Netball season about to get under way

The United States' oldest city never forgets its past. Boston proudly wears its history on its sleeve. Just look at its trademark brownstone architecture as you walk along its cobblestoned streets. In the downtown and waterfront, old mingles with...

■Smash Palace, Friday March 17, 7.30pm. A celebration of women in music. Well Wahine, free entry.■Smash Palace, rock with Wairoa band Dakilulu. Saturday, March 18, 9pm, $10 door charge.■RSA, Saturday 7pm to 11pm, dress as your favourite...

Four teams have to be at their best tomorrow. Ollie Needham, Craig Christophers, Mel Knight and Ryan West have led their teams to Poverty Bay Cricket Association's Senior B semifinals at the Harry Barker Reserve. A place in next week's final is their...

New Zealand singer and songwriter Mitch James is ready to set the stage on fire at the War Memorial Theatre, as he reaches Gisborne shores in July. His visit is part of his first ever global tour including a whopping 13-date tour throughout New...

The call has gone out to foundation students of Lytton High School. The students of 1961, when Lytton High first opened, are invited to a reunion in April. The school only had third form students when it opened its doors in October 1961 under...

East Cape Road at the Awatere Bridge is closed to all vehicles. Tairāwhiti Civil Defence said the bridge had major structural damage.“Contractors are working to divert the river away from the twisted bridge pile because engineers are concerned the...

The dramatic fall from grace by Cabinet member Stuart Nash was the highlight of a week in politics that had its challenges for both the two main parties. Prime Minister Chris Hipkins acted decisively in first demoting Nash, then put him on a third...

The team putting together the bypass to enable traffic to access the East Coast past the Hikuwai No. 1 Bridge between Tolaga Bay and Tokomaru Bay expect to have it open by April 1. The bridge was taken out by Cyclone Gabrielle and Waka Kotahi New...

‘This will make a huge difference in helping people and business recover’

Keanu Makiri and Finn Robertson are quiet achievers. Yet these Gisborne Boys’ High School cricketers — more than any of their teammates on Wednesday — saw the Blues and Royals through to the T20 Challenge Cup final next week. Robertson made 29...

Private Owen Rayner joined the New Zealand Army Reserve Force last year hoping to serve his country. He didn't have to wait long as last month Cyclone Gabrielle pounded much of the North Island, including his home region of Tairāwhiti. He was...

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer for men in Aotearoa and Tairāwhiti has adopted a global best-practice method to perform prostate biopsies. A prostate biopsy is a procedure to remove samples of suspicious tissue from a man's prostate. The...

It was a particularly happy St Patrick's Day — to be sure, to be sure — today for Gisborne couple Diane and Don Oates. Fifty years ago, Diane and Don got married. Diane did not want a big fuss made but did tell The Gisborne Herald they had...

A single vote tipped the scales in favour of the “no” camp in reply to this week's Gisborne Herald webpoll question “do you think the response to the cyclone damage is going well?”From a total of 210 votes, 80 people (38.1 percent) voted...

The first kiwifruit of the season leave Gisborne by sea early next week on board the freighter C.S. Trust that went to anchor in Tūranganui-a-Kiwa/Poverty Bay yesterday. It is the first of eight scheduled kiwifruit shipments from here this season —...

The “Farmy Army” has mobilisied again for another mission — helping in the massive clean-up of cyclone-ravaged properties in Gisborne and Hawke's Bay. The Federated Farmers volunteer group was dubbed the “Farmy Army” when it first rallied...

Re: Another route south from Tutira, only 3km missing — March 11 letter. What's the point of promoting this to GDC when it's in the Hawke's Bay catchment? Due to emergency response efforts I have held off until now but after hearing this I am...

The Royal Commission into Abuse in Care has extended the closing date of survivor registrations to March 21.“For those survivors registered with the Royal Commission before this date, every effort will be made to hear your accounts by the end of...

A man has been accused by the district council of unlawfully digging up and removing soil that was highly contaminated with asbestos, arsenic and lead from a property he wanted to develop. Yannis Kokkosis, 34, and his solely-directed company Gypsy...

The Poverty Bay Wairoa branch of the New Zealand Federation of Women’s Institutes presented some well-earned awards this week. Alison Crawford of the Poverty Bay Wairoa Federation presented Delys Hollamby (Puha Women’s Institute) a Long Service...

CANOE Racing New Zealand has started a Givealittle page to help raise money for the hard-hit Poverty Bay Kayak Club that had floodwaters through their clubrooms in Anzac Park during Cyclone Gabrielle. The donation page will also raise money for the...

The rescue chopper crews involved in the search for a possible body seen in the water off the Gisborne coast on Friday night are confident if there was someone in the water they would have seen them. The Trust Tairāwhiti Rescue Helicopter and...

Bestriding Labour’s small conservative wing, MP for Napier Stuart Nash has been a valuable commodity for the party despite an occasional propensity for letting his mouth get away on him. He and colleagues Damien O’Connor, Kieran McAnulty and...

'Left us feeling we were walking an untouched part of the world’

Farmer surveys showing that estimated on-farm damages as a result of Cyclone Gabrielle stand at $80 million are another dramatic sign of the long, hard recovery this region faces. Fence damage is a major part of the costs, with thousands of...

Seeing the photo of the severed Gisborne main water pipeline in The Gisborne Herald was quite a revelation. It looked such a fragile and flimsy structure, strung out as it was across the landscape. I understand that whatever caused the downfall of...

Vicki Crosswell to assist with recovery in aftermath of cyclones

The Farm Forestry Association says the ministerial inquiry into land use across Tairāwhiti needs to look closely at the tree options for shoring up vulnerable farm and former forest land in the region or it will leave a legacy of mistakes long into...