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Ute crashes near Loisels on Good Friday

A man was checked over by a St John ambulance crew after the ute he was driving left State Highway 35 late Good Friday morning and hit a tree. The crash happened at around 11.30am between Thomas Road and Waihau (Loisels) Road. There was no report...

Thistle football club celebrates 100 years

Weekend celebration sets up Gisborne Thistle for the next 100 years, says president.

Cold southerlies dominated in March, April looking dry

The latest weather outlooks from the two main agencies both pick below average rainfall for the Gisborne-East Coast region. Rainfall totals for the district are likely to be near-to-below-normal (MetService) this month, while Niwa says rainfall for...

NZ coming out of fifth Covid wave

Fourteen Covid-19 deaths were recorded by Health NZ Te Whatu Ora last week, and none were in Gisborne, as the country comes out of the fifth wave of the virus. Health NZ reported there were 33 active cases in Gisborne as at midnight on Sunday. There...

‘We’re a silent minority’

Gisborne’s disabled community begin campaign for council to renew strategy which expired 10 years ago.

Gisborne Herald 3.04.24

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Small boost for those on lower incomes

It was not an April Fool’s Day joke; thousands of New Zealanders have been given more disposable income with which to start the new financial year, but owners of electric vehicles won’t remember the day so fondly. According to Stuff, those on...

Focused on improving public services

Dana Kirkpatrick MP for East Coast It has been another busy month in Government and I am looking forward to spending some time in the electorate over the month of April — we don’t sit in the House in the school holidays, so it allows us time to...

Subdued economy ‘to be expected’

In the last three months of 2023, the Tairāwhiti economy saw little change from the previous two quarters. The regional economic development agency says the subdued economy reflects the lingering impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle, household spending...

Half the normal rainfall for March

A dismal Easter and wetter last half of the month has eased the dryness of local soils. Easter Weekend brought patchy wind and rain, but not much of the wet stuff, and March ended with less than half its normal rainfall. Rainfall totalled just short...

Loving Lego at brick show

Gisborne Lego User Group used an “A”-word different than the famous song from The Lego Movie to describe the second Te Tairāwhiti Brick Show at Ilminster Intermediate School hall at the weekend . . . “amazing”. Awesome would have been...

Waikaremoana excluded from Great Walks price hikes

The price increases for the country’s Great Walks announced last week do not include Lake Waikaremoana. Department of Conservation director of heritage and visitors Cat Wilson said DoC had become aware that some information released last week was...

Cars impounded, infringement notices issued during boy racers’ Easter ‘invade’

Police cracked down as promised on the “invade” of Gisborne at the weekend by “boy racers” from other parts of the country, with 10 of the racers’ cars impounded and more than 50 infringement notices issued.

Gisborne Herald 2.04.24

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Sharing information about pay, no fear

Labour MP Camilla Belich’s bill, drawn out of the Parliamentary biscuit tin last week, would permit employees to discuss their pay with co-workers. If passed, the Employment Relations (Employee Remuneration Disclosure) Amendment Bill will allow...

Weekender 30.03.24

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