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...
Gisborne Boys’ High School have a big game in them. And tomorrow first 15 rugby will take centre stage at the historic Rectory ground for the second week in a row. A week after hosting Napier Boys’ High in Round 1 of the Super 8 — a 29-5 loss...
Loyal YMP servant Willis Tamatea will achieve a rare milestone when he runs on to the paddock at Te Karaka tomorrow. Tamatea will make his 200th Poverty Bay Premier club rugby appearance in the black and white jersey as his competition-leading team...
The number of logging trucks that rumble along Ormond Road and around the Esplanade has increased so much. The first starts at 4.30am and the last is about 4.30pm. The noise and vibrations are constant. We get woken up every morning. Why can’t...
It was good news this week that teacher unions have suspended industrial action following a meeting with the Education Minister, but I really have been so disappointed to see the present era of teachers striking to get more pay. Sure, times are hard...
I had to continually pinch myself as I sat in the War Memorial Theatre the other night, to be reassured that I was in Gisborne watching an amazing amateur production. The production of Chicago by our Gizzy people could equally take its place on...
High inflation is not only reaching further into our pockets for almost everything we need to buy, the wage inflation it has engendered also has an insidious and perverse impact that is further worsening many family budgets in this cost-of-living...
Six entrepreneurial teams gathered this week, a month after they first got together, to give one-minute updates on their progress. They first met at the fifth edition of the Tairāwhiti Startup Weekend initiative at impact house Taiki e! on April...
Matawai dog triallist Samantha Shaw has qualified two dogs for the finals of the zig-zag hunt at the New Zealand championships at the Warepa Collie Club grounds near Balclutha. She and Rogue yesterday finished in third place in the South Island...
A Muriwai resident tired of having their property ransacked says there needs to be a police officer permanently in the community, and increased funding for infrastructure, to help keep the community safe. Two weeks ago, fences at Tanith Wirihana Te...
Places in Wairoa damaged during Cyclone Gabrielle have been assessed into three risk categories. Next week, the Wairoa District Council and recovery team will engage with property owners directly to share information around which category their...
Eastland Port has handled more than 215,000 tonnes of logs so far in May and the tally should climb by another 60,000 tonnes by the end of the month. A port spokesperson said there have been eight log ships call here so far in May. “There are...
The Sunrise Foundation has appointed Whaimutu Dewes to its board as its newest voluntary trustee. Whaimutu joins an existing board of eight dedicated trustees who provide robust governance, led by Sunrise Chair Rob Dymock. Of Ngati Porou and Ngati...
Worksafe NZ, the Government entity responsible for investigating workplace accidents, says taking a $10,000 grant from a Gisborne community trust with close ties to the city’s port is neither a conflict of interest nor taking money away from local...
An elderly tenant has finally been ousted from a block of pensioner flats in Kaiti, his behaviour apparently so scary and upsetting that other residents were going to their doctors in despair. Despite his age and health issues, the man managed to...
Heritage Tairāwhiti is partnering with East Coast Museum of Technology (ECMOT) for a rare show-and-tell tour on Sunday afternoon. Event co-organiser and Heritage Tairāwhiti committee member Kris Clayton said visitors often idled away hours without...
Scores of upcoming young musicians of Tairāwhiti will perform in this year’s Smokefreerockquest and Smokefree Tangata Beats regional heats at the Lawson Field Theatre this afternoon and evening. The competition, now in its 36th year, is held...
The country’s senior doctors are concerned about Gisborne Hospital being unsafe.
The Reserve Bank expects to keep the Official Cash Rate on hold now at 5.5 percent for a year, confident that inflation is easing back from its peak and on the expectation that a surge in immigration will “ease back towards pre-Covid-19 trend...
Maryanne Spurdle, Maxim Institute researcher A week before Grant Robertson unveiled his hefty election-year Budget, dozens of wealthy Kiwis made a plea for the Government to tax them more. Given the timing, some pundits questioned their motives. I...
Inflation, or “Robflation” as I call it, is quietly eroding New Zealand’s wealth. With a 32-year high inflation rate, our money’s value has shrunk by 7 percent in just one year. The 2023 “no-frills” Budget, which pledged to confront the...
Labour adopting long-standing Green Party policies is a win for Aotearoa. Most policies date back 10-plus years ago, such as warmer Kiwi homes which was campaigned on by Jeanette Fitzsimons in 2009. Despite this Green win, the need for a wealth tax...