Winston Peters appears to be using his leverage in coalition talks to maximum effect, although the proof of that will be in the details of the agreement eventually reached between his New Zealand First party, Act and National. Talks that have been...
by Natasha Baulis, Maxim Institute researcher What do the Bird of the Year Awards and the Bletchley AI (artificial intelligence) Summit have in common? More than you might think. Both kicked off earlier this month, and both made it into the global...
Re: Look at the mess they’ve left, November 11 letter. Iain says socialism is essentially the art of squandering other people’s money, and that the outgoing Labour govt embraced socialism to a large degree. The first sentence is wrong, and the...
Re: the CBD comments in The Gisborne Herald. Yes, it does need a spark up and it would put locals in a more positive mind. We are not on our own — parts of Queenstown are also looking a a bit tatty! May I add also, a lot of private homes need...
The Trust Tairāwhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter team have a new crew member and the arrival of crewman Caz Cundall-Curry takes the service a step closer to having its much-anticipated full team of 12. Caz has been a lifeguard, a gym instructor and...
Motors, engines, automobiles and aviation all collide at the weekend, with the Big Show at the Tairāwhiti Aviation Museum. Held on Saturday and Sunday, the event is a fundraiser for the Cancer Society and the Trust Tairāwhiti Rescue Helicopter. On...
Quick reactions from people from neighbouring properties made the difference on Tuesday morning when a fire started in a loft above the double garage of a home in Lloyd George Road at Wainui. Fire and Emergency New Zealand sent two appliances and...
The Gisborne Harrier Club is holding the Gizzy Laser Half Marathon for the second year, on Sunday November 19, with all proceeds going to the Gisborne East Coast Cancer Society. The event is sponsored again by Gisborne Laser Plumbing and Electrical...
Some of the best scientific minds from New Zealand and overseas will be in Gisborne next week to take part in a two-day symposium hosted by Mātai Medical Research Institute. “The goal is to share knowledge to accelerate innovations that improve...
Tourism in Tairāwhiti will benefit if Gisborne District Council supports funding applications for a new public pump station which has had a resource consent since 2019. That was the key point Darryl Keast made in a public submission to the...
Gisborne District Council wants to give three million “thank yous” to New Zealand, after more than that amount was raised for the community following two cyclones in six weeks. The devastating start to 2023 for Tairāwhiti is still being felt by...
A body has been located north of the Mōhaka River mouth in Tairāwhiti, police say. A statement said the body was recovered on Tuesday. “Formal identification is yet to take place, which may take several days. “The death is not being treated as...
Gisborne councillors have spoken positively about a new project aiming to bring a plethora of local sports under one roof. The Victoria Sport and Recreation Hub plans to combine netball, basketball, tennis, pickleball and squash under one banner...
Dot McCulloch is this year’s recipient of the Tairāwhiti Community Voice’s Nan Evans Award for “strength of spirit and dedicated work for your community”. The Brain Injury Association Gisborne nominated Dot McCulloch for her service to Care...
Valuations will be used by Gisborne District Council for rating purposes from July 1, 2024.
DOME CINEMA Róise & Frank Irish comedy-drama film written and directed by Rachael Moriarty and Peter Murphy. A widow who has given up on life becomes convinced that a stray dog is the reincarnation of her hurling-loving husband. In Irish with...
MOTORSPORT Gisborne youth ministock speedway racer Corbyn Wilson demonstrated his versatility and burgeoning skill when he won a major drifting event in Auckland at the weekend. The 15-year-old won the first round of the MSC Drifting Challenge at...
Nobody has pushed them yet. The Dave Castle-led Bollywood High School Old Boys’ last campaign netted year all three Premier Grade trophies in a perfect season and they are on track to retain the 40-over Doleman Cup, having beaten Gisborne Boys’...
Draw for Tairāwhiti senior and junior softball, all games at Waikirikiri Park on Saturday — Senior division, 12.30pm: D2, Moana Toa v Expendables; D3, Maori Smurfs v More or Less. Emerging Sox Intermediate Softball (Years 7 and 8), 11am: D1...
ARMWRESTLING A growing number of Tairawhiti competitors are emerging as forces in the sport of armwrestling. Father and son Nukumai and Malachi Jansen, Neil McMillan and dual masters world champion John Leach brought medals home from the National...
Fresh from selling Eastland Network on March 31, 2023 for $260 million — receiving net proceeds of $257.7m, $90m of which went to owner Trust Tairawhiti and the rest to reducing bank debt — Eastland Group has raised more than $250m selling a 50...
Roger Handford Ask not what your beach can do for you — ask what you can do for your beach. I am astonished our council sees fit to waste so much time and our money trying to figure out what to do about wood on the beaches. “We will fight them...
Barbara Lewis’s address to the NZNO public meeting was a courageous and excellent summary of the situation in many homes and rest homes in our country. I thank her for her passion, honesty and call-out to those who may look at the end of life as...
Space company Rocket Lab will continue tests to create a totally reusable rocket next year, with nine reusable missions planned for 2024. Speaking to the Nasa Spaceflight (NSF) live podcast on X yesterday, Rocket Lab founder and chief executive...
by Ric Stevens, Open Justice A council manager who complained a junior female colleague was “demeaning” him when she requested that he fill out a tax form went on to hold on to his employers’ confidential documents after he was sacked...
Passengers on the National Geographic Orion, the first cruise ship of the season to visit Gisborne on Monday, got up close and personal with farming life in New Zealand when they visited Maclaurin Farm at Hexton. More than 60 visitors, mainly from...
New Gisborne Volunteer Centre manager Ruby Walker brings to the job a background in business but with a strong affiliation to the not-for-profit sector. She started at the centre in September as volunteer service coordinator but with the retirement...
Last week’s heavy rainfall caused significant damage in the Whakaki, Nuhaka and Mahia areas, with 19 properties sustaining damage and receiving Rapid Building Assessment placards, Wairoa District Council says. At Mahia, a permanent home and...
An outbreak of the potentially fatal disease typhoid has ended with no further cases expected, Te Whatu Ora - Health NZ says. The outbreak among a team of overseas workers in Tairawhiti in September, ended with eight confirmed and three probable...
Karen Bruce was lost for words when she spotted a handbag on hit UK television show The Repair Shop exactly like one her mother had owned. The unique tooled Egyptian leather handbag was sent to her mother Jean in 1941 by her father, Wint Hopkinson...
Students at Te Hapara School were paying it forward on World Kindness Day yesterday. Principal Linda Savage said they marked the day by sending cards to retirement village residents and writing “thank you” letters to SPCA and Te Puku Or...
Nearly 90 groups scheduled to perform over the five-day festival.
Gisborne’s network of public toilets is at a “critical juncture” according to a Gisborne District Council report which has identified nearly half are overdue for renewal. The council is now developing a special plan to address issues plaguing...
An antagonistic relationship between siblings, threats by phone and text, and a man with a dubious past who slept right through a fatal house fire as it raged only 20 metres from his bed. Those were some of the key pieces of evidence heard by a jury...