Being part of the mahi (work) in the natural environment (taiao) shows young tauira (students) the job possibilities they could be involved in. Te Ngahuru Tikotikoiere team from Rongowhakaata Iwi Trust took a class from Te Kura o Manutuke to one of...
Turanga Health kaimahi (staff) will host another vaccination drive-through service at Te Wai-o-Hiharore (the railway station) on Sunday. Vaccinations will be provided to the public in the comfort of their own waka amid a friendly atmosphere with...
Gisborne residents are invited to a free sausage sizzle and information event on Sunday, to prepare for Conservation Week, which runs from Monday August 14 to Sunday August 20. Conservation groups from across the region will set up a “tent city”...
A home alongside State Highway 35 north of Te Araroa was destroyed in a blaze in the early hours of Wednesday morning. The cause remains under investigation. Fire and Emergency New Zealand received the first 111 call about the fire in the unoccupied...
Rural Women New Zealand (RWNZ) national board chair Sandra Matthews gathered a team of volunteers in Tairāwhiti last weekend to pack 287 support bags for distribution to farming families. RWNZ members from all over the country have donated...
Clients using Gisborne’s Sunshine Service are greeted by some new faces on a Friday once a month, the result of an initiative to increase the service’s volunteer base. The faces belong to members of Eastland Port’s senior management team, who...
The call for an indoor sports centre in Turanganui-a-Kiwa/Gisborne is intensifying as several sports experiencing significant growth feel acutely the impact of a lack of facilities. Sport Gisborne Tairawhiti chief executive Stefan Pishief says the...
Saturday morning is expected to be frosty. And from 2.30pm an overcast sky and a nor’ westerly breeze will greet Enterprise Cars Ngati Porou East Coast and their Round 1 Heartland Championship opponents Wairarapa Bush. Dealing with the Reece...
YMP (1) are a win away from retaining the Premier Grade crown but only after squeezing past a committed Whangara Old Girls (1) in the 1 v 2 semifinal at the YMCA on Wednesday night. The defending champions won 48-45 in a semi that went down to the...
Gold Coast-based Gisborne lifeguard Cory Taylor will captain the New Zealand Black Fins team at the International Surf Rescue Challenge (ISRC) in Texas next month. Taylor has been in the team since 2009 and this will be his second time as captain...
Poverty Bay’s 2023 mission to climb back up the Heartland Championship ranks begins at home tomorrow against Buller. High School Old Boys is hosting the Round 1 game at the Oval, kicking off at 2.30pm. Civil Project Solutions Poverty Bay Wekas’...
The true rugged nature of ladies’ club basketball roared forth on Monday. Gisborne Girls’ High School won their clash with In Living Colour 48-40 in Game 3 of Week 2 — a celebration of speed, daring and stamina. Girls’ High’s first-year...
Out at Wainui, they like their football to be of the champagne variety — full of bubbles and life. Clubmates 1st Class Decorators Wainui Salty Dogs and Coates Associates Wainui Demons turned on a seven-goal spectacular at Wainui in Eastern League...
Mangapapa School’s Reef Mullooly tries his best to get through two Te Wharau School defenders during the Trish Hina Interschool Rugby League Tournament at Waikirikiri Park yesterday. The focus of the tournament was on participation and...
POVERTY BAY Richard Foon carded one of the men’s rounds of the year net-wise on Saturday but it bears a possibly concerning resemblance to his performance almost a year ago. Foon fired 77-13-64 off the blue tees to take an iron grip on Division 2...
The Sky Blues got back on the horse. Having lost a historic clash with Central Hawke’s Bay 18-17 at Otane Domain the previous weekend, Enterprise Cars Ngati Porou East Coast Kaupoi (Cowboys) made a gorgeous Saturday one to savour with 400 in...
A pink-themed top-of-the-table men’s football game has raised thousands of dollars for the Breast Cancer Foundation. The total was boosted by a flurry of donations after High School Old Boys player and co-coach Matthew McFatter put his hair on the...
Contractors repairing the collapsed sewer main in Ormond Road at the junction with Lytton Road,yesterday. Gisborne District Council staff have been working alongside hospital staff to ensure minimum disruption while the sewer pipe is fixed. This is...
Tairawhiti-raised Hurricanes lock Isaia Walker-Leawere has served a one-month ban from all sport after testing positive for cannabis use. Walker-Leawere tested positive after the Hurricanes played the Fijian Drua in Suva in May and served his ban...
The Sunrise Foundation welcomed new trustees Mike Torrie, BDO managing partner, and Leslynne Jackson, Manaaki Tairāwhiti project manager, to their board of trustees at the recent AGM. “Mike and Leslynne’s respective roles and experience in the...
The Serious Fraud Office with neither confirm nor deny if it is investigating cases of fraud here around misuses of the Government’s recent cyclone recovery business grants. Earlier this week, the SFO issued a new strategic focus, listing...
Tairāwhiti has 153 cases of Covid-19, according to the latest figures released by Te Whatu Ora. Total Tairāwhiti cases “recoded” since the Covid epidemic began in 2020 number 24,820 and include 35 deaths. All Te Whatu Ora data on Covid relates...
Gisborne District Council is to suspend its programme to strengthen existing bridges during the current financial year because staff have been reprioritised to focus on storm recovery work. The $650,000 annual programme was implemented to enable 50...
New research shows the scale and pace of sheep and beef land purchased for forestry is even higher than first thought. An updated Orme & Associates report on land-use change from pastoral farming to large-scale forestry shows the amount of land...
Workplace challenges remain the most common reason for women to never breastfeed or to stop breastfeeding earlier than recommended. That is the key issue behind the theme for World Breastfeeding Week 2023 — Enabling breastfeeding: making...
A council decision to approve a lease in principle on culturally significant land in Tokomaru Bay was made without a full swathe of information available to councillors, a report has revealed. Last September, Gisborne District Council’s operations...
More than 100 people picked up 1.3 tonnes of rubbish from the sand dunes and beach along the Mad Mile on Sunday morning. The community clean-up along Centennial Marine Drive was organised by Waste Management and Gisborne District Council. Waste...
The new Wharf 7 development at Eastland Port has been used for the first time with the docking of the coastal container ship Rangitata. She has been discharging a load of 2000 tonnes of fertiliser for Ravensdown. The Rangitata, first ship to dock...
Police have recovered firearms, ammunition and molotov cocktails from the Totara Street house that was shot at on Saturday night and a gang member from that address has been arrested. A woman was alone in the house with her five daughters at around...
Young artist Te Waiotu Fairlie is still on cloud nine after an incredible experience working with renowned artist Mr G (Graham Hoete) on a mural project for the FIFA World Cup in Wellington. She was chosen to help Mr G paint a large mural of...
Gisborne-based BrazilBeat will be bringing their signature sound to the winter rave party Ice Block at Smash Palace on Saturday. Describing their music as Global Bass, it’s a musical style and culture that combines dancehall, dubstep, cumbi...
When Lawrence Mulligan watched the play Michael James Manaia being performed at Lawson Field Theatre as a 15-year-old schoolboy he wouldn’t in his wildest dreams have imagined that more than 30 years later he would be taking on the role himself...
Gisborne Ballet Group will be holding its annual dance competitions this weekend where dancers compete in a variety of styles including ballet, tap and modern. New this year is a memorial scholarship and trophy in the name of Gill Clout who passed...
■ Friday Night Karaoke Breakers Jandal Bar, from 8pm. ■ Manphibian Smash Palace, Friday, 8pm. Classic Rock gurus Manphibian appear at Smash Palace with their inimitable take on the good stuff from the 70s. Door sales $10. ■ Ice Block Smash...