'It's just taking too long to do anything': Mayor Little

IT'S Relay Your Way. Like Covid-19 before it, Cyclone Gabrielle has forced the Gisborne-East Coast Cancer Society to adapt its Relay for Life, usually held at one venue. As recently as the end of January, the society was looking forward to the event...

The that was set up to support the Poverty Bay and Hawke's Bay kayak clubs had - as of 12.45pm today - raised $3700 as club members continued to repair their cyclone-damaged building at Anzac Park. Canoe Racing NZ would be contributing another $2000...

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Evolution Theatre's latest production Rumors is hilarious entertainment, where a traumatic situation is handled with silliness and mix-ups. In other words, it's your classic farce. Party host Charlye Brock (played by Andrew Stevens) never actually...

Taking inspiration from her natural surroundings and having a desire to learn historical accounts of different cultures helps local painter Phoenix Aaliyah to create some fascinating artworks that are a feast for the eyes. Using interactive and...

Locals who fancy vintage furniture or are looking to decorate their interiors with a period vibe can approach local furniture restorer Jason Akuhata-Brown at his new pop-up shop at Roebuck road this Saturday. His collection includes tables, chairs...

Some level of treated water supply from the Waingake pipeline to Gisborne is on track for the end of March, Gisborne District Council community lifelines director David Wilson says.“The restoration is progressing at pace with the water pipeline...

Netball season about to get under way

The district council has been partly successful in its prosecution this week of a developer who excavated and disposed of highly contaminated soil from a Gisborne property he wanted to subdivide. Yannis Kokkosis, 34, is the sole director of Gypsy...

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...

Fox has training session with Gisborne clubbies before Taurang

Toitū Tairāwhiti Housing working hard to provide temporary accommodation for flood victims

‘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...

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...

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...

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 —...

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 “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...

The Trust Tairāwhiti Rescue Helicopter and another rescue chopper from Hawke's Bay were called out last night after a report from a passing cruise ship about a possible body in the water off Gisborne's coast. Maritime New Zealand initiated the...

Gisborne-East Coast men’s and women’s teams are in Christchurch competing in the national intercentre bowls tournament that finishes on Sunday. Play started yesterday at clubs throughout Canterbury. Men: Shaun Goldsbury, Malcolm Trowell, Steve...