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School objects to new bar opening downtown

The owner of a Gisborne bar hoping to set up shop on the main street has been met with strong opposition from a Māori kura kaupapa operating just a few doors down. The tension was palpable at a liquor licensing hearing held at Gisborne District...

Adams hat-trick sets up win

A Josh Adams hat-trick powered Gisborne United Firsts to a 5-2 victory over Wainui Sharks in Eastern League 1 football on Saturday. Adams scored the second, third and fourth goals for Heavy Equipment Services United in a game that was closer than...

Wyllie set to play 50th premier game

Tough customers like Shyann Wyllie are the sabre’s tip in rugby. This Saturday, fearless forward Wyllie, 24, will play his 50th premier game since 2017 in the legendary black and white hoops of East Coast Farm Vets YMP against Kevin Hollis Glass...

Golf roundup

Electrinet Park Foursomes success is no rocket science formula. It won’t work without both players firing — a basic equation proved by Jo Kerr and Lynne Holmberg at the Gisborne Park Ladies 18-hole Open Foursomes tournament yesterday. The...

Local authors celebrate book release

A room full of locals with an interest in literature joined in to celebrate the release of two books: Brothers in Whalesong, authored by Regina de Wolf, and Not Just a Teacher, by Taranga Kent, at Waikanae Surf Club last week. Speaking to the...

Gig Guide

THIS WEEK Free dance St Andrew’s Church Community Centre. Today, 7pm to 8.30pm. A movement and dance meditation practice with a variety of sound and rhythms. $10 entry. No Faith In Fighter Pilots Saturday, April 29, Smash Palace 9pm, Common Threat...

Art on wheels

Art has always been a relevant and unexpected tool in teaching history. Pictographs, photographs and paintings have often been known to communicate information about historical events. Whether it be the prehistoric cave art of Altamira or the Taj...

New collaborative music programme begins soon

Join in for a whole new experience of learning, creating and connecting with music through an exciting music-based programme which arrives in Tairāwhiti this May. The programme is presented in collaboration between Gisborne International Music...

Cyclone Recovery funding recipients

A list of groups to receive Sport Gisborne Tairāwhiti Cyclone Recovery funding printed in a story in The Gisborne Herald on Monday was incomplete. The full list is — Badminton Eastland, Gisborne BMX Club, Comet Swim Club, Enterprise Swim Club...

SH2 repairs to start with Hika straights

Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency is advising motorists to expect 10-to-15-minute delays on State Highway 2 from the next two months as pavement repairs begin on the Waerenga-a-Hika straights. Contractors will use a method called “foamed bitumen...

Business grants less than hoped

Cyclone-hit businesses here have received less than half the amount of damages they wanted because a government compensation scheme was “oversubscribed”. Approved applications for the Government’s business support grants, managed through Trust...

‘Dawn paraders’ shiver as mercury drops to 5

Anzac Day provided the chilliest morning of the year so far, with “dawn paraders” turning out in frosty temperatures. MetService recordings at the airport put the air temperature down to 5 degrees yesterday morning. However, for the first time...

Flare sighting prompts search off Tatapouri

Gisborne's Lion Foundation Coastguard boat and the Trust Tairāwhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter were involved in a sea search on Monday morning after reports of flare sightings offshore of Tatapouri. Maritime NZ’s Rescue Coordination Centre asked...

Not guilty pleas over US tourist’s death

A woman charged with dangerous driving causing the death of an American tourist near Te Karaka last year can now be named. Myrtle Talya Heaven-Leigh Arnie Whatarau-Te Puni, 26, previously had interim name suppression but it expired with her...

Cancer-stricken mum launches petition

A Gisborne woman living with terminal lung cancer is continuing her fight against proposed changes to the country’s medicine legislation one signature at a time. Theresa Zame has set up a petition to amend the Therapeutic Products Bill which is...

Thistle bow out of Chatham Cup

Penalty awarded in the 90th minute sinks Jags’ hopes A 90th-minute penalty ended Gisborne Thistle’s Chatham Cup adventure with a 3-2 loss at McLennan Park, Papakura, yesterday. The match looked headed for extra time when Papakura City mounted...