The second of two rocket launches to deploy a constellation of storm- monitoring satellites for NASA launched from Mahia on Saturday. The mission, named Coming To A Storm Near You, was originally scheduled to launch last Monday but was delayed —...
The success of the Tairāwhiti Driver Licensing Trial was celebrated last week. The trial involves a partnership between Tairawhiti REAP (Rural Activities Education Programme) McInnes Driving School and Waka Kotahi. It is an initiative being run by...
The last of a group of men who violently assaulted a bouncer and a patron outside Gisborne’s Smash Palace bar, has pleaded guilty. Kobra Royce Baucke Puhia, 27, had previously pleaded not guilty to to two charges of injuring with intent to cause...
Data about mud volcanoes, which are “almost unique to Gisborne” are likely to be included on LIM (Land Information Memorandum) reports. Gisborne District Council’s Civil Defence Emergency Management Committee has adopted a report noting it is...
Netball Gisborne senior competition, Premier Grade: Claydens Waikohu (1) 63 YMP (2) 44, Whangara Old Girls 66 Farmlands Ngatapa 45, Other grades (* denotes losing bonus point for scoring within three goals) — Premier Reserve/A Grade: Old Girls...
Alexis Copland New international health regulation amendments are being introduced. The proposal will weaken the link between policy and evidence, further normalising the exclusion of qualified critics. Humans get their resilience from the wide...
After two cyclones, 35 years apart, devastated Wairoa, plans are finally being laid to stop the worst from happening again. Floodwaters ripped through Wairoa homes, businesses and farms during Cyclone Bola in 1988, and again three months ago during...
The traffic lights will be working again at the intersection of Peel Street and Gladstone Road from early next week. A temporary roundabout has been at the intersection since February 19, after water made its way into the underground cabling and...
A huge swathe of Gisborne, including the airport, would be inundated by extreme coastal flooding if sea levels rise, new research shows. New maps from NIWA and the Deep South National Science Challenge show areas across New Zealand that could be...
Turanga Health chief executive Reweti Ratu Ropiha received his New Year Honour from Governor General Dame Cindy Kiro at Government House on Thursday. Mr Ropiha (Rongowhakaata, Ngāi Tāmanuhiri) was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit...
Turanga Health’s senior researcher Dr Shirley Keown breathed a sigh of relief then rang her boss when this year’s Budget scrapped the $5 prescription charge for medicines. She knew the fee was damaging the health of vulnerable populations...
The cause of death of two Tairāwhiti residents has been attributed to Covid-19 in latest figures released by the Ministry of Health. The numbers cover the period of the week up to 1pm on Monday, May 22. They take the district’s total Covid-19...
A Gisborne company and a Wairoa business will receive $7.5 million in loans from newly announced government investment of $24 million aimed at boosting regional businesses across the country. Judds Ltd will receive a $4 million loan from the...
In the early hours of February 14, Marc Alexander and his wife Monica woke up in their Makaraka home to find it flooded by Cyclone Gabrielle. “It was two in the morning. We went straight through to our stuff and just started lifting it out of...
More than 20 Gisborne Boys’ High School students used their green thumbs to weed out undesirable overgrowth at Waikanae Stream on Thursday. Assistant head of science Summer Edwards said the weeding session was a collaborative part of the...
Students from Girls’ High and the wider community joined national action yesterday afternoon in a stand against climate change. GGHS prefect Helen Evans said the protest was to raise awareness of the growing concern about climate change. “...
Gisborne District Council has retained a relationship with regional forum Rau Tipu Rau Ora (RTRO) despite removing itself from the group in March. The forum was set up three years ago to lead a regional response to Covid-19, but the council left it...
GISBORNE CLUB DARTS ASSOCIATION INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS 180s: P Stewart (Gunz); C Holmes (RSA1); A Cross (2) (6 Shooters); C Reiri (Rebels); A Charlie (Stallions); O Pohio (2NZ3). Highest start: (160) K Morrell (Roseland). Highest finish: (110) J...
It’s been a busy time on the Indoor Bowls Mats . Dylan Foster won the Friday Night Singles, Defeating his older Brother Matthew in the 3 end final 3-1. 14 bowlers started the competition with 6 qualifying for the 3 end play offs. In the last 6...
GISBORNE Thistle’s latest recruit might never have come to New Zealand if it hadn’t been for Brexit. English midfielder Hugo Elwood, 23, arrived in Gisborne from Australia last week and was expected to make his debut in football’s Central...
Caption Surf Life Saving New Zealand (SLSNZ) has announced the management team for the 2024 Lifesaving World Championships in Australia and two members of them are from Gisborne. Caption The group has been selected for crucial roles in coaching...
It’s no surprise that roading makes up the lion’s share of the $1.168 billion requested from the Government in the Cyclone Recovery Plan released this week by Gisborne District Council — $820 million, or 70 percent of the total. The funding...
Kerry Worsnop It has been more than three months since Cyclone Gabrielle’s destructive rampage. Three months of mucking in, cleaning out, patching up, and reviewing myriad horrible things that have collided with people’s lives, the local economy...
Recently scientists warned our world is likely to breach the 1.5C climate threshold by 2027. The world is almost certain to experience new record temperatures in the next five years, and the global average temperature is likely to rise by more than...
Snap! The same four who ended Electrinet Park’s 11-year Oligoi Jug interclub pennants title drought last year will defend the silverware in the 2023 final tomorrow. Anaru Reedy, Daniel Collier, Tony Akroyd and Pete Stewart will wear the Park (1)...
Gisborne rider Merran Hain is celebrated as a true legend in the equestrian world. Diana Dobson takes a look at some of the secrets of Merran’s success . . . There’s a name that has been a constant in the world of equestrian for more than six...
The region’s Cyclone Recovery Plan was released this week . . . The Herald’s Andrew Ashton delves into the detail of what is being requested for a more-than $1 billion recovery and future resilience effort. Three months on from Cyclone Gabrielle...
Jo Ferris discovers the beauty of KiwiRail’s Coastal Pacific train journey and marvels at Kaikōura’s restoration — by man and Mother Nature. Having completed a roadie from Picton to Kaikōura during the coastal corridor’s massive repair...
If you’re like most busy homeowners, you want your indoor plants to tolerate substandard growing conditions and some neglect now and then. The umbrella plant, also known as schefflera, delivers on this. Umbrella tree (Schefflera actinophylla) is...
Organised seasonally, and with growing guides for each ingredient, Italian-Kiwi Bri DiMattina’s cookbook Nostrana is full of simple, gorgeous and delicious recipes with fresh vegetables and fruits you can easily grow and harvest yourself. This...
The top two men’s teams took centre stage in the hockey round last weekend and tonight it will be the turn of the top two women’s teams in what will be another replay of last year’s grand finals. GMC Green and defending champions YMP A match...
by Sherrill Beale A classic game of two halves between Horouta Koura and Gisborne Girls’ High and another big performance from YMP made for enthralling Premier Grade netball in the YMCA on Wednesday night. Horouta Koura defeated Girls’ High...
Tokararangi versus Ruatoria City at Te Araroa Domain could be a beauty. Tokararangi are second behind Hikurangi three weeks into the H Blackbee Contractors Ngāti Porou East Coast men’s club rugby season. Hikurangi, who have the bye tomorrow, have...
Gisborne Thistle have been without Federation League football for three weeks, but are still in touching distance of the frontrunners. And they have strengthened their squad with the addition of a midfielder who has come through English professional...