Beth Chrisp, 85, realised she needed to make a few changes to her lifestyle after she had two falls and hit her head on a concrete edge. Her first fall happened a year ago when she was walking down a ramp in her Manutuke home. Mrs Chrisp fell and...

Kohanga reo of Tairawhiti will celebrate the kaupapa that is te kohanga reo with a mokopuna day at Te Poho o Rawiri Marae tomorrow. The event is being hosted by the Te Whakaruruhau Kohanga Reo of the Tatou Tatou Purapura — one of the clusters...

Amy Spence and her team have organised another fantastic food street festival. On a beautiful evening, and showcasing yet another gem of a location along Reads Quay between Childers Rd and Pitt St, hundreds of happy people soaked up the...

The dropout on the very top of D9 Hill in Tikitiki doesn’t seem to be a serious problem with Downer. There’s no proper signage to indicate that there is a serious drop-out there, and surely there should be flashing lights to worn any night-time...

Gisborne councillors have voted unanimously in favour of establishing Maori wards. There were tears of joy, hugs, and applause from the crowded public gallery after the vote which took place at an extraordinary meeting at the Gisborne District...

Children from around Gisborne were participating in the Turanganui Schools Māori Cultural Festival yesterday. More than 70 schools, kura, kohanga reo and early childhood centres are taking part. The festival is on every day at the Farmers Air Event...

Environmental damage wreaked by ex-tropical Cyclone Hale becoming clear

Instead of gloating over the mortality rates in America and Britain during the current pandemic, why doesn't Gwynne Dyer do some real investigative journalism and examine whether the Chinese virologists in Wuhan deliberately engineered the...

GISBORNE District Council candidate Tina Karaitiana has spent her life giving to her community. The city ward candidate has been involved in everything from the Country Women’s Institute to the War Memorial Trust and numerous economic development...

AT at the Gisborne Herald we believe Gisborne can do better than the one pictured here. See if you can find a bigger feijoa and let us know by email: editorial@gisborneherald. co. nz, or phone us on 06 869 0600. The feijoa competion is on

This is council committee week so there is plenty to read and write about. Community Development has several issues of interest on the agenda, including the planned replacement of the Peel Street toilets, adjacent to the current building, with...

A security guard was injured in Gisborne District Court this week while preventing an unruly defendant escaping from a courtroom. Warwick Ashley Green, 35, jumped over the dock in courtroom two when he realised a presiding JP was about to refuse him...

A full-scale search began at first light this morning for missing Tolaga Bay woman Jamie Kaiwai and police have now received information she was seen on the beach near the wharf on Friday night. The 27-year-old’s car was found with the keys in it...

THERE were excellent conditions yesterday, but no big fish were landed on the first day of the Gisborne Tatapouri Sports Fishing Club Enterprise Cars Motor Group Autosure Bay Bonanza. Club president Roger Faber said 126 boats and 465 anglers took...

A MAN described as “a true stockman to all” was farewelled in a funeral service last Saturday where his many years as a farmer, sawmiller, author and long-time dog trial enthusiast and administrator were remembered. John Tombleson passed away on...

A Gisborne woman who wed after a cancer diagnosis gave birth to her baby today and now must travel to Australia without her newborn for treatment. Charlie Elsmore married her partner Shawn on Saturday, just days after finding out she had late-stage...

I have a message for everyone. Please stop surfing, swimming way off-shore (like some idiot I watched on Thursday afternoon at Wainui Beach), boating, driving around for a nosy and generally behaving as if this is an extension of your holidays. Our...

Former Campion College student Poppy Smith has taken the Catholic school to task because it does not allow same-sex couples to the annual ball if the partner is from another school. The 16-year-old says the school’s protocol is a violation of The...

Ngati Porou Hauora rolls out its vaccination clinics across the East Coast next week. The first is on Monday at the Matakaoa clinic from 9am to 12.30pm, then 2pm to 5.30pm that afternoon.“Getting vaccinated is one of the most important things we...

Gisborne has to be content with the status of beaten finalist in the World Cup Final of New Zealand Cities. The Today FM competition ended this morning with Gisborne recording just 33.7 percent of the vote against Napier. Mayor Rehette Stoltz...

MAORI leaders in Tairawhiti are divided over the effectiveness of the Maori Party as a voice for Maori. One of the earliest trends emerging on election night was the previously unthought of possibility that the Maori Party was facing expulsion from...

A tree removal programme is under way to address high-risk and dangerous trees along rural roadsides, Gisborne District Council says. The trees programmed for removal were selected from five years of data from the council's Request For Service...

The name remains but the competitive element is gone from the Gisborne International Music Competition (GIMC).Instead, in a three-year partnership with Chamber Music New Zealand, the GIMC trust will deliver an annual music-based community engagement...

THE number of log ships scheduled to call at Eastland Port this month continues to stack up as a fifth ship joins the waiting list over the next two weeks. The Xing Ning Hai will call here for logs on May 19. The Yangtze Eternal has been alongside the...

It's no secret that New Zealand has an ageing population. Projections show that in the 20 years between 2016 and 2036 there will be a 77 percent increase of New Zealanders aged over 65, and 132.4 percent increase of New Zealanders aged over 80. Such...

Bullying, long hours, double standards: ex-employees

SURF Life Saving NZ has been advised to approach Eastland Community Trust to replace a $100,000 sponsorship it has lost from the JN Williams Memorial Trust for the Gisborne and East Coast area. The suggestion came after the organisation presented...

A course to improve the teaching and delivery of te reo Maori in schools and Maori language courses will be held in Gisborne over the next two days. Two days of professional learning development is being offered to all Maori medium kaiako and active...

Mokairau Hereford Stud at Whangara enjoyed a complete clearance in their rising two-year-old bull sale on Thursday morning, a sale that produced another lift in average for the stud. The Reeves family put up 32 of their strapping young bulls for sale...

A woman driving a carload of children at more than twice the speed limit and swerving uncontrollably across Centennial Marine Drive was reported to police by members of the public, Gisborne District Court was told. The woman was seen on December 12...