Latest from Gisborne

Adapting to new format, news cycle

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...

$715k donation to Mātai as QET winds up

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...

‘Blatant’ tax evasion

No evidence of money laundering but city centre building owners in $11.4m ‘world of trouble’ with IRD

Students in action at annual Tairawhiti School Gymnastics Festival

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...

Still time to enter Auckland Festival of Photography music photo competition

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...

Man in ‘stable’ condition after Mahia crash

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...

Government ‘not held to account’ in land-use report

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...

Trust praised for cyclone recovery work

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...

A history of catastrophic Govt policy blunders

COMMENT I agree with Manu Caddie (Gisborne Herald, May 16) that GDC has been caught between central government and th Dame Anne Salmond e forestry industry for generations. Wholesale land clearance of the highly erodible steeplands in Tairāwhiti...

Tairāwhiti performing artists now eligible for excellence awards

Talented young performing artists here can now join those across the country who are being offered a financial boost thanks to the Dame Malvina Major Foundation. The Foundation’s Arts Excellence Awards support young New Zealanders of outstanding...

Initiative wins Community Innovation category at BBNZ Awards

Gisborne Basketball Association’s Hoops in Parks Tairāwhiti initiative has been recognised at the 2023 Basketball New Zealand Awards in Wellington. The Kylie Turuwhenua-Tapsell-chaired GBA won the BBNZ Community Innovation Award. The initiative...

Wairoa's Gaiety Theatre projector is ready to roll

Movies will once again be back on the big screen with the Gaiety Theatre projector repaired and ready to roll. A technical breakdown with the Series 1 Christie projector meant the end of local movie screenings in August last year. Since then, the...

Gymnasts take flight for champs

A marah Cameron won all-round gold in her division and Sarai Gudgeon won silver in hers at the Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay Senior Gymnastics Championships in Napier. They were among Gisborne Gymnastics Club members competing from Step 4 to Step 7 in...

Double defeat for super vets

Eastland representatives returned to Gisborne with two losses after their first-round ties in the 2023 inter-association super veterans’ Division 2 badminton competition in Hawke’s Bay. They played Waikato and Hawke’s Bay. Eastland team...

Smash Palace seven-card Gisborne extravaganza marks NZ Music Month

Gizzy musos have collaborated to bring together seven acts for NZ Music Month this May. Smash Palace will host GizzyBorn a local artist showcase on Saturday night. Acts taking the stage are ‘The Voles’, ‘Natasha Lee’, ‘Levi Mackey’...

PRIMARY SCHOOL FOOTBALL DRAW

First Kicks 4v4, Watson Park , 8.30am: 1, Awapuni Green v Kaiti Paoa; 11, Central Tahi v Te Wharau Kereru; 2, Central Rua v Te Wharau Kiwi; 3, Central Royals v St Mary’s Asteroids; 4, Makauri Warriors v St Mary’s Stars; 5, Te Hapara Toru v...