The cruise ship season rolls along this weekend with two callers. The Silver Whisper will anchor in the bay for the day tomorrow with 375 passengers on board, then the 96-passenger National Geographic Orion will dock at the port on Sunday. The usual...
Gisborne District Council is not trying to throw a bicycle down everybody’s throat. So says Mayor Rehette Stoltz, who along with councillors, defended their draft mode shift plan and draft active travel strategy at their first meeting of 2024...
A new exhibition featuring watercolour paintings by Claire Kizlink has given the artist a new lease on life as she approaches her ninetieth birthday. A selection of her work, which has been done over a number of years, is now hanging at the...
It’s time to warm up the voice box and channel your inner “Queen”. Gisborne theatre group Centre Stage will soon be running auditions for their 2024 production of We Will Rock You. We Will Rock You is a jukebox musical based on the songs of...
Gisborne rock band Lazy Fifty will play their farewell show at The Dome this Saturday before Adrian Athy heads to England with his wife/band manager Kerry to pursue music there. The gig, with opening act UNI-FI, will also be a chance for the two...
The annual Full Moon Party returns to Smash Palace this Saturday, January 27. Bringing the community together with local DJs and performers, this very special event has been held in Gisborne every summer since 2017. The outdoor/indoor event features...
Build-a-Band Smash Palace every Thursday. Bring your friends along for a friendly jam session. Free, starts at 7pm. Karaoke Expect a fun evening as patrons belt out the tunes. Share your talent with friends at Breakers’ Jandal Bar every Friday...
Secret agents and murderous assassins seem to lurk in increasingly mundane places. Remember The Accountant with Ben Affleck? Or The Tax Collector with Shia LaBeouf? Or more recently, how about The Bricklayer with Adam Eckhardt? You probably don’t...
Odeon Multiplex The Iron Claw Fact-based story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who make history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s. Stars Zac Efron. The Color Purple Film adaptation of the stage...
by John Sherratt English three-goaler Ollie Jones was named Player of the Tournament at Bushmere polo ground over the weekend, and had a hand in another prestigious award. Laura Gavin was awarded the Guy Kirkpatrick Memorial Trophy for horsemanship...
The entry line-up for the North Island stock car championships at the Gisborne Speedway Club keeps getting bigger and bigger. The entry list as of yesterday is 1NZ Kyle Rowe, 3NZ Cody Lockett, 4B Courtney Hatton, 7G Shane Bunning, 7H Hamish Whyte...
Electrinet Park Judy would have been impressed. But she also might have fired out a couple of “bloody burglars” barbs after the Gisborne Thistle AFC Golf Day produced some of the best scoring in its history on Sunday. Good weather, a short...
The first full council meeting of the year is being held today, with councillors regathering — no doubt having received lots of helpful advice over the summer break — to consider the Three-Year Plan 2024-2027 draft estimates and branding as well...
Bob Hughes Mother Earth and Aotearoa have a limited, fixed quantity of finite resources which don’t regenerate once they are used. Minerals and fossil fuels — coal, oil and gas — are finite resources that people of the future won’t have...
Re: Intrusion. Around 16,500 households took part in the 2023 post-enumeration survey. It was a follow-up to the last Census and is a standard procedure to measure the completeness of the count. It appears that your correspondent on 23rd January was...
Who is it at GDC that has a fetish for cycleways? We need more cycleways like a hole in the head. How about concentrating on the state of the roads, the footpaths — both city and suburbs — the filthy state of the main street and last but not...
New Zealand surfing legend Maz Quinn has recovered from a broken back suffered in an accident at Māhia. It has been a challenging and life-changing journey and he is keen to share that story to help others. Maz Quinn is sitting on his board out...
Prospective learners in Tairāwhiti have an opportunity to view the wide selection of programmes offered by EIT | Te Pūkenga at today’s information and enrolment day. The day is open to anyone who is interested in studying at EIT | Te Pūkeng...
The 2024 grape harvest starts in about a month and the district’s growers are hoping for kind weather up to then. “Like most crops around the district, everything looks a bit light in terms of yield at this stage,” said Gisborne Winegrowers...
Health NZ/Te Whatu Ora is reporting 86 active cases of Covid-19 in Tairāwhiti in the week ending midnight, Sunday. That compares to 104 cases during the previous week. Tairāwhiti’s total deaths remain at 41. There have been 26,120 cases in the...
A 55-year-old man being sentenced for his 23rd to 26th driver licensing offences has been given a big “break” by a judge who congratulated him for finally getting a licence. Soloman King Jan Edwards, who now has a restricted driver’s licence...
A woman stabbed her partner in the back with a kitchen knife during an argument that began in a supermarket carpark. Alisia Taylor, 28, whose case was transferred to Gisborne District Court from Levin, was hoping to get home detention for that...
Loneliness and social isolation in older adults are being tackled through a new project from the Tairāwhiti Positive Ageing Trust and the Sunshine Service. Judy Livingston, spokesperson for the Tairāwhiti Positive Ageing Trust, said people could...
Rhythm and Vines has raised $27,000 for the Gisborne Mayoral Flood Relief following their sold-out 21st festival, which brought more than 24,000 revellers to the region. Rhythm and Vines head of marketing (and 21-year R&V veteran) Kyle Bell...
British and eligible Irish citizens who have been living here for more than 15 years are now eligible to vote in the upcoming UK general election. A new law means that a previous time limit has been removed. Brits living overseas can go online to...
A shed and its contents on a property in Makauri Grove near King Road at Makauri were destroyed in a fire on Tuesday night. Fire and Emergency NZ sent four appliances, including tankers, to the forestry contractors property at around 6.30pm that...
An elderly woman was critically injured when the car she was driving collided with a goods truck at the corner of State Highway 2 and Back Ormond Road on Tuesday. Emergency services were called to the crash at around 4.45pm. Firefighters assisted in...
A small group of protesters converged outside the Mangatu Blocks head office in Childers Road yesterday and today to raise awareness of what they allege are bad investments, mismanagement of the whenua and waterways, and ignoring concerns from those...
Sentencing has been postponed for a drink-driver who seriously injured a woman when he ploughed into a house while trying to evade police. Alec Thoreson Thomson, 37, turned up at Gisborne District Court as scheduled on Tuesday for his sentencing but...
Beverley McMillan can still recall the words of father Donald as she approached the aisle for her wedding to Arnold Hutchins on January 25, 1964. “Do you really want to go through with this?” her father asked. She did and 60 years later the...
Gisborne Speedway Club superstock racer Jamie Hamilton took out the prestigious World 240s Superstock Championship at the Paradise Valley Raceway in his car 9G in Rotorua on Saturday night. The Gisborne club was well represented in the 140-car...
Surf lifeguards throughout the country are gearing up for the Eastern Regional Championships (ERCs) at Mt Maunganui this weekend. The eastern region spans the Coromandel, Bay of Plenty and Gisborne areas but the championships attract competitors...
It’s time for Australasia’s top young riders to shine at the Trans-Tasman Teams’ Challenge — one of the highlights of the Larsen Sawmilling Equestrian Championships in Gisborne this weekend. The Kiwis have named a solid team in Emma Gillies...
Tairāwhiti paddlers dominated the 250-metre races that traditionally close the Waka Ama Sprint Nationals at Lake Karāpiro. Kaiarahi Toa had just won the final teams race of the champs — the premier women’s W6 500 metres — for Self Storage...