saturday. Civil Project Solutions Poverty Bay Wekas fought back with a late try double to fullback Ricardo Patricio to level the game only for Mid...

Coast pick up third straight win

Sky Blue rugby fans worldwide jumped for joy on Saturday. The Enterprise Cars Ngāti Porou East Coast Kaupoi, holders of both the Lochore Cup and Bill Osborne Taonga, beat Francis Mining Buller 24-21 at Victoria Square in Westport. A weekend of...

Crossing the finish line

Gisborne Intermediate School’s Sylvia Allen on her way to second among 128 other Year 8 female athletes in the 3 km cross country event of the AIMS Games on Sunday. She crossed the line in 11 minutes, 8.74 seconds — 11 and a half seconds behind...

Innocent childish fun or sexual abuse: jury to decide

A man’s nieces claim he sexually offended against them for years but the accused says they simply outgrew the rough and tumble, childish fun he’d always had with them and he didn’t realise they’d begun perceiving it differently. On trial...

Allan reveals she had been unhappy for a long time

Former Justice Minister Kiri Allan has opened up about the grief she has experienced over the last month, the cost her job has taken on her family and new mental health diagnoses. Allan, who resigned her portfolios and went on indefinite leave in...

Exercise to ensure capability in marine oil spill situation

A marine oil spill exercise is being held at Kaiti Beach today. The exercise is based on a scenario where a private launch has anchored just off the rocks at Kaiti Beach after losing power coming into the region. The launch has 400 litres of diesel...

Hot, dry summer raises need to manage wildfire risk: FENZ

Fire and Emergency New Zealand is urging people to start preparing for the risk of wildfire early with hotter, drier weather forecast this summer. Service delivery wildfire manager Tim Mitchell said the forecast higher temperatures, reduced rainfall...

Institute bakers turn bucks to bikkies

Women’s Institute members have been busy baking for a good cause. In 2017 the Poverty Bay Wairoa members sent a cash donation to the Eastern Bay of Plenty Women’s Institute to help out when Edgecumbe was flooded. The donation was reciprocated...

Foon defends trust after decision not to continue with food processing plant

Criticism of a 2019 Provincial Growth Fund grant for a processing factory project run by a Gisborne social enterprise have been labelled election- year “rubbish” by former mayor Meng Foon. A report published by Stuff said the project was the...

Driveway fatality after man hit by car in Wainui

A man has died in Gisborne Hospital after he was struck by a car as he walked along the footpath in Moana Road at the northern end of Wainui Beach. The incident happened at around 12.20pm on Saturday, opposite the Whales grave. “The man, aged 70...

Police probe 501 deportee's suspicious chemical orders

Police suspect a 501 deportee returned from Australia for cooking meth planned to do the same thing here and began ordering the necessary chemicals soon after arriving at a managed quarantine hotel in 2020. Among those chemicals was an alleged 350...