Gisborne film lovers are in for a treat this month when the New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF) makes a welcome return to our beloved Odeon Theatre. Gisborne audiences will get a reduced programme, but one that is jam-packed with...
It is no surprise that National Party leader Christopher Luxon doesn’t want to talk about Winston Peters. Most recent political polls have delivered numbers that have National able to form a coalition government with Act, but only just. At the...
Maryanne Spurdle, Maxim Institute researcher Education is firmly on political parties’ radars this election. As the ink dries on the Government’s pay agreements with teachers, the Māori Party is campaigning for every school to have at least one...
Central Federation League, SATURDAY, 12.30pm: Childers Rd Reserve 1 (CRR), ALH Limited Gisborne Thistle v Watson Integrity PN Marist FC. Eastern League 1, SATURDAY, 2.30pm: Nelson Park 1 (NP), Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United 1st’s v 1st...
Eastern League football is rushing towards its conclusion, with two of the three titles already decided. Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United Firsts have won the men’s first division in emphatic fashion, a 10-2 demolition of Coates Associates...
Te Keepa Pokiha-Wanoa is representing the East Coast on the New Zealand Rugby Rangatahi Advisory Group. The group met for the first time in Auckland recently. Members of the 10-strong RAG travelled from all parts of the country for the day event...
The Gisborne Pak’nSave senior netball season culminates this Saturday with finals across all grades to decide the 2023 champions. Whangara Old Girls and Claydens Waikohu (1) fought it out last night in the YMCA to decide who will join Turanga FM...
FLY FISHING by Mead Norton, Local Focus — When it comes to fly fishing, Gisborne man Cory Scott is in a league of his own.
Firefighters were called to the carpark at Holy Trinity Church mid-morning n Tuesday after a car went out of control and collided with the side of the church hall. FENZ sent a crew to the scene at around 10am. “The elderly woman driving the car...
Police have been conducting a training exercise at the War Memorial Theatre in Gisborne since early this morning. The exercise began at around 7am today and was to continue until 5pm. “It involves members of the Armed Offenders Squad training in...
The trailing suction hopper dredge Albatros will be visiting Eastland Port later this month. Due to arrive on August 28 and depart on September 7, the dredge will work to clear the naturally accumulating sediments along the shipping channel, turning...
Firefighters were called to Awapuni Road near the Pacific Street corner late on Sunday night after a stolen car was set alight. The call to the burning vehicle came into Fire and Emergency NZ at around 11pm that night. “It was fully involved when...
The Crown is furthering its efforts to have a Gisborne man extradited to Australia to face an assault charge that dates back to 2014. In June this year, the man successfully appealed to the High Court to quash an earlier district court decision...
Only five schools across the country were chosen to win a TREEmendous Education Programme for 2023, and Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Mangatuna, East Coast is one of the five. The school’s winning ticket was establishing Whenua Wenerei or Landmarks...
The Rapid Relief Team, operated globally by the Brethren Church, have a “Farmers Community Connect” planned for Gisborne on September 1. They aim to bring 300 Tairāwhiti farmers together for the event. “The farming industry are doing it tough...
Matapuna Trust’s special interest fund set up this year with the Sunrise Foundation is expected to benefit their students for years to come. The fund is the 50th to be seeded with Sunrise. The education centre’s trust board could see that...
House prices here are still falling but realtors say “green shoots” and encouraging signs are starting to emerge. Latest sales data provided by the Real Estate Institute (REINZ) for last month show the median price in Gisborne decreased by 8.6...
The tight-knit Tiniroto community has shown its support for tamariki at a heart-warming Whānau Āwhina Plunket event. Despite the area still being severely impacted by Cyclone Gabrielle, local whānau gathered at the Tiniroto Community Hall this...
September is World Alzheimers month but for Alzheimers Gisborne Tairawhiti it is not quite the glitzy, high profile month they were hoping for. Alzheimers Gisborne Tairawhiti has had to cancel its proposed major fundraiser on September 2, due to...
Every week, 42.8 percent of what Gisborne households throw away in their kerbside rubbish is food waste, a new survey shows. “That adds up to a whopping 37.4 tonnes every week of uneaten food that we then pay to truck out of town to a landfill,”...
The front doors of the Kwangchow Takeaway shop in Wainui Road were demolished on Tuesday afternoon when a car went out of control and smashed into the store. It happened at around 3pm, much to the shock of takeaway shop proprietors Sam and Jaia Su...
I write in support of the high need for an indoor sports event centre. Tairāwhiti is recognised across the nation within many sporting codes, yet at this time our region does not have many, if any, indoor facilities to cater for our sports. Our...
All mandates to fight Covid have been removed — apparently anything goes when it comes to trying to hold on to the treasury benches following the election. From now on those who test positive will not be required to isolate, and people visiting...
Long Tan Day or NZ Vietnam Veterans Day this year falls on Friday, August 18 and marks 57 years since that historic battle. D Company 6 Royal Australian Regiment contacted and fought off a large enemy force in a rubber plantation near Nui Day, with...
by Gavin Maclean On Tuesday night last week the hall at St Andrew’s Church was crowded for an address by scientist Mike Joy, on degrowth and climate change. Clear, factual and consistent, it was a marked contrast to the muddled and contradictory...
Mask wearing and isolating when sick to help stop the spread of illnesses and thereby protect others, especially the vulnerable, are two of the enduring health lessons we should take from the unwanted infectious diseases education and challenges of...
Former Gisborne Boys’ High School student Matthew Ney has continued to show he has what it takes to compete with the world’s best cyclists. Ney represented Canada in two races at the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships in Glasgow last week with...
Whangara Old Girls or Waikohu? The answer to that question will be found tonight when these sides meet in a Gisborne Pak’nSave Premier Grade semifinal at the YMCA. The winners of the 7.30pm clash will go on to face Turanga FM YMP (1) in the grand...
Tūranga Tuatara finished their season with a 26-13 win over King Country Development in the curtain-raiser to Poverty Bay’s Heartland Championship opener at the Oval on Saturday. Andrew Tauatevalu, at centre for Tuatara, scored two tries as the...
Waituhi into Prem 1 men’s final, another GMC-YMP women’s title decider
Rocket Lab’s Māhia space port will be the launchpad for a new polar ice cap research project. The United States-based company yesterday signed a double-launch deal with Nasa to deliver the agency’s climate change research-focused mission...
Tribunal told clean-up of property took 30 hours and cost $1800. Tenants at a Lyndhurst Street property left owing rent and their landlord saddled with the task of cleaning up a huge mess, including bottles of urine left by someone who had been...
The fundraising efforts of more than 240 people who took part in the Taupo Half Marathon earlier this month raised around $8500 for the local Hear4U organisation. They joined more than 2000 competitors for the annual event, which includes...
A group of mystery benefactors have stepped forward to seed the Stella Maris Catholic Early Childhood Centre Endowment Fund with The Sunrise Foundation. The new fund has been established to support those children in greatest need from families who...