Mike Robinson is a man on the run. He ran to second in the half-marathon at the First Light Marathon in Gisborne in January. He ran to first in the half-marathon at the Tarawera Ultramarathon at Rotorua in February. And last weekend he ran to...
by Kiri Allan MP for East Coast We’ve just released Budget 2023, which sets out more support for today and the next steps in our plan to build for tomorrow. I wanted to make sure that you’d heard about a few key initiatives, including a cost of...
by Marcus Roberts, Maxim Institute director of research “Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain ingenuity to re-rat.” So said Winston Churchill regarding the first 25 years of his political career, which saw him elected as a Conservative MP...
Finance Minister Grant Robertson has described his 2023 Wellbeing Budget as straightforward and practical for less than simple circumstances . . . the National Party has labelled it the Blowout Budget with “nothing for the majority of hard-working...
The New Zealand Institute of Forestry (NZIF) says the Tairāwhiti land use inquiry report is recommending measures that will stop the very activities which are vital for the region’s recovery. NZIF president James Treadwell said the Ministerial...
by Craig Kapitan An Olympic gold medallist accused of making lurid, “sexually aggressive” comments to two young female athletes and exposing himself to a third woman during an overseas competition is seeking a judge’s help in getting re...
The Gisborne District Council has put out an update on the ongoing road recovery around the region, working to repair and reseal Tairāwhiti’s fragile roading network. “An epic achievement last week with the completion of the Te Kowhai causeway...
A digitally monitored waka hoe has given students the chance to learn about science and technology in a different way. Students from Gisborne schools and kura attended the Curious Minds waka ama workshop held on the water and in Lawson Field...
Eastland Port exported 206,000 tonnes of wood across eight ships last month. “May is shaping up to be a good month with seven log ships having already been and gone,” said an Eastland Port spokesperson. The coastal container ship, Rangitata has...
Yet another low that has swung out of the sub-tropics is delivering doses of rain and wind, especially to the northern end of the Gisborne region. From this morning, MetService was expecting 50 to 90 millimetres about the ranges from Tolaga Bay...
The Government is supporting the clean up of slash and debris in Tairāwhiti and Hawke’s Bay with a $10.15 million injection that aims to remove up to 70,000 tonnes of woody debris from river and catchment systems, Forestry Minister Peeni Henare...
Gisborne is leading the nation’s house-building efforts as nearly every other region sees a decline, but the impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle mean the region’s housing situation is still in crisis. New statistics show 32 new dwellings were consented...
For the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic two new solicitors have been admitted in person to the bar in Gisborne. In a sign of things returning to normal, Daniel Cole and Angelina Kosenko were admitted as barristers and solicitors of the High...
Cyclone recovery needs and Maori housing and justice needs are the major winners here in the Government’s Budget announcements. Yesterday’s Budget focuses much on the cost of living and health costs (scrapping the $5 prescription fee) but there...
Retired All Blacks star winger Sir John Kirwan had a chance to express his appreciation of the work of the country’s first responders when he was in town this week. He visited the Eastland Helicopter Rescue Trust (EHRT) hangar — home to the...
"I shot the wrong person! I shot the wrong person!” That’s what a neighbour of murder-accused George Hallet Walker says she heard him saying when he and his partner Mercedies Grace arrived home in Walker’s distinctive grey ute moments after...
Sir John Kirwan says another knighted All Black, Sir Michael Jones, saved his life during an All Blacks tour of Argentina. The story was one of the most attention-grabbing anecdotes the All Black great and mental health advocate told in Gisborne...
Another bout of rain and wind is expected to hit the Gisborne-East Cape region overnight and tomorrow with a subtropical low moving south-east over the North Island. MetService says there is a moderate confidence of warning amounts of rain about the...
Moments before being gunned down on Titoki Street, Maraea Smith put her arm around her sister and pulled her to the ground. They had just heard a gunshot and Smith wanted to protect her sibling. Smith counted to 10 then told her sister they should...
Odeon Multiplex ■ Book Club: The Next Chapter Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Mary Steenburgen and Candice Bergen head to Italy. When things go off the rails and secrets are revealed, their relaxing vacation turns into a once-in-a-lifetime cross-country...
What's On This Week ■ Thursday Build-a-Band Smash Palace Bar, 24 Banks St, 7pm-11pm, free entry. ■ Friday Night Karaoke Breakers Jandal Bar, from 8pm to midnight, free entry. ■ GizzyBorn - NZ Music Month Local Artist Showcase Smash Palace...
It was 2017 and they were flying to a convention of movie theatre owners to drum up excitement for their movie where she, Jane Fonda, Mary Steenburgen and Diane Keaton play friends who decide to read Fifty Shades of Grey
Consciousness cleared its throat and smacked the gavel down. “I call this meeting to order. I have noticed rumblings within the body corporate and I wish to remind everyone that I am in command here. Do I make myself clear?” “Pompous ass,”...
The legacy of this most incompetent Govt of our time seems to be gathering pace as they feel their bumbling tenure may be coming to an end. Just this past fortnight we’ve seen continued strike action from public service workers, we’ve had...
One of the least fortunate side effects of your newspaper being printed in Auckland is that deadlines for copy now seem to be much earlier. For example, the ministerial report into forestry, available last Thursday morning, was not reported in your...
Changes to your newspaper since the start of this month have been significant and we hope it has been a good experience for most of you. Behind the physical changes you see — such as new fonts and colour on all pages — there has been a big shift...
Students wanting to access a career in Medical research here have been given a massive boost with the donation of $715,000. Gisborne’s medical research and education institute Mātai is the recipient, following the winding up of local charity...
No evidence of money laundering but city centre building owners in $11.4m ‘world of trouble’ with IRD
Two days of competition came to an end yesterday as the Gisborne Gymnastics Club hosted the Sport Gisborne Tairāwhiti School Gymnastics Festival. Students from 25 schools from around the region showed their skills on the vault, beam and the floor...
TAIRĀWHITI’S best photographers are invited to take on the rest of New Zealand as the Auckland Festival of Photography Trust announces the 2023 Music Photography Award – Whakaahua Puoro Toa is accepting entries up to Saturday, May 20. “Music...
A Gisborne man critically injured in a vehicle crash at Mahia on Sunday remains in what has been described as a “stable” condition in Wellington Hospital. Poverty Bay-East Coast representative golfer Andrew Higham was on his way home the morning...
There is a reason why the recent Ministerial Inquiry into Land Use should have been a Royal Commission of Inquiry. Put simply, for the sake of accountability. The report is blunt in its findings, largely heaping the blame for poor land-use controls...
NZ Landcare Trust has been acknowledged by the rural community for its dynamic response to the Cyclone Gabrielle clean-up in Te Tairāwhiti. Within days of the devastating cyclone, the independent, non-government organisation kick-started a focused...
It’s that time of year for the annual charity knits sale of new hand-knitted babies’ and children’s knitting and sundry other items. Once again, volunteer knitters have donated over 300 items to be sold at low cost to help families keep their...