Expect some top notch live music to go with the cold brews at the 5th Annual Gisborne Beer Festival coming to the Gisborne Soundshell on Easter Saturday. Festival-goers are promised a selection of beers from some of New Zealand’s top breweries and...
Rehearsals are well under way for the Gisborne Choral Society’s first concert of the year, scheduled for May 26. It will be a collection of folk songs and spirituals, with a mixture of fun pieces and sentimental favourites. One item that is...
Renewed calls by dentists for a ban on soft drinks in schools should be heeded, backed up as they are by damning statistics. New Zealand Dental Association spokesman Dr Rob Beaglehole says soft drinks are “decimating” the country’s children...
Bob Hughes Re: Following, questioning — March 20. Here, Simin Williams supports Iain Boyle’s “Science debate overdue” letter and I explain the Media Council findings of the Neil Henderson against The Gisborne Herald case of 2015. “The...
Re: Petitioners slam regulatory caution, demand swift land use rule overhaul — March 19 story. Mana Taio Tairāwhiti are out of line calling for immediate changes to land use in our region. Yes, we need to make changes to both forestry and...
Gisborne District Council is backing a proposal from Regional and Unitary Councils Aotearoa - Te Uru Kahika that seeks urgent government funding for flood protection work. The chairs of 10 of the 11 regional councils and four of the six unitary...
The Department of Conservation is appealing for information from the public after a protected great white shark was found decapitated on Māhia beach last Friday. The incident comes just weeks after an attempted pygmy sperm whale refloat coincided...
The heavy southerly swell in Turanganui-a-Kiwa/Poverty Bay forced the cancellation of the cruise ship Noordam’s visit to Gisborne yesterday. A ships’ agent said the skipper decided on Tuesday that sea conditions would be too difficult. The big...
Genesis energy company shared its experience of Cyclone Gabrielle during a media tour of the Lake Waikaremoana Power Station last Thursday. The company was keen to dispel rumours that they “opened the floodgates”, causing the flooding of Wairo...
Tūhoe say Genesis has ignored a promise to engage with them on an invasive weed growing in Lake Waikaremoana, in northern Hawke’s Bay. “We spoke to them, we wrote to them, and they ignored any response,” a Tūhoe iwi representative said. The...
In 1936 a Leap Year proposal of marriage to a Gisborne nonagenarian gained attention in newspapers in both new Zealand and Australia. The newspaper articles generated further marriage proposals, and the recipient — 97-year-old Isaiah McSaveney —...
A historic olive tree planted by East Coast identity Hosea Manuel in the mid-1850s has survived the fire that burned around 10 hectares at Port Awanui near Tikitiki this week. However, several ancient pohutukawa were not so fortunate and were...
Wairoa cancer patients are now travelling a matter of minutes as opposed to hours to get chemotherapy treatment. And it’s happened because of the advocacy of a group of Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora nurses and Cyclone Gabrielle. Within 10 days...
Gisborne’s three clubs won more than 20 national titles between them over the three days of the New Zealand surf lifesaving championships at Mount Maunganui last weekend
New rules are being proposed for Gisborne’s cemeteries, including a ban on offensive headstones.
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Last Wednesday was a great one for youth cricket at Harry Barker Reserve. The reserve served as the venue for the Primary Festival Day on which 10 teams from nine schools played five fast-paced games of eight-a-side, eight-overs soft-ball cricket...
A spectacular rollover by TQ racer Dylan MacGregor left fans gasping at the Gisborne Speedway on Saturday night and he was fortunate to be able to walk away. It happened on the first lap in MacGregor’s first race of the night on board 17G as he...
Gisborne’s Alicia Hoskin likely to be member of K4 crew that will head to Paris Olympics.
“Trees for all reasons” is the theme of the next field day by the Gisborne East Coast branch of the NZ Farm Forestry Assocation. It is on Sunday, at Wensleydale, 901 Waiomoko Road, Whangara. The branch will also hold its annual meeting on that...
The Government’s crackdown on unruly state house tenants will be welcomed by many long-suffering neighbours, some of whom are living a nightmare existence — but will it still leave a huge social problem? The Housing and Finance Ministers have...
Last year, our population boomed. After two years of anaemic population growth, 2023 saw the country grow by a whopping 2.8 percent or 145,100 people. We haven’t seen anything like this amount of growth for at least a generation. But this was...
Re: Ex-MP, not ex-Green MP — March 19 letter. Gosh, it’s been so hard to keep up lately: First we have Dr Elizabeth Kerekere, ex-Green MP, then ex-MP. Then we have Golriz Ghahraman, Green, ex-MP. Now we have Darleen Tama, Green MP — Suspended...
I have a few concerns about the Waka Bridge. Has anyone even noticed that Te Maro actually faces diagonally away from the proposed viewing platform and will likely be obscured (or even potentially blocked) by the base of Titirangi and its...
People have voted for those who say they’ll hold rates or those who don’t increase taxes for decades. As a consequence, there hasn’t been enough money to pay for new infrastructure or maintenance — even though money did need to be spent...
Eastland Port is gearing up for a bountiful time over the next three months, with the return of kiwifruit ships, and seven charter ships scheduled to visit marking an exciting milestone for both the port and local horticulture industry. Over 8000...
Forty years after teaching religious studies and geography at Campion College, Father Mark Field has returned to Gisborne as parish priest at St Mary’s Star of the Sea. Father Mark took up the role in February after acting as parish priest in...
by Ann Revington Building infrastructure resilience post-cyclone could be under threat with changing NZ Transport Agency-Waka Kotahi funding formulas. Wairoa District Council Infrastructure and Regulatory committee last month wrestled with the...
The visit of boutique cruise ship Heritage Adventurer went ahead as scheduled on Monday. The small ship went to anchor out in Turanganui-a-Kiwa/Poverty Bay until early afternoon, and 75 of the passengers on board came ashore for an excursion to...
Armed with passion, knowledge and experience, Gisborne Hospital’s diverse new group of social workers all want to ensure that the whānau voice is heard. The new social workers are Sela NiaNia Tai, Fontaine Maxwell, Celeste Chetty and Jennifer...
Wairoa landfill in just six years has gone from having the capability to accept rubbish from other councils to having to offload its rubbish to other councils. Wairoa District Council’s 2018 Waste Management and Minimisation Plan said: “Wairo...
Three new community care coordinators are taking the “ick” out of bowel screening in Tairāwhiti. Aroha Hokianga, Stacey Reeves and Linda Ngārimu are making sure eligible residents are taking part in the free National Bowel Screening Programme...
There are 57 active cases of Covid-19 in Tairāwhiti, according to the latest official figures. Health NZ figures up to midnight on Sunday state there have been 26,629 cases of Covid and 43 deaths in Tairāwhiti since the pandemic broke out in New...