Labour Party strategists will be feeling chipper this weekend after the 2023 Budget was generally well received, and a political poll out at the start of the week had them back in the box seat — although requiring the support of Te Pāti Māori as...
by Meredith Akuhata-Brown “Leaders of tomorrow, leaders for today” is the theme for this year’s Youth Week which happens to be this week. When I think about youth and leadership, I often consider: who do our youth think...
There was another large number of store lambs at yesterday’s Matawhero sale, comprising 1476 male lambs and 2212 ewe lambs. Prices rose, especially for the larger male lambs. The average price paid rose $10 to $129. There was a very even line-up...
Gold Creek Simmentals at Te Karaka will present 34 of their rising two-year-old bulls for sale on Monday at the property and studmaster Tom Sanson said “they are right where we want them to be.” The stud will also offer 20 straws each from two...
Focus on the Land would like to wish all those Gisborne triallists in action next week in the Tux South Island and New Zealand dog trial championships at Balclutha the best of luck. There will be 10 of them, with a total 15 heading dogs and 18...
Cigar-smoking CEO to his PA: “Miss Smith, buy up the rights to the Bible and get that part changed about the rich man and the eye of the needle” — cartoon in The Spirit Level. The Inland Revenue Department report showing that 311 of New...
Preeti Maheshwari’s visit to Bengaluru is full of thrills and spills. What’s there to see in a city crammed with a mad surge of development, traffic congestion and rising pollution levels? It was a question I had to ask myself as we reached...
Impress friends and family with this fragrant and creamy Thai green chicken curry. While this may not be the most authentic Thai green curry recipe, it is easy and delicious. This curry is very versatile and the ingredients can be altered for those...
Weeds in the garden are common challenges. Even the best landscapers deal with these persistent pests. This guide will help you identify and manage weeds. Dealing with weeds is an important part of caring for your garden. If left unchecked, they can...
Kaea Hills (Ngāti Porou, Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Ngāi Tūhoe, Te Ūpokorehe) is the star of his own documentary following his journey of self-discovery and acceptance. He talked to kaupapa Māori reporter Mātai O’Connor. Kaea Hills was surrounded by...
Raukūmara Pae Maunga restoration project is three years into operation and the 1080 application has started. Kaupapa Maori reporter Matai O’Connor spoke to the team to learn more about what is going on . . . The biggest aerial 1080 operation in...
A replay of the 2022 local men’s hockey grand final is on offer at Harry Barker Reserve tonight. Defending champions YMP A take on fierce rivals Lytton Old Boys Traktion. Their 7.30pm clash on the Hain Farming Turf promises to be one of the...
Gisborne v Napier is a special game. And tomorrow the Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 open their Super 8 campaign at home against their oldest traditional foes on Rectory No. 1 at midday. GBHS head coach Duane Hihi’s team go into tomorrow off...
Ngatapa got a tough welcome to Premier Grade netball against Waikohu this week and tomorrow YMP 2 will step up in their first game against the best team in the competition so far — clubmates YMP 1. Round 2 of the Gisborne Pak’nSave competition...
Mick Locker was Eastern Union’s last line of defence in their historic Central Districts League success in 1967. It was the first time a Gisborne team had competed in an outside league and the title win was a major stepping stone to national...
Rugby on the Coast is in good nick a fortnight in. In Week 2 of the H Blackbee Contractors Ngati Porou East Coast men’s competition, last year’s champions Tihirau Victory Club posted seven tries to one at home in beating Ruatoria City 45-7...
Mike Robinson is a man on the run. He ran to second in the half-marathon at the First Light Marathon in Gisborne in January. He ran to first in the half-marathon at the Tarawera Ultramarathon at Rotorua in February. And last weekend he ran to...
by Kiri Allan MP for East Coast We’ve just released Budget 2023, which sets out more support for today and the next steps in our plan to build for tomorrow. I wanted to make sure that you’d heard about a few key initiatives, including a cost of...
by Marcus Roberts, Maxim Institute director of research “Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain ingenuity to re-rat.” So said Winston Churchill regarding the first 25 years of his political career, which saw him elected as a Conservative MP...
Finance Minister Grant Robertson has described his 2023 Wellbeing Budget as straightforward and practical for less than simple circumstances . . . the National Party has labelled it the Blowout Budget with “nothing for the majority of hard-working...
The New Zealand Institute of Forestry (NZIF) says the Tairāwhiti land use inquiry report is recommending measures that will stop the very activities which are vital for the region’s recovery. NZIF president James Treadwell said the Ministerial...
by Craig Kapitan An Olympic gold medallist accused of making lurid, “sexually aggressive” comments to two young female athletes and exposing himself to a third woman during an overseas competition is seeking a judge’s help in getting re...
The Gisborne District Council has put out an update on the ongoing road recovery around the region, working to repair and reseal Tairāwhiti’s fragile roading network. “An epic achievement last week with the completion of the Te Kowhai causeway...
A digitally monitored waka hoe has given students the chance to learn about science and technology in a different way. Students from Gisborne schools and kura attended the Curious Minds waka ama workshop held on the water and in Lawson Field...
Eastland Port exported 206,000 tonnes of wood across eight ships last month. “May is shaping up to be a good month with seven log ships having already been and gone,” said an Eastland Port spokesperson. The coastal container ship, Rangitata has...
Yet another low that has swung out of the sub-tropics is delivering doses of rain and wind, especially to the northern end of the Gisborne region. From this morning, MetService was expecting 50 to 90 millimetres about the ranges from Tolaga Bay...
The Government is supporting the clean up of slash and debris in Tairāwhiti and Hawke’s Bay with a $10.15 million injection that aims to remove up to 70,000 tonnes of woody debris from river and catchment systems, Forestry Minister Peeni Henare...
Gisborne is leading the nation’s house-building efforts as nearly every other region sees a decline, but the impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle mean the region’s housing situation is still in crisis. New statistics show 32 new dwellings were consented...
For the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic two new solicitors have been admitted in person to the bar in Gisborne. In a sign of things returning to normal, Daniel Cole and Angelina Kosenko were admitted as barristers and solicitors of the High...
Cyclone recovery needs and Maori housing and justice needs are the major winners here in the Government’s Budget announcements. Yesterday’s Budget focuses much on the cost of living and health costs (scrapping the $5 prescription fee) but there...
Retired All Blacks star winger Sir John Kirwan had a chance to express his appreciation of the work of the country’s first responders when he was in town this week. He visited the Eastland Helicopter Rescue Trust (EHRT) hangar — home to the...
"I shot the wrong person! I shot the wrong person!” That’s what a neighbour of murder-accused George Hallet Walker says she heard him saying when he and his partner Mercedies Grace arrived home in Walker’s distinctive grey ute moments after...
Sir John Kirwan says another knighted All Black, Sir Michael Jones, saved his life during an All Blacks tour of Argentina. The story was one of the most attention-grabbing anecdotes the All Black great and mental health advocate told in Gisborne...
Another bout of rain and wind is expected to hit the Gisborne-East Cape region overnight and tomorrow with a subtropical low moving south-east over the North Island. MetService says there is a moderate confidence of warning amounts of rain about the...