Torrential rain like Cyclone Gabrielle fell across the district in the past two days, causing widespread surface flooding and rivers to rise to warning levels. The downpour on Sunday night overloaded the capabilities of the city’s sewerage system...
Gisborne’s road to recovery from Cyclone Gabrielle will take years but there are positive signs of progress, says former Prime Minister Sir Bill English Speaking from Wellington following a recent visit to Gisborne, Sir Bill, who was the Minister...
Gisborne residents living in retirement villages have been asked to help put an end to “unfair” practices that in some cases involve some operators around New Zealand still collecting fees even when residents have died. As part of a government...
The driver of one car involved in a two- car crash at the corner of Peel Street and Childers Road late on Saturday afternoon was checked over by ambulance officers. An emergency services spokesman said the other vehicle involved had left the scene...
Alzheimers Gisborne Tairāwhiti was delighted when the president of the Gisborne Contract Bridge Club, Noel Minnaar and Robyn Cheyne called in with an envelope. The envelope contained a donation of $400 from Gisborne Contract Bridge Club’s charity...
Developer Yannis Kokkosis has been convicted and ordered to do 50 hours community work after abandoning an earlier application to be discharged over an offence for shifting contaminated soil in breach of the Resource Management Act. Kokkosis, 34...
Re: new safety fence at Gisborne library As a regular walker around the city, I find the comments about walking on an even surface quite funny. I feel a lot of the money being spent on canoe bridges etc. could be better spent improving our roads and...
Re: $3.83 million dollar bridge project at Kaiti Beach and proposed $6 million whare on Kaiti Hill. I absolutely agree with your sentiments “Blew my socks off” ex Gisbornite, Gisborne Herald 23/9. The timing for this kind of spending is simply...
Starting the working week with yet another Orange warning from the MetService in place was hardly encouraging for the district and there is a cruel twist as only a few days ago it looked like summer had arrived. Record September temperatures had...
Clive Bibby Listening to the different political parties contest the right to occupy the Treasury benches after the election campaign isn’t an exercise that instils confidence in the nation’s ability to extricate itself from the economic and...
As one who over the years has dabbled in high yield tourism, your front page headline “i-Site bombshell” got my attention. At last sanity was going to prevail and the i-Site was going to be given back to those tourism operators that are not only...
Away from home, on the brink of being out of Lochore Cup contention and on a five-game losing streak . . . Poverty Bay were up against a lot of factors in Week 7 of the Heartland Championship. They responded with a 31-17 win over Horowhenua Kapiti...
Young talent was on show at the Gisborne Competitions Society Inc 103rd Festival of Performing Arts which ran from Saturday to Monday. The festival involved three categories — dance, vocal and instrumental, and speech and drama. On stage at the...
The Eastland Helicopter Rescue Trust started with modest hopes for the charity auction it hosted at the weekend, but its supporters came out in force. Held at Farmers Air Showgrounds Park Event Centre on Saturday, the 2023 Bayleys EHRT Annual...
Erosion at the northern end of Wainui Beach is the worst it has ever been and is starting to impact on the historic Whales Grave area. After the corpses of 59 sperm whales were buried there in 1970, the site was left to decline until 2013 when the...
They’ll be back. The two men who carried out a Bay of Plenty takeover of the 2023 Emerre and Hathaway Poverty Bay Men’s Open are likely to return to the scene of their domination in six weeks time. Mark Smith, of Rotorua golf club Springfield...
Raglan surfers Luca Thompson and Alani Morse won the two major titles at the primary school surfing championships that finished at Makorori Beach yesterday. Morse retained the Year 7 and 8 girls’ division title she’d won the previous year. For...
INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS 180s: F Waihape, P Waihape (2NZEF TAO Spartans); K Arahanga, H Ngarangione (RSA Stallions); I Eyles (RSA Gunz); T Irwin (Brezz’n Gold); R Leach, T Reeves (RSA Outlaws); C Reiri, G Vaotu’ua 2 (2NZEF Rebels); A Taukamo-Pohio...
Disgraced former Gisborne lawyer Chris Twigley, who was struck off seven years ago for misconduct, is applying to be reinstated. A New Zealand Law Society (NZLS) process notifying members of Twigley’s application to restore his name to the lawyers...
Zach Rolls was happy enough just to have qualified for the top 16 at the Poverty Bay Open. This morning he teed off as one of the last four in the title hunt. The 18-year-old local pulled off two of the biggest wins in his budding career yesterday -...
News that the Government is taking another look at introducing a sugar tax and salt limitations would be welcomed in this district. The information is contained in documents obtained under the Official Information Act for Radio NZ’s series OFF the...
Gavin Maclean There are lots of bad ways to vote, but the worst are for change, expediency and isolated single issues. They are insidious as they appeal to people who are otherwise quite clever and passionate. Expediency. I was shocked when someone...
The fact that NZ First is actually standing a candidate in Tairāwhiti can only be seen as an upgrading of our local democracy. The recent head to head between Labour’s Chris Hipkins and National’s Christopher Luxton showed us that neither of...
A total of 528 sheep were sold at the Matawhero saleyards yesterday. Sales are being held each fortnight. Prices for the 195 store lambs eased slightly on those paid two weeks ago, while prices remained firm for the 97 prime lambs. Murray Fleming...
Little bags of sunshine were packed by members of the Rotary Club of Gisborne for Tairāwhiti people affected by Cyclone Gabrielle. About a dozen Rotarians and friends gathered at a suburban garage and filled 101 supermarket bags with goodies aimed...
Students (ākonga) in their last year of school have the opportunity to apply for a limited number of Year 13 scholarships to study their chosen career at EIT | Te Pūkenga. The Year 13 Scholarship, which is offered annually by EIT | Te Pūkeng...
It’s that time of year again — registrations for the Titirangi Mt. Everest Challenge open on Monday. The event starts the following Monday, October 2 and ends on Sunday, November 19. To celebrate the opening of the challenge, Sport Gisborne...
A Wairoa whānau has “lost everything” after a savage fire nearly completely destroyed their home early on Thursday morning. Police have an inquiry under way into the cause of the fire at a house on the town’s Marine Parade at about 3am...
Due to forecast rain from tomorrow into next week, the district council has postponed the repair work needed to a section of the wastewater outfall pipe at Midway Beach until the week of Monday, October 2. As a result of Cyclone Gabrielle, silt...
The death of Roger Whittaker last week has saddened local fans with some remembering the Kenyan-born British balladeer performing two concerts in Gisborne in 1973. Whittaker, 87, died in Toulouse following a lengthy illness but his death was only...
The Māori electorate of Ikaroa-Rāwhiti is anyone’s game with a third of voters yet to choose their candidate. Ikaroa-Rāwhiti was flung open when former Labour minister Meka Whaitiri switched to Te Pāti Māori in May. A Whakaata Māori...
The Wharf 7 rebuild at Eastland Port won the Innovation category at the 2023 Construction Sector Accord Beacons Awards held at Te Papa in Wellington. Port general manager of infrastructure and development Marty Bayley and members of the McConnell...
The funding of $15 million to lift up homes in Tairāwhiti and keep them safe from future flooding has been welcomed by the region’s recovery organisations, that include Te Aitanga a Māhaki, Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Rongowhakaata, Ngāti Porou and...
Daylight Saving starts this weekend. At 2am tomorrow it will be time to “spring forward” into spring and summer. Daylight saving starts each year at 2am on the last Sunday in September and ends at 3am on the first Sunday in April. It is advised...