Rocket Lab successfully launched its 35th Electron rocket from Mahia on Friday. The mission deployed two multi-spectral Gen-2 satellites to low Earth orbit for BlackSky through launch services provider Spaceflight Inc. The mission took place just...
DON Pearson’s wairua was “set free” in a moving paddle-out at his beloved Makorori Beach yesterday. Around 100 surfers gathered at northern Makorori the day after the life of the surfing stalwart was celebrated at a funeral service at the...
“IT started off as something small. It turned into something not so small.” That was how Margaret and Kara Hull — the Relay Your Way organisers for Team HULLkfit — described their 24-hour event over the weekend, which peaked at 200...
A Gisborne couple tasked with an eye-watering clean-up following Cyclone Gabrielle feel they were neglected by the district council during and after the event. When the Waipaoa River burst its banks on the night of February 13, Ben and Sarah...
A free parking initiative aimed at encouraging shoppers back into town following Cyclone Gabrielle has had the opposite effect, a group of retailers say. Today marked the end of a two-week district council initiative to support local businesses...
A Gisborne man who found out he wasn’t insured after losing thousands of dollars of personal items during Cyclone Gabrielle is still counting himself as one of the lucky ones. The morning after the cyclone hit Tairāwhiti, Waipaoa resident Peter...
A Tairāwhiti education programme that boasts a one-year waiting list has bad news for schools eagerly awaiting their turn to visit. Wild Lab Tiaki Taiao, operating out of Waikereru Ecosanctuary, has been forced to put its popular programme on hold...
Gisborne District Council will not be following Napier’s example of testing floodwater in high-industry areas for contaminants following Cyclone Gabrielle. Last week Napier District Council revealed it was working with industry to resolve...
A Gisborne environmentalist who has spent 20 years trying to improve the state of a local river says her efforts have been decimated by the impact of Cyclone Gabrielle. But Robyn Wilkie is vowing to continue planting trees on the banks of the...
Gisborne families wanting to bury their loved ones at Taruheru Cemetery are in limbo while the district council monitors issues with groundwater at the site. Nobody has been buried at the cemetery since before Cyclone Gabrielle as groundwater levels...
Exhaustion, frustration and an air of sadness could be felt at a Tolaga Bay/Uawa meeting where members of the community shared emotional accounts of the pain they had endured on the back of recent cyclones. The Government’s panel for an...
ANOTHER “island” title goes on the line at the Awapuni Road track tomorrow night when Gisborne Speedway Club hosts the Autotech North Island TQ Championship. A great 16-strong line-up at the Eastland Group Raceway includes 1NZ Aaron Humble, 2NZ...
SENIOR grade netball starts at Victoria Domain tomorrow without a High School Old Girls team in the premier grade. The four-time premier grade champions have lost players for this season and have not been able to put together a team to contest the...
Thorn Parkes is on the front foot now. Former Poverty Bay men’s senior representative captain and left-handed top-order batsman Parkes, 22, yesterday scored his maiden first-class century. Playing for Otago Volts, Parkes — who will play for...
There was a lot to like about the rugby on offer at the Rectory yesterday. Second-year Gisborne Boys’ High School head coach Duane Hihi’s first 15 lost their second game of the season 29-10 to De La Salle of Auckland yesterday. A hat-trick of...
TAIRĀWHITI continues to have no dedicated government-funded problem gambling service despite proceeds from gaming machines here reaching a record $12.84 million last year. Proceeds from pokies were up $1.48m, or 13.1 percent on the...
TURIHAUA Station’s Paul and Sarah Williams won two of the 12 categories in the East Coast regional Ballance Farm Environment Awards (BFEA) last night. The awards were announced in simultaneous functions in Gisborne and Napier...
The bypass to open up State Highway 35 vehicle access at the Hikuwai No. 1 Bridge site between Tolaga Bay and Tokomaru Bay will be officially opened on Monday. It has been named Pourau Road. Pourau Incorporation owns the land on which Kuru...
Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 players took the Rectory field yesterday in jerseys presented to them in honour of former first 15 assistant coach Les Barbara who passed away this week. Les captained highly successful Boys’ High first 15...
EARTHWORKs on the Tihitihi Pā subdivision start on Monday marking the transformation of Wairoa’s housing stocks. The two-hectare, 38-lot development between Kitchener and McLean streets will provide a range of much-needed new housing. The...
THE Gisborne RSA Anzac Day Speech Competition, which debuted last year, is back again in 2023. The topic this year is, “Chunuk Bair and the Anzacs”. The competition is open to Gisborne students aged from 12 to 15. The winner will deliver their...
BUILDING apprentices will battle it out on Saturday, April 1, in the Gisborne regional final of the New Zealand Certified Builders (NZCB) Apprentice Challenge. The ITM-sponsored competition will require each apprentice to build a fort, the design...
The Farmyard for Early Learners in Valley Road took a direct hit from cyclones Hale and Gabrielle, leaving the rural discovery-based sustainable early learning environment with a massive clean-up. First came Cyclone Hale...
Voters in this week’s web poll strongly believe the three-month emergency shipping route between Gisborne and Napier will develop into a permanent coastal shipping service for Tairawhiti. The question was, “Do you think the three-month emergency...
AN 11-strong Gisborne Trampoline Club team brought back 12 medals from the Icon Trampoline Championships in Auckland last weekend. The team bagged nine gold, one silver and two bronze medals at the event, which was held at the McCown Sports Centre in Mangere.
AN informal Hamilton reunion of 1960s Gisborne Boys’ High School and Poverty Bay cricketers sparked memories 260 kilometres away in Gisborne. Former Gisborne Boys’ High cricketers Pat Malcon, Rob Crawford, John Beuth and...
by Horsey Arnold Hutchins, Pauline Stone and Nanette Treloar were far too good in the centre opening trios. They easily beat David Lynn, Jay Casey and Lois Lamont 13-4 in the nine-end final of the Sutherland Automotive-sponsored event. Hutchins’...
Richard Wells never thought his annual father-daughter roar hunting trip would change his life. The decades-long hunting tradition provides a good excuse for the Wells family to get out of the office and sharpen their hunting skills. Last year’s...
THERE were 3492 sheep sold at Matawhero yesterday, including 3192 store lambs, many of which had been trucked from Wairoa. Prices remained steady for all sheep. Farmers on the Poverty Bay flats are now buying store lambs as processing crops and...
by Clive BibbyOne has to admit that Chris Hipkins is proving to be a dab hand at re-floating the sinking ship — HMNZS Labour Government. In my humble opinion he is justifiably drawing credit for doing things that others had considered too hard or...
Xi Jinping was confirmed in a third five-year term as president of China at the National People’s Congress last week, and not one of the 3000 delegates voted against him. Why would they? Everything is perfect in the People’s Republic of Oz, and...
Wairoa post-settlement governance entity Tātau Tātau o Te Wairoa announced today it will underwrite $2.5 million to enable urgently needed work to continue on hundreds of flood damaged homes in the Wairoa district. Chairman of Tātau Tātau o Te...
I would like to publicly acknowledge the wonderful group of people who came to our aid when my bike and I parted ways on Tuesday, caused by the redundant railway tracks next to the cycleway at the wharf. I wish to sincerely thank the manager of the...