Patrick Cooper’s letter “Any wonder some young white males rebel?” cannot be dismissed as “a fat load of delusional fear-based crap” as one commenter would have us believe. It seems to me that there is confusion between what boys and young...
Take the sacred korowai off, it’s not yours. Make your dodgy moves within the political arena and donations without denegrating taonga Maori. All in, or all out, not a $1 each way. We are surrounded by kupapa tikanga i Te Hurunga o Te Ra. All the...
The new Police Minister just added $9 million of taxpayers’ money to the “Retail Crime Prevention Fund” for fog cannons, knowing six months out from the election — and a $20 billion blowout of Labour’s second term — that fog will be the...
by Craig Bauld So, have we reached the stage yet where we can discuss Covid like grown-up people? Can we consider the official figures? According to MoH statistics, 90.2 percent of NZers got vaxxed, 9.8 percent didn’t. Call it 90 percent/10...
Concerns over Covid-19 have dialled back considerably as the pandemic has changed to something more like what many who opposed vaccination and mandates were claiming back when it was a much more serious threat to public health. They might like to...
REVIEW: THE WOLVES Unity Theatre’s production of The Wolves, which opened last night, is pacy, humorous and action-packed with never a dull moment. Set at an indoor soccer field somewhere in Middle America, each scene is a Saturday practice where...
Community to consider moving town to higher ground Plans to relocate one of Te Karaka’s cyclone-affected marae to higher ground could herald the way for the entire township to move with the addition of a purpose-built emergency evacuation centre...
Questions have been asked about why Gisborne District Council has decided to turn this weekend into an extra long one for council staff. The council offices in Fitzherbert Street and Te Puia Springs will remain closed until next Wednesday, with all...
Should the council and/or the forestry companies be required to remove the heavier, dangerous pieces of wood debris from the beach now?
A Gisborne man accused of punching an older woman in the head during the heated Posie Parker protest in Auckland late last month appeared in court for the first time on Thursday, waving briefly to the magistrate before nervously folding his hands in...
Commissioner Foon ‘comfortable’ with donations to Labour MP Allan Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon is in the gun after revelations he gave significant financial support to Labour MP Kiri Allan in the lead-up to the 2020 election. Ms Allan...
Memorial cards honour WW1 soldiers killed far from home Sacred family heirlooms. That is how Colin Seymour feels about the photographs and postcard-type publications honouring his World War 1 serving relatives who lie “in a distant land”. One...
The amended version of Relay for Life 2023 proved a success despite being disrupted by flooding and Covid issues of the recent past. The revamped Relay Your Way raised $55,995 for Gisborne-East Coast Cancer Society, according to the Gisborne section...
The $200,000 project (above) to upgrade the Lytton Road culvert through which the Matokitoki Stream runs at Lytton West is nearing completion. Following Cyclone Gabrielle and the rain event at the end of February (right), extensive repairs were...
A large and dense smoke plume visible to the northwest of the city yesterday afternoon was from a controlled burnoff. Fire and Emergency NZ said it caused no problems. “We had no calls about it,” a senior Gisborne firefighter said. No further...
Daily 111 calls to police doubled in week following Gabrielle Crime levels in the region increased significantly after Cyclone Gabrielle but had returned to normal levels within a week, police statistics show. In the wake of the storm, police...
HARD work by contractors has seen the two piers that will support the Bailey bridge at Waikare Gorge on State Highway 2 between Wairoa and Napier now completed. However, it has not been enough to offset a delay to the timeline for opening the...
Gisborne Thistle will be several men down when they play Central Federation League leaders Napier City Rovers Feds in Hawke’s Bay tomorrow. Centreback Matt Smith aggravated a calf injury in the 1-1 draw with Taradale last week, midfielder Cory...
The Gisborne Giants superstock team will be in action tomorrow night in the ‘Teams Nationals’ event held at the Waikaraka Raceway in Auckland. They go into the titles in red hot form after two great meetings racing at the Eastland Group Raceway...
Tolaga Bay have a great chance of a bounceback performance when they hosts rounds 3 and 4 of the Oligoi Jug men’s interclub pennants tomorrow. The Uawa club had a disastrous start to the 2023 series at Patutahi last weekend. They won just one of...
Sometimes a mean streak comes in handy. And tomorrow the YMP Bumbles under Tony Barbarich have an assignment requiring that they be ornery in excelsis. Hooker Keanu Barbarich and first five-eighth Reihana Wyllie will lead YMP away for their clash...
by Sherrill Beale Waikohu and Horouta come under the spotlight when Round 1 of the netball season resumes at Victoria Domain tomorrow after a two-week break. All senior grades in the Pak’nSave competition will be in action on the courts from 9am...
The legendary Ian Kirkpatrick epitomises Ngatapa’s proud history of powerhouse forwards but it could be the backs who play a key role in Week 3 of the Poverty Bay premier club rugby competition. Teams will look to continue to find their groove in...
On a walk yesterday I crossed the Stanley Road footbridge and saw two supermarket trolleys in the river. I then crossed the Grundy Street footbridge and saw two more supermarket trolleys, a bicycle and a hospital-quality wheelchair in the stream...
The underlying tone of Dr Aitchison’s comments in the recent article about Three Rivers Medical being forced to reduce its hours of operation is to my mind, while giving a professional approach to our healthcare problems, almost desperate — and...
by Jason Heale, Maxim Institute communications manager The 1955 film “The Dam Busters” tells the story of Operation Chastise and the RAF’s plan to destroy Nazi dams with bouncing bombs. In the film’s climactic scenes, bombs go skimming...
The Independent Police Conduct Authority has given the officers involved in the riot that ended the 23-day occupation of Parliament a year ago a general clearance. However, police hierarchy has come in for some strong criticism with claims their...
Today is Poppy Day and Kirsty Gray and son Dane were among those to make a donation to to collector Maia Ferguson. Maia was part of a group of Campion College volunteers collecting money that will go towards supporting Returned and Services...
‘Trade-off’ from increasing number of Water Service Entities Gisborne District Council will no longer receive $21.62 million in Better Off funding as part of the Government’s relaunching of their water policy now known as Affordable Water...
Gisborne harbourmaster Peter Buell has urged everyone going out on a boat or jet ski to keep an eye out for large logs in the sea offshore of Gisborne and up the Coast. Logs and debris swept out to sea by Cyclone Gabrielle continue to float about in...
Cyclones Gabrielle and Hale and other recent rain events have destroyed an estimated 1200 beehives across Tairāwhiti and killed as many as 60 million bees in what a leading Gisborne apiarist describes as “considerable and widespread” impact...
With Anzac Day falling on Tuesday this year, police are expecting many people will have an extended long weekend. They are urging those travelling to wear seatbelts, to avoid driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, remove distractions, and...
A group of 16 young surf lifeguards from across the Eastern Region took part in an intermediate lifeguard development event in Gisborne over the weekend. The school provides junior lifeguards with skills, knowledge and connections to develop as...
A man accused of possessing drugs for supply at last December’s Rhythm and Vines concert — including the Class A substance LSD — is applying to be discharged without conviction. Rory Arthur Laurence Saunders, 20, was arrested just before...