There is an important display at the Poverty Bay A&P Show this week that Tairāwhiti Civil Defence Emergency Management wants everyone in the community to see. It's an emergency pod — a six-metre shipping container packed with emergency equipment...

The region's Covid-19 vaccination programme will “stretch outside the national guidance” set by the Government and rural residents will not be disadvantaged, Hauora Tairawhiti board chairwoman Kim Ngarimu says. The vaccination of front-line...

There is a salutary lesson for us all in how our country and much of the world has responded to the coronavirus pandemic: that economies will be shut down to protect elderly and other vulnerable citizens from a highly-contagious disease that will...

POLICE made four arrests in the early hours of this morning after a dog team tracked down four people in relation to a stolen motor vehicle found in Gisborne city. The car was spotted in the city centre by a police patrol at around 2am.“The people...

A GradeIndividual highlights180s: Tahuna Irwin 3, Toby Ratapu (Falcons); Ihaka Kaio-Wynyard 2, Te Kotahi Kaio, Corey Kaio (Young Guns); John White 2 (Tigers); Matty Reedy 2, Junior Akurangi (Done & Dusted).Highest start, men (180): Junior Akurangi...

SHOULD the region do more to promote te reo Maori?

GISBORNE will celebrate Chinese New Year this Sunday with a special get-together at the Chinese Hall on Disraeli Street. Attendees will bring a dish for a pot luck lunch to the celebration organised by the Gisborne Branch of the Chinese...

Saturday, August 62016 NZ Concert Band Festival, 9am - 4.30pm, War Memorial Theatre, $5. Gisborne Unity Theatreall-woman production of three short plays, including Towpath, Whether I Fall, and a devised work about women bringing up mokopuna. 3pm...

Ikaroa-Rawhiti MP Meka Whaitiri says the Government is backing regional New Zealand by continuing to create opportunities for rangatahi to get into employment, education or training. She was speaking after the Government announced the next tranch of...

Vaccination providers say whānau efforts are behind Tairāwhiti's eligible Māori population inching closer to the 90 percent partially-vaccinated milestone. Turanga Health chief executive Reweti Ropiha said a range of whānau efforts were behind...

Tairawhiti youngsters will be snuggly and warm in their pyjamas over winter, thanks to the community's best-ever Jammies 4 June fundraiser. J4J Gizzy received 768 brand new pairs of PJs and over 200 other items, including blankets, beanies, socks...

Gisborne Speedway Club has nervous eyes on the heavens as it hosts the New Zealand sidecar championships, with rain likely to have an impact. A field of 30 bikes will contest the national sidecars title and the club has organised two nights of strong...

For the first time I'm aware, Whataupoko Reserve is closed to all walkers because the council's land clearing has stripped decades of stabilising vegetation. Mud has sloughed down slopes from 7kms of high-density cycle-trails. I would have thought...

MULTIPLE shearing champion John Kirkpatrick has bounced back to winning form after a year off with injury. The 45-year-old Napier gun returned to original home Gisborne territory to win a four-man, 15-sheep open final at the Poverty Bay Show on...

NEARLY 100 dogs have been desexed so far through the Fred Lewis Enterprise Foundation desexing project. Enterprise Motor Group last month committed to donating $600,000 over the next five years as the major sponsor of the foundation for the programme...

I would like the train back. I always used to see the train come to Gisborne and I am missing it dearly. I attend Rail Action Group meetings and I am a great fan of trains. I will never give up. There are too many trucks on the roads. They wreck our...

Thistle massive can almost put the champagne on ice after the penultimate Saturday of Gisborne Championship Division 1 football. Thistle drew with Wainui Demons 5-all on the field but won the match off it after Central Football upheld...

Seal season is here. Leave them to rest. That is the message from East Coast Department of Conservation. DoC biodiversity ranger Jamie Quirk says while seals are marine mammals, they spend a lot of their time on land, particularly between June and...

A monthly series of concerts by musicians and student pianists has provided a welcome respite from winter chills at Professor Jack Richards' Okitu residence, Tiromoana. In conjunction with Musica Viva, the local chapter of Chamber Music New Zealand...

THE First Light Kai street food festival will be staged again in the New Year at the same time and the same place as the highly successful inaugural event in January this year. Businesses interested in being part of it have been encouraged to...

Even though there are no official meetings this week, there is a lot happening around town. It is all go with the resealing of Gladstone Road so, if possible, park closer to the town clock side of town this week and walk to the shops closer to Peel...

Hemi Porou is a familiar face outside Countdown where he regularly busks but if anyone marches to the beat of his own drum, guitar, double bass, euphonium, bagpipes, it is the Gisborne multi-instrumentalist. Hemi talks to Mark Peters about the...

It was a fire drill with a difference for the children at Matawai School yesterday, who got to experience what it would be like to get out of the building when there is limited visibility due to smoke. Six crew from Matawai Volunteer Fire Brigade...

‘We all miss her badly’

'I was absolutely terrified but I told myself not to panic'

DRIVING positive values into the hearts and minds of New Zealand school children came by way of a Vodafone Warriors truck in this district on Tuesday. The Mac Superline emblazoned with the Warriors logo is New Zealand’s biggest mobile classroom and...

Rocket Lab's most controversial Mahia launch to date is scheduled to take place from tomorrow. The US-based space company will open daily launch windows from 11.20am tomorrow through to March 31. The mission, dubbed They Go Up So Fast, will deploy...

A LIFE-LONG passion for textiles and fabrics has led to the award of a prestigious medal to former Gisborne woman Raechel Laing. As director of Otago University’s clothing and textiles centre, Professor Laing researches the structure and...

This region has already gone through a total change in land use for environmental reasons, aimed at protecting our diminishing resource base. We are now having to look at helping to save the planet through “world-first” agricultural emissions...

Nine more log ships, two more cruise ships to arrive this month