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Vax event at the station

Turanga Health kaimahi (staff) will host another vaccination drive-through service at Te Wai-o-Hiharore (the railway station) on Sunday. Vaccinations will be provided to the public in the comfort of their own waka amid a friendly atmosphere with...

Tent city preview for Conservation Week

Gisborne residents are invited to a free sausage sizzle and information event on Sunday, to prepare for Conservation Week, which runs from Monday August 14 to Sunday August 20. Conservation groups from across the region will set up a “tent city”...

Fire destroys unoccupied house near Te Araroa

A home alongside State Highway 35 north of Te Araroa was destroyed in a blaze in the early hours of Wednesday morning. The cause remains under investigation. Fire and Emergency New Zealand received the first 111 call about the fire in the unoccupied...

Many hands on rural support project bag project

Rural Women New Zealand (RWNZ) national board chair Sandra Matthews gathered a team of volunteers in Tairāwhiti last weekend to pack 287 support bags for distribution to farming families. RWNZ members from all over the country have donated...

Port puts on a community hat

Clients using Gisborne’s Sunshine Service are greeted by some new faces on a Friday once a month, the result of an initiative to increase the service’s volunteer base. The faces belong to members of Eastland Port’s senior management team, who...

Urgency for indoor courts venue in Gisborne ‘acute’

The call for an indoor sports centre in Turanganui-a-Kiwa/Gisborne is intensifying as several sports experiencing significant growth feel acutely the impact of a lack of facilities. Sport Gisborne Tairawhiti chief executive Stefan Pishief says the...

Coast out to hit ground running

Saturday morning is expected to be frosty. And from 2.30pm an overcast sky and a nor’ westerly breeze will greet Enterprise Cars Ngati Porou East Coast and their Round 1 Heartland Championship opponents Wairarapa Bush. Dealing with the Reece...

Semifinal thriller raises Y roof

YMP (1) are a win away from retaining the Premier Grade crown but only after squeezing past a committed Whangara Old Girls (1) in the 1 v 2 semifinal at the YMCA on Wednesday night. The defending champions won 48-45 in a semi that went down to the...

Walker-Leawere serves ban for cannabis use

Tairawhiti-raised Hurricanes lock Isaia Walker-Leawere has served a one-month ban from all sport after testing positive for cannabis use. Walker-Leawere tested positive after the Hurricanes played the Fijian Drua in Suva in May and served his ban...

New foundation trustees 'believe in our kaupapa'

The Sunrise Foundation welcomed new trustees Mike Torrie, BDO managing partner, and Leslynne Jackson, Manaaki Tairāwhiti project manager, to their board of trustees at the recent AGM. “Mike and Leslynne’s respective roles and experience in the...

Serious Fraud Office could be looking at cyclone grant fraud

The Serious Fraud Office with neither confirm nor deny if it is investigating cases of fraud here around misuses of the Government’s recent cyclone recovery business grants. Earlier this week, the SFO issued a new strategic focus, listing...

Latest figures show 153 with Covid-19 in Tairāwhiti

Tairāwhiti has 153 cases of Covid-19, according to the latest figures released by Te Whatu Ora. Total Tairāwhiti cases “recoded” since the Covid epidemic began in 2020 number 24,820 and include 35 deaths. All Te Whatu Ora data on Covid relates...

Bridge-strengthening programme on hold as GDC prioritises storm recovery work

Gisborne District Council is to suspend its programme to strengthen existing bridges during the current financial year because staff have been reprioritised to focus on storm recovery work. The $650,000 annual programme was implemented to enable 50...

Tairāwhiti farm conversion stats 'alarming' says Beef + Lamb NZ

New research shows the scale and pace of sheep and beef land purchased for forestry is even higher than first thought. An updated Orme & Associates report on land-use change from pastoral farming to large-scale forestry shows the amount of land...

Helping working mums to continue breastfeeding

Workplace challenges remain the most common reason for women to never breastfeed or to stop breastfeeding earlier than recommended. That is the key issue behind the theme for World Breastfeeding Week 2023 — Enabling breastfeeding: making...

Opposition to Tokomaru Bay United Sports Club increasing its footprint at park

A council decision to approve a lease in principle on culturally significant land in Tokomaru Bay was made without a full swathe of information available to councillors, a report has revealed. Last September, Gisborne District Council’s operations...