A desire to always be in the forest has subtly inspired Renee Raroa’s mahi. After making headlines for speaking at the United Nations, she caught up with kaupapa Māori reporter Matai O’Connor. I was blessed to grow up in a place where the hills...
A former Gisborne family is setting sail on a two-year odyssey to bring medical help to poor regions of Africa. Fred and Maria Kuo told the Herald why they were embarking on their mission of mercy. Relocating their family of five to volunteer on...
Seven reserves around the region remain closed following the damage caused by Cyclone Gabrielle in February. Gisborne District Council has confirmed Doneraille Park, De Costa Park, the small reserve at the junction of Fitzherbert Street and Clifford...
Reporting their stepfather’s sexual offending against them cost four sisters their mother but even so, the girl who first spoke up says she has “absolutely no regrets” about doing so as it gave her sisters the strength to come forward too. On...
Gisborne and Wairoa businesses have been given a helping hand as they continue to work through the impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle. Business Mentors New Zealand is supporting the ongoing recovery of those affected, with $20,000 worth of mentor...
A woman says a previous sentence of home detention didn’t stop her peddling drugs, but a recent stint on remand in jail was the “big wake-up call” she needed. Standing in the dock of Gisborne District Court yesterday, Darling-Delicia Kaui, 45...
Forestry here has “lost its social licence” due to poor practices faciliated by Gisborne District Council’s “capitulation to the permissiveness of the regulatory regime”. Those are two main findings released yesterday by the Panel for the...
It’s yet another blow to our society and the commercial fabric of Tairawhiti. I write to express my sympathy, empathy, gratitude and moral support to the owners of both Gisborne Herald and Evans Meats. As a dedicated loyal customer and follower of...
When will we learn that when we create electronic equipment that needs metals such as lithium etc, there is a fine art to this creation? It seems that above ground we are running out of these metals. It is disappointing to find that Parliamentarians...
Re: “Didn’t feel heard”, GH 10 May 2023. I know what it feels like “not to be heard” because when Sir Robert’s messenger approached this Minister for veteran support in 2021 he was told: “I don’t work 24 hours a day bro, make an...
Oh, how I do love the extravagant, hyperbolic claims of some of our perennial writers to the editor! “Our economy is in ruins . . .” and “. . . thanks to our luckless attempts to save ourselves from a common cold” — the last comment...
by Clive Bibby This column will be seen by some as premature because it is written prior to the reporting of the Hekia Parata-led inquiry into land use on the East Coast. My response to that is — it needs to be! Because the alternative would most...
After a string of political polls showing a finely balanced electorate tilting back towards Labour since Chris Hipkins took over as leader and Prime Minister, National and the Act Party will take heart from the latest Taxpayers’ Union-Curia poll...
Makauri School Room 4 and 5 students have made their school a little wealthier and helped people take note of the city’s water crisis after their song won Gisborne District Council’s Wero Tiaki Wai — Embrace the Challenge conserve water...
by Sherrill Beale Premier sides Gisborne Girls’ High Senior A and Horouta Koura hit the court running with emphatic wins in the first of the Challenge round games on Wednesday night. Girls’ High outgunned YMP (2) 59-22 and Horouta eased past...
The cream has risen. Rounds 5 and 6 of the Oligoi Jug men’s interclub pennants were expected to be Moving Day for those hunting semifinal berths in the matchplay series. And move they did. Patutahi (1), as they have done since Round 1, virtually...
by Scraggy GMC Green know their A’s from their B’s but there could be the odd double take in their Poverty Bay women’s club hockey game tomorrow night. The Green Machine will be out to keep their unbeaten run intact when they face YMP B at 6pm...
Gisborne primary football First Kicks 4v4, Watson Park, 8.30am: 1, Awapuni Green v Mangatuna; 2, Kaiti Paoa v Wainui Mussels; 3, Kaiti Horouta v Wainui Kina; 4, Mangapapa Storm v Wainui Paua; 5, Mangapapa Mist v Wainui Crays; 6, Mangapapa Floods v...
‘We know what we are in for’ Families, friends and fierce competitors will make it a big day out up State Highway 35 tomorrow. The H Blackbee Contractors Ngāti Porou East Coast men’s and Enterprise Cars NPEC women’s club rugby competitions...
by Ginny Sherriff Former New Zealand international lawn bowler David File picked up his 84th centre title when he won the centre men’s singles at Gisborne Bowling Club. Te Karaka club champion File beat Gisborne club champion Malcolm Trowel 21-18...
Thistle Firsts copped the backlash of Wainui Sharks’ loss to clubmates Demons the previous week. Sunshine Brewing Wainui Sharks beat Property Brokers Gisborne Thistle Firsts 6-2 in an Eastern League 1 football match at Childers Road Reserve on...
If there was ever a time Heartland Championship hopefuls want to impress Poverty Bay selectors, tomorrow is it. The annual Town v Country match returns to the Poverty Bay Rugby Football Union calendar after last being held in 2020. Ngatapa’s...
Gisborne’s place as a major Chardonnay producer will be celebrated on International Chardonnay Day. This year the annual Chardonnay Affair takes place at The Vines at Matawhero midday to 5pm on May 27, rather than over Labour Day weekend. “It is...
New research has found New Zealand’s policy of allowing fossil-fuel emitters to offset all their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by planting trees is at odds with the rest of the world, and it is having a damaging impact on the agricultural sector...
Confirmed temporary location of kura a factor in decision A Gisborne bar has been granted permission to set up shop just a few doors down from a kaupapa Māori school, despite strong opposition at a recent hearing. Anjuna Beer Garden will open on...
The dogs responsible for mauling sheep earlier this week have been destroyed. Gisborne District Council animal control team leader Ross Hannam said a number of sheep were injured or killed after being attacked by dogs on a farm around Kaiti this...
Three months after Cyclone Gabrielle, State Highway 2 will finally reopen between Napier and Wairoa this Sunday. The drive, which usually takes around 90 minutes, has been taking over six hours thanks to the lengthy detours currently in place...
Turanga Health continues to receive recognition for its Covid-19 response by being included in two prominent nationwide studies. The health provider was innovative and agile during the first two years of its Covid-19 response, creating...
Warm for this time of year? You betcha! And by an average of more than five degrees so far this month. Normally people are throwing something extra on the bed as May nights cool down, but for the first nine nights of this month, night-time...
Laughter, joy and the sound of bouncing basketballs reverberated off the playground of Whatatutu School yesterday. New Zealand Breakers captain Tom Abercrombie was a popular man as he took about 40 students through drills, games and match skills...
Breast scans at Gisborne Hospital are now more accurate and comfortable. A new ultrasound tomography machine arrived from Sweden last month that is able to detect even the slightest abnormality in the breast. The technology reduces the need for...
Teachers at the region’s secondary and area schools were on strike yesterday (Thursday), as they continue to press for better pay. Post Primary Teachers Association members have been taking part in national rolling strikes over the past week with...
Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon is calling for a more targeted approach to healthcare funding to address poor outcomes for Māori living in Tairāwhiti. The Health Select Committee recently released its 2021/22 review of Te Whatu Ora’s...
Los Angeles — When Peter “Star-Lord” Quill, while inspecting a murky extraterrestrial region, pressed play on Redbone’s Come and Get Your Love in the first Guardians of the Galaxy, it would have been hard to imagine that James Gunn’s space...