Road users have been told to expect delays on SH2 at Otoko tomorrow morning, while tree stumps are removed. The work is part of the clean-up from Cyclone Gabrielle, to further improve the safety of the network north of Gisborne. “Waka Kotahi NZ...
Dave Brash, who led the Government rcovery effort after the Kaikoura earthquake, has been appointed to the panel conducting the ministerial inquiry into land use in Tairāwhiti and Wairoa. He fills the vacancy left when Bill Bayfield resigned, and...
A total of 1002 weaner heifers sold on day two of the weaner cattle fair at the Matawhero saleyards yesterday, plus about 80 older cattle. Prices paid were firmer on those paid at the 2022 fair but not quite as strong as the previous day’s weaner...
by Jocelyn Noveck, AP “You’re not a lot of fun, are you,” notes barbarian Holga (Michelle Rodriguez) to brave fighter Xenk (Regé-Jean Page) in the new Dungeons & Dragons film, making two jokes at once. The first is that Xenk, a paladin...
LightscapeS, a solo exhibition of works by local painter Zoe Alford, opens at Tairāwhiti Museum tomorrow. The collection of new paintings includes images of seascapes, beaches, farmland, a vineyard, Eastland Port, and the old Midway Surf Lifesaving...
Part of Lytton Road will be closed for the best part of a week after contractors were called out to a sewer block on Tuesday night. They discovered the sewer main had collapsed and caused a sink hole at the edge of the Lytton Road – Stout Street...
Get to know Kita Mean, the winner of the first series of RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under, as she performs her show Delightfully Camp! at Lawson Field Theatre next month. Kita Mean has performed all over the world, from her own backyard to the US...
Join Aotearoa’s “finest family band” for an evening of lively entertainment at the War Memorial Theatre next month. The Harmonic Resonators are touring on the big stage in 2023 to promote their second album Rongo Ki Te Oro (Listen to the...
Gisborne actor/director James Packman was so persistent in his quest for rights to stage the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, his name reached composer Andrew Lloyd Webber’s office in London. Packman had made regular inquiries to...
One win from four games is nothing to shout about. Yet the manner in which Gisborne Boys’ High School first 11 beat Rotorua Boys’ High School in the playoff for fifth at the six-team Super 8 secondary schools cricket tournament did them credit...
Patutahi THE late Bryan Johnson would have nodded his head in approval at the performance that won his trophy at the Patutahi Men’s Open on Saturday. Indeed, Patutahi stalwart Johnson would have been impressed with a tournament that embodied...
Lack of equitable resources to clean up beaches, emotional and physical damage caused by forestry slash and impacts of extreme weather events on the people of Tokomaru Bay were shared at a ministerial inquiry into land use community hui yesterday...
More than $1 million from the New Zealand Disaster Fund is being provided to people living in Wairoa to help them to recover from the damage caused by Cyclone Gabrielle. The $1.1 million contribution to the Wairoa District Council-led Liveable Homes...
Artwork made using botanical material from Eastwoodhill Arboretum will be part of an upcoming exhibition by plant enthusiast and artist Felicity Jones and photographer Mark Smith. The pair went to Eastwoodhill to create and photograph artworks which...
Attending a blessing at Waingake Water Treatment Plant after the city’s water supply was restored on Monday are Tāmanuhiri Tutu Poroporo Trust trustee Parekura Brown Jr, Kāhutia Brown, Maraetaha Inc chair Bella Hawkins and Gisborne District...
In the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle, Power Farming Gisborne stepped up to help those in need of urgent animal feed by collecting and distributing donations of hay from farmers and contractors across the North Island. They worked together with Lucy...
Life ain’t a spectator sport . . . just ask Lucy Bond, who fell into a role helping farmers and equestrians access essential feed for their animals. It all started when she looked to put together a group to buy some hay and truck it in after...
Sue Wilson isn’t one to sit on her hands. Despite her own property and surrounding roads and infrastructure being hit in back-to-back weather events, her first thought was for others. She is the administrator for the Wairoa Community Development...
Katrina Duncan loves nothing more than to show off the very best of Tairāwhiti to visitors and locals alike, but for now, she’s part of an army of volunteers trying to restore some sort of semblance of normality to the cyclone-ravaged region...
Sandra Faulkner has clocked up a lot of hours — and kilometres — in the past few weeks. Her truck is her office, initially driving on roads that weren’t exactly fit for purpose as she headed out into the rural community to help, chat, and...
by Dr Andrew Cribb, East Coast Farm Vets With the abundance of feed across the district, it’s easy to forget about trace elements, and copper in particular has been on our radar while pregnancy testing cow’s. A national survey in 2021 showed...
by St John Craner Environmental challenge is a much wider concept when you think about it. The biggest environmental battle you face is the one inside your own head. It's the environment you live in day in, day out. Author Robin Sharma said, “The...
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins would have been the most harassed person in Parliament yesterday as he first watched one Minister trying to explain her comments in the House and then had to fire another who joined the House at the same time as he did...
The New Zealand Defence Force played a crucial role in supporting our rural and isolated communities in Tairāwhiti after Cyclone Gabrielle. They hit the ground running in the immediate aftermath of the cyclone, facilitating the establishment of...
Maxim Institute executive director What does politics produce when mixed with violence and intimidation? Sadly nothing constructive, plus a humungous helping of anger, division, recrimination, spleen and confusion. Oh, and...
Opinions? Have I missed something? I was under the impression that opinions were something everybody was allowed to have, and that everyone else respected our right to have. Sharing these opinions was considered to be a form of debate that gave us...
The people behind Torere Macadamias are so passionate about macadamias they have developed a 10-year NZ Macadamia Industry Growth Strategy (2018-2029) to increase organic growing of macadamias from 10ha in 2018 to 1000ha in 2029. The company is...
Tokomaru Bay farm manager Colin Skudder made the headlines after Cyclone Gabrielle when he cut a track across his farm to ferry nurses, technicians and other hospital workers from Tokomaru Bay to Te Puia Springs Hospital. The hospital was cut off...
by Trevor Brown PRICES were buoyant at yesterday’s Matawhero weaner fair where 2736 steers and bulls went under the hammer, many from the Wairoa and Ruakituri districts. There was a large bench of buyers, most from outside this district, and they...
APPLES from Gisborne have been hitting international markets since February. About 30 percent of the crop has been picked to date, and local industry sources say the quality has been “OK” , despite the weather. T&G Global reported this week...
Strong winds to gale force are forecast to hit the eastern coast of the North Island today and tomorrow, as far north as Mahia. MetService has issued a Watch for severe gale-force south to south-westerlies, with a deepening low lying to the east of...
Lytton High school students helped the Manutuke community carry out a clean-up last week. School learning support teacher John Ingram said that ever since Cyclone Gabrielle hit the region, causing widespread damage, the school wanted to helping...
THE MetService has issued a Wave Warning for the coastline from Mahanga Beach at Mahia up to Potikirua Point at East Cape, with big seas from the south from tonight. The warning is valid from 9pm tonight to 1am on Friday. It involves a southerly...
The trailing suction hopper dredge Albatros has been working out in Turanganui-a-Kiwa/Poverty Bay and around the port since last Saturday. The dredge has been removing the naturally accumulating sediment along the shipping channel, turning basin and...