Gisborne District Council has confirmed the last emergency sewer valve was closed at 5.30pm on Monday and all sewage discharge into the city rivers has stopped. “For the next five days we advise no swimming, fishing or gathering shellfish in...
A new initiative to help restore, enhance and plant 2.1 million hectares of diverse indigenous forest across New Zealand over the next decade has been announced by Pure Advantage. Called Recloaking Papatūānuku, it is guided by the wisdom of...
The cruise ship Noordam made an impressive sight out on Turanganui-a-Kiwa/Poverty Bay yesterday and the city centre was busy with passengers who came ashore for the afternoon and evening. Noordam became the third cruise ship to visit Gisborne so far...
Getting outside to teach is a vital part of education and the most important thing we can do for humanity and our planet, says outdoor education expert and naturalist Ruud Kleinpaste. Ruud and fellow nature expert John Lawry ran workshops in...
21-year-old battled terrifying five-metre swells and 50-60km/h winds.
Gisborne’s Kaley Knight played her part in Northern Districts’ bounceback win over Wellington Blaze in a Hallyburton Johnstone Shield 50-overs cricket clash on Sunday. Northern won the Round 4 clash by 57 runs just a day after being thrashed by...
Dom Wilson’s nerve at the free-throw line gave the Tigers a one-point victory over the Cheetahs in Gisborne basketball’s Draft League final at the weekend. The Justine Pivac-Solomon-coached Tigers beat Quentin Solomon’s Cheetahs 61-60 at the...
Rising Gisborne darts aces are flying the national flag on the world stage. Six youths from Gisborne Club Darts Association are in Gibraltar representing New Zealand at the Junior Darts Corporation World Championships entering the JDC World Cup Team...
Congratulations to Anne Roberts for featuring in the results every day of the week. Tuesday, November 21 — Sean Shivnan Pharmacy Championship Pairs 10 North/South East/West Diana Styche, Joy Marden 58.04 Bette Parker, Ann McCombe 61.01 Caroline...
In the latest setback in what seems to be an endless winter, the Gisborne and Wairoa districts have yet again been pummelled by more severe weather. We entered the weekend faced once again with what seems like a never-ending series of rain warnings...
Roger Handford So a behind-the-scenes alliance of council, the NZTA and a skateboard group is to take over and “remake” Grey Street. I don’t know about other ratepayers, but I am sick and tired of interest groups and the council creating...
Mātai is shaping the future of medical research and innovation. What an incredibly informative and inspirational symposium they held at the War Memorial Theatre last week, with so many distinguished speakers. Mātai Medical Research Institute has...
Re: “Play Streets”. I’m confused. Are roads/streets for vehicular travel or children’s playgrounds? Are we now teaching our children that it’s a good idea to play on the road? Perhaps Health and Safety might have an opinion about this...
Bob Hughes New Zealand has a new Government with a new leadership team. Sadly, Simon Watts will be Climate Minister outside the Cabinet. Unlike the previous Labour government with the Green Party’s James Shaw as its representative, climate change...
Re: Adversity and recovery themes, November 25 story in Focus on the Land. Page 16 in The Herald on Saturday was such a positive read. I am so negative about our next three years, so this article gave me the warm fuzzies! Congratulations Dr...
The Labour Party lost the election decisively. I want to congratulate the three winning parties and the tobacco industry, and commiserate with the losers: child poverty and climate change advocates and our kids who will once again be denied the...
October brought 50 pēpi/babies into the world in Tairāwhiti at Gisborne Hospital. The busiest day of the month was Thursday, October 12, with 5 bubbas now sharing a birthday. Hauora Tairāwhiti gave a “big thank you to our maternity team and...
Police claim a man given permission to leave his electronically-monitored bail address in Waihi and return to Gisborne for a relative’s birthday, took that opportunity to commit further serious offences here. Raniera Tekooti Reuben, 31, was...
Roading crews will be resurfacing a stretch of State Highway 2 along the Wharerātās south of Gisborne next month. The highway between Maraetaha and Wharekakaho roads will close most nights from December 7-19 to allow crews to safely resurface the...
A drink-driver awaiting sentence after seriously injuring a woman when he ploughed into her house while trying to evade police, has been charged with further drink-driving. Alec Thoreson Thomson, 37, made a brief appearance during a registrar’s...
The need for the Trust Tairāwhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter to upgrade to an Instrument Flight Rules-capable aircraft became even more clear after the team’s work was hampered by a week of low-lying cloud. The upgrade from Visual Flight Rules...
State Highway 2 south of Wairoa opened to one lane yesterday as work continues to clear a slip that was brought down by heavy rain over the weekend. One person died and another was seriously injured after crashing into the slip on Sunday. The deluge...
The Gisborne District Council has again pointed to the need for residents to watch out for land instability, in the wake of the latest heavy rain. “Tairāwhiti is fragile,” the council said at the weekend. “There is risk of land movement as...
Quick action by a resident nipped a potential house fire in the bud on Sunday afternoon at a home in Glenroy Road at Whangara. Fire and Emergency NZ sent crews from Gisborne and Tolaga Bay to the property at 3.35pm. “A small electrical fire had...
More than 180 former workers at the Gisborne Refrigerating Company took a walk down memory lane on Saturday in the freezing workers reunion. “It was a fantastic afternoon at the Cosmopolitan Club,” co-organiser Robbie Blair said, It was the...
The southerly that dumped large quantities of rain on the region at the weekend sparked evacuation alerts at Te Karaka and caused a considerable flow of debris down city rivers which has again covered beaches in wood.
Organisers of today’s freezing workers reunion now expect close to 200 people to attend the first get-together of former Gisborne Refrigerating Company workers since the works closed in late 1994. The reunion starts at 2pm this afternoon in the...
Gisborne District Council voters will have a referendum at the 2025 local body election to decide whether to retain the Maori ward. That is the result of a policy announcement made yesterday by the newly sworn-in coalition Government. The policy...
Yesterday was an exciting day for new East Coast MP Dana Kirkpatrick as the National-led coalition Government was sworn into office. Ms Kirkpatrick is eagerly looking forward to delivering her maiden speech. “I have been thinking about my maiden...
A Tongan national has admitted three historical sex offences, involving a girl under 12 years old. Leimoni Raymond Taofi was helped by a court-appointed interpreter to enter his guilty pleas during a Crown call-over fixture in Gisborne District...
People here have been signing the White Ribbon Pledge to help reduce violence to women. The Violence Free Network yesterday held a signing session ahead of White Ribbon Day (today), encouraging men to sign a pledge committing them to one of eight...
Redundancy letters have been given to more than half of the 80 employees at the Juken mill at Matawhero. In a statement late yesterday afternoon, Juken NZ managing director Hiroyuki Kawado said, it was with regret that the redundancy letters had...
A trial date has been set for a group of men accused of attacking a 61-year-old in his Riverdale home. Mana Wimutu, 27, Iras Tipene-Brown, 22, Mohi Apanui, 23, and Israel Benjamin Peri, 28 , had allegedly been stealing alcohol from shops on...
Gisborne’s horizon just got greener with the launch of Te Ihi o te Rā, for now the largest operational solar farm in New Zealand. Spanning 6.1 hectares and equippped with 8000 bi-facial solar panels, the 5.2-megawatt Te Ihi o te Rā solar farm...