A man who terrorised a child in the front seat of a car when he swung an axe through the windscreen during a meth-fuelled rage has been sentenced to intensive supervision. The passenger was a girl, aged about 10, who screamed in fear as Kade Tuahine...
Four community groups were supported with grants totalling $178,000 in the latest distribution round from Trust Tairāwhiti. Hikurangi Enterprises Limited, a not-for-profit whānau housing initiative, was approved $113,000 to go towards lease costs...
Family of the 10-year-old girl seriously injured in a log incident on the beach along Centennial Marine Drive hope she will be flown home to Christchurch today. Juliana Marston was playing on the two-tonne, 7.5-metre log at around 4.30pm on Sunday...
The Olympic Pool was shut for some time yesterday after a boiler issue affected the water temperature, which had dropped to around 25 degrees over the weekend. Aquatics Manager Campbell Macgregor said it was an “unexpected boiler issue” and it...
Former Gisborne woman, police Assistant Commissioner Tusha Penny, is set to leave the police top brass on a temporary basis. Asst Comm Penny begins a two-year secondment to Oranga Tamariki next month. She is in charge of front-line capability for...
Tairāwhiti has taken another step towards having a resource recovery centre (RRC) aimed at significantly reducing landfill — but only if funding can be sourced. Gisborne district councillors, sitting at a full council meeting, decided to proceed...
Vortex Power Systems (VPS) expects to begin building its revolutionary electricity generating trial plant at Whangara by the end of May. The Auckland-based company has developed technology that converts low-grade waste heat into carbon-neutral clean...
Emergency services were called to a crash in MacDonald Road near Juken NZ last night in which a vehicle struck a concrete power pole. But when they arrived at the scene, no one was with the station wagon. “It was the third time we’ve been to...
Another of the region’s forestry companies is facing prosecution by Gisborne District Council for alleged poor harvesting practices said to have come to light after storm events in March of last year. A case against Forwood Forest Management...
Barry Memorial Croquet Club’s golf croquet club champs are done and dusted. The championships were split into open and intermediate sections, the latter for players with handicaps of nine and over. Unfortunately, entry numbers for both sections...
The Senior 1 club rugby season is off to a rip-roaring start. Two-time defending champions Charteris Choppers Wairoa Athletic beat their hosts OBM 29-5, the Nuhaka V8s — team No. 3 in last year’s semifinals — beat Ngatapa Harvest Matawhero...
He and his boy came in, did a job and did it well. Veteran tight-forward John Mathias — who is shortly to return to Otago after three seasons with Ngāti Porou East Coast club rugby titans Uawa — played for five different clubs down south over...
The local speedway season ended on Saturday with a spectacular finale befitting the derring-do, never-say-die attitude of the Gisborne Speedway Club. An organisation built on enduring club spirit took on the uncertainties of the weather and won...
News that Gisborne’s main water supply was identified as being at unacceptable risk of catastrophic failure months before it was broken in multiple places during Cyclone Gabrielle won’t come as a surprise to anyone familiar with the situation...
It’s hard these days not to feel sorry for someone who is white, straight and male. Taught throughout their education that they are irredeemably racist, they are condemned for their ethnicity, their masculinity, their cisgender normality, their...
You never miss your water ’til it’s dry. These past couple of months since Gabrielle have been a trial to say the least, for some more so than others. I just wanted to send a massive mihi to all our road workers and all the men and women who...
The Trust Tairāwhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter team have received special acknowledgement for their work in the days and weeks after Cyclone Gabrielle. It came in the form of helicopter-shaped trophies — also presented to key members of the...
Home-course team Patutahi (1) flexed their muscles with a near-perfect return in the opening rounds of the Oligoi Jug men’s interclub golf pennants on Saturday. Patutahi’s four-man team beat Te Puia Springs 6-2 in Round 1 on the Patutahi course...
Gisborne Thistle opened their Central Federation League football campaign with a 1-1 draw against Taradale in Hawke’s Bay on Saturday. Striker Jimmy Somerton scored seven minutes before halftime for ALH Thistle and former Jags rightback Brandon...
Scorelines don’t always tell the story. Enterprise Cars OBM defeated High School Old Boys 55-22 in Poverty Bay premier club rugby on Saturday but for more than 60 minutes of a match in which the Peter Martin Cup was up for grabs, it was...
Pirates are a team to watch. That warning came from the opposing coach after Larsawn Ngatapa beat Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates 44-17 in premier club rugby at the Oval on Saturday. Ngatapa fought hard for their win and it was only late in the second...
YMP continued their strong start to the Poverty Bay premier club rugby season with a hard-earned 26-7 win over Waikohu at Barry Park on Saturday. Earthwork Solutions HSOB showed grit at the Oval but Enterprise Cars OBM came out on top 55-22 to...
My son and I thoroughly enjoyed the Friday acrobatics and flying manoeuvres with the crowd of spectators at Waikanae Beach. The display of dried arrangements of logs and debris from a washed up tidal floodline in front of us was instantly forgotten...
The korora/little blue enguins that nest here have been mentioned by David Attenborough to be the smallest of all penguins. They are beautiful to see in real life and we still have an opportunity to see them at Gisborne’s Kaiti Beach — if we can...
More houses are being built to accommodate a larger population . . . where will more water come from to serve those families? When he was our mayor Meng Foon suggested requiring water tanks on properties for new residential construction. The GDC of...
When people of Alex Boyd’s stature speak of energy transition without promoting degrowth, they fail to acknowledge the urgency of the climate crisis. The more we talk about renewables only, the more we covertly support the mindset of continuing...
I suspect that I am not alone in struggling to understand how the new Affordable Water Reforms structure will be composed and how the charges will be billed. Can the council please confirm that our rates will go down? In examining my rates bill I...
Weekend scenes of national protests by nurses would not have been a welcome sight for the Government six months out from an election in which the overall health sector situation is going to be a key attack point for the Opposition. Nurses from...
Connecting mothers who breastfeed their pēpi (baby) with others was a main focus of The Big Latch On event at the HB Williams Memorial Library on Friday. The Big Latch On aims to promote and celebrate breastfeeding, as well as support and connect...
Māori ward councillors of the Gisborne District Council say the Mayor did not have full support from the council when deciding to leave the regional forum Rau Tipu Rau Ora. Rau Tipu Rau Ora (RTRO) was set up in 2020 to lead the development of the...
The emergency services were called to Atkinson Street near the Taruheru Crescent corner in Riverdale last night after a ute rolled. It happened at around 9pm. When police, firefighters and St John officers arrived no one was at the scene. “The...
Nursing is “horrible” and some go home from Gisborne Hospital crying. So say two of the Tairāwhiti nurses who campaigned on Saturday for better conditions, more nurses and better pay to resolve a “nursing crisis”. Nurses met at...
by Phil Pennington, RNZ Gisborne’s main water supply pipe was identified as being at unacceptable risk of catastrophic failure months before Cyclone Gabrielle wrecked it. The cyclone broke the pipe in 10 places, plunging the city’s 39,000 people...
A lot ‘still very much against it’: Tuatara collective A group hoping to establish a controversial barge facility at the northern tip of the East Coast is confident it will get the project across the line in the coming months. But the initiative...