Good on ya Merv Goodley — reliable in your responding, but head counts at meetings don’t make consensus. I can’t remember when Rocket Lab last had a public meeting. With unfettered access and a BAU (business as usual) “nothing to see here”...
Passing through overnight on Thursday, I happened to see the electronic billboard advertisement for Jersey Boys. As a Four Seasons fan I was immediately interested, so I jumped online and grabbed a ticket. My mind was blown by the level of...
Jack Marshall The definition of insanity is said to be repeating the same action and expecting a different outcome. So, when it comes to housing, there’s a solid case for locking up New Zealand for being clinically insane. We build the same...
Waikato-based Gisborne player Kelsey Teneti tasted rugby success straight out of high school after being contracted to the Black Ferns Sevens in 2021. However it not all been plain sailing since then — going from the highs of national selection...
It was pedals of gold for Gisborne BMX rider Asher Nepia-Anderson at the AIMS Games in Tauranga last week. Ilminster Intermediate student Asher was among the more than 11,500 students from over 370 schools who competed in 25 sports during the...
Poverty Bay East Coast representative top 8 team travelled to Wellington to contest Division 2 of a new National Inter-Provincial Championships. Games of fours, singles and pairs were contested throughout the weekend, starting with one session of...
GISBORNE CLUB DARTS ASSOCIATION INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS 180s: H Eyles (4), A Taukamo-Pohio (2NZEF TAO Vikings); L Eyles (RSA Gunz); K Tamihere (RSA Stallions); M Jones (Roseland); S Hohipa (Cossie Done & Dusted); H Pohatu (2NZEF 2NZ3). Highest...
Hearty Ngāti is a term denoting pride, community and a lust for life. And in Game 3 at the YMCA on Monday night, the Gisborne Basketball Association’s flagship ladies’ club Ngāti Porou signed off on round-robin play with a 75-24 win over...
The 2023 round-robin for men’s premier club league basketball is done and dusted and will long be remembered for having gone out with a bang. The biggest bang at the YMCA on Tuesday saw SE Systems topple competition leaders Green Bean 69-67 in...
Black clouds, rain and touches of hail passed over the district late yesterday afternoon, after a 55-day dry spell. Met Service’s forecast was right on-target - "Showers, some heavy, clearing evening. Chance of a squally thunderstorm with hail...
Police are running inquiries into three more gang-related shootings in the city, subsequent to the shots fired at houses in Newton Street in Kaiti and in Mangapapa Road earlier this month. The first drive-by shootings occurred on September 6 and 7...
The final financial damages wrought on Gisborne properties by Cyclone Gabrielle here has been tallied and will cost insurance companies a whopping $86.18 million in payouts. Figures released by the Insurance Council of New Zealand yesterday...
Biosecurity New Zealand has been working closely with cruise lines to ensure their vessels arrive into Eastland Port with clean hulls as the busy summer season approaches. The summer cruise season starts on November 13 here with the arrival of the...
by Neil Reid, Hawke’s Bay Today As builders and family continue to repair Sylvia Bell’s flood-hammered home, the widow has just one wish; to be back in the house she has lived in for the past 50 years by Christmas. Her house was among many badly...
Tāmati Coffey defended his East Coast candidacy after losing three years ago in Waiariki, Jordan Walker said “tax the rich”, Leighton Walker said she was not a politician, knew nothing about politics, but had people in her heart, and Dan...
All the signs point to spring having arrived -—particularly the budding and flowering of the yellow-blossomed kōwhai tree. In Māori, spring is kōanga, and it is of significance that both kōwhai and kōanga share the word kō. Kō is the Māori...
“It’s a blessing.” That’s how Connie Kara of Iaopa Road in Te Karaka feels about having her uninsured home fully renovated, thanks to funding from iwi and government agencies. Ms Kara lives there with 11 others in a home that holds many...
Retirement village residents and their families will have a chance to learn more about proposed changes to how retirement villages are governed. Retirement Village Residents Association president Brian Peat will be speaking on the subject at two...
Students of Rāngai, a Tairāwhiti-based media company and school, are rapt to have secured a commitment to broadcast their very own show, “Pūkeko-Man”, on Whakaata Māori. The show is the brainchild of Rāngai students Te Aruhe Fox, Te Aroh...
Ongoing plant and animal control work at Waingake hangs in the balance as Gisborne District Council waits to hear if government funding will be renewed.
THROUGH struggle can come greatness. That was the message motivational speaker and former boxer David Letele AKA Brown Buttabean shared at Te Karaka Area School yesterday. Mr Letele’s Buttabean Motivation (BBM) charity has been helping with the...
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RNZ’s First Up reporter Leonard Powell went on a road trip from Whakatāne around the East Cape to test the tone of the East Coast’s towns, pre-election. This is the fourth story from that series. The Home Industries section at the A&P...
The Home Industries section at the A&P Spring Show next month has attracted 1100 entries this year and the dog trials 203 as the clock ticks for the closing of entries in several other categories. Show Association general manager Erica McNeil...
A new pump track could be on the cards for Ūawa/Tolaga Bay, dependent on funding and a council lease being finalised. Tairāwhiti Adventure Trust was the driving force behind a new $3 million skate park being opened at Gisborne’s Alfred Cox Park...
After crashing into a lamp post while driving more than four times over the legal alcohol limit, a driver told police, “I was drinking beers”. Koro Kingi had a breath-alcohol reading of 1057 micrograms when he was tested on July 9 this year...
Strong winds are forecast for much of the North Island, but no warnings have been issued for the Gisborne region. However, the daily weather records indicate the district has entered the drying wind season. So far this month Gisborne has had 10 days...
It’s time to tighten up those shoelaces for The Gisborne Herald Fun Run and Quarter Marathon on Sunday. Start time is 9.30am. Online registrations close at midnight tonight, or you can register at Sport Gisborne Tairāwhiti, Level One, 74 Grey...
A High Court judge has voiced her support for “detailed and fulsome” written cultural reports, saying they’re an important part of the sentencing process, “to ensure consistent outcomes”. Justice Christine Grice made the comment while...
A ute left Tucker Road at Makauri on Wednesday night and struck a power transformer pole. The people in the vehicle were lucky to escape injury, firefighters said. The ute ended up on top of the transformer pole and the power lines came down around...
Wednesday was a hectic day for helicopter rescues in the region with the Trust Tairāwhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter backed up by aircraft from outside the district. The day started early for the local team with a 3am call-out to a medical event in...
Rangatahi of Tāiki e Next Gen have created a fun and different way of learning te reo Māori — a new game called Hēnga. It’s Jenga with a twist. The giant blocks have different questions around te reo Māori me ōna tikanga (the Māori...
Coxco staff rolled up their sleeves and got stuck into some beach clean-up work on the city beachfront yesterday as an opportunity to give back to the Tūranganui-a-Kiwa community. The company had 25 staff, including 10 from Wairoa who travel to...
Strikes by senior doctors and dentists who work at public hospitals, as the election approaches, are an embarrassment for the Government but also underline serious flaws in the country’s medical system. The senior doctors point to some desperate...