New Zealand’s top surf lifeguards will be honoured for their achievements and contributions at the Surf Life Saving New Zealand (SLSNZ) Awards of Excellence later this month, and a stack of them come from Gisborne. On September 23 lifeguards and...
More than 150,000 plastic pots were eliminated from the operations of Native Garden Nursery last year thanks to a $10,000 contribution from the 2022 Waste Minimisation Fund. Every year Gisborne District Council supports a community initiative that...
One of New Zealand’s most comprehensive collections of Rene Lalique artworks, owned by Dr Jack Richards and formerly displayed in Gisborne, goes under the hammer tomorrow. Dr Richards’ work as an internationally-renowned linguist and educator...
The Gisborne area has now had 50 days without significant rain — another indication of the building El Nino. Historical records show no dry spell has started this early in the year. The last decent drop of rain was 35.7 millimetres on July 21. In...
Producers hope people take away different kaupapa from series Showcasing Māori horsemanship in taming wild Wīwī Naati horses in just 100 days is front and centre of a television series with connections to Ngāti Porou. The show, Native Ride, has...
Two brothers who brutally bashed a man at Mahia, dragging him into a ditch and leaving him there with life-threatening injuries, have been sentenced. Ryan Ormond, 28, and Harland Ormond, 24, were sentenced together in the High Court at Gisborne...
I am often surprised many still believe climate change isn’t a threat. I no longer receive continuous outright climate change denials, but despite the urgency of the climate crisis, many of the same defence responses continue to come. For example...
The Gisborne Combined Secondary Schools Orchestra took their music to the people this week with four performances in one day entertaining a diverse audience ranging from school students to retirees. Playing a repertoire made up mostly of...
Ruatōria will be rugby central tomorrow when Ngāti Porou East Coast host Poverty Bay in a Heartland Championship Week 5 derby with more than just competition points on the line. What is shaping up to be another classic duel between the scarlet of...
Gisborne Boys’ High and Gisborne Girls’ High finished just out of the medals in their secondary school hockey tournaments last week. GBHS, coached by Wade Manson assisted by Aidan Scragg, were fourth at the Founders Cup in Napier. GGHS, coached...
Gisborne have continued to battle hard at the NZ Open netball championships in Dunedin. The Ingrid Brown-coached Gisborne team were beaten 40-34 by Taranaki in their final Pool D game at the Edgar Centre. It followed losses to Counties Manukau...
Men’s open championship, Week 5 — Horouta 37 (Myles Walker 10, Hone Waitoa 8, Taylor Haenga 6) Rizzlies 56 (James Aston 17, Israel Kerisome 16, Wayne Bartram 7 - Q1 Rizzlies 15-3, HT 34-16, Q3 47-30). Gizzy Gilas 36 (Raphael Heria 14, Cabinian...
Wainui Demons will run on to Childers Road Reserve No. 1 tomorrow in pristine condition for football’s Bailey Cup final against Gisborne United. The reason? Well, they don’t train for a start . . . no pesky training injuries for them. Even their...
It won’t be daylight saving for another week but many New Zealanders will be getting out of bed early from tomorrow as the Rugby World Cup coverage starts at 6.45am. The competition to find the best rugby team in the world runs on to October 29...
Ivermectin for COVID-19 is discouraged by multiple international assessments due to the availability of more effective treatment options and vaccines, with a potential for re-evaluation pending further clinical trials.
What is happening to our legal system? I read the article of the trial of the man who decided to invade a child’s sleeping space — yes she was 17, a child — and raped her. As he ran off, her friends caught him. Why oh why does he get his eight...
They say, “All’s fair in love and war” yet the political advertisemt placed in the NZ Herald (4/9/23) by NZCTU seems to have raised a few eyebrows. Given the current electoral climate, I cannot see the ad as inherently unfair. I do wonder...
Gisborne’s Gladstone Road has been nominated as a finalist in the Keep New Zealand Beautiful national awards. Keep New Zealand Beautiful recently announced the finalists and recipients of its Beautiful Awards 2023, including Aotearoa’s Most...
High barometric pressure over the past few days has seen local rivers drop further at low tides, exposing more of the riverbeds and banks. The high reached 1033 hectopascals off the coast and the pressure was still 1026 yesterday afternoon
Tairāwhiti-based medicinal cannabis company Rua Bioscience this week announced its “momentous” entry into the A$240 million-a-year Australian medicinal cannabis market. On Tuesday, an NZX statement said Rua Bioscience had teamed up with Anspec...
A prominent health advocate says New Zealand needs to step up its game to address a medicine funding crisis that is forcing people to look offshore. This week, Patient Voice Aotearoa chair Malcolm Mulholland began a 16-stop nationwide tour to launch...
The worlds of theatregoers and bookworms combine over the next two days with plays being hosted at both traditional and non-traditional settings one after the other. The Book Addict is by Annie Ruth, a former Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School director...
A man is facing 10 animal cruelty charges relating to a team of dogs, including one he allegedly allowed to become so emaciated that it died. Matthew Gordon Brown, 46, of Te Karaka, made a preliminary appearance in Gisborne District Court yesterday...
The thrills of go-karting have been revived for two Tolaga Bay Area School junior students. The boys, Te Ahi Kaa Edwards, 9, and Jayden Piahana, 10, spent a morning at the Tairāwhiti Menzshed, along with their teacher aide. The idea to build...
An emergency response to natural disasters, including a possible magnitude 9 “megathrust” earthquake is in better shape, following the opening of a new purpose-built Emergency Coordination Centre (ECC) Te Manawa Whakarauora. An official opening...
September is World Alzheimers Month and a chance to support people and their whānau living with dementia. The theme for 2023 is “never too early, never too late” to emphasise what people can do as individuals to reduce their risk. “Dementi...
The niece of a woman who died after being struck by her own vehicle in a collision caused by a careless driver on Awapuni Road, has successfully campaigned for a change to nearby road signage. Determined not to let her aunt Margaret Ohuka’s death...
Pouawa and Turihaua are not yet lost to campers wishing to camp there this summer.
Patutahi Shayde Skudder will be giving it his all on two sporting battlefields over the weekend. “Skudz” will co-captain Poverty Bay Wekas in their Heartland Championship rugby derby against Ngāti Porou East Coast in Ruatoria on Saturday. The...
For the first time in over five years Poverty Bay held the Junior Intermediate Inter School Rippa/Tackle competition at Barry Park. Among the schools that competed, Gisborne Intermediate School met Patutahi and beat them in the final of the Ripp...
The greens were manicured and fast, the weather was perfect, and 54 players in their club uniforms were keen to begin the 2003/04 season at Gisborne Bowling Club’s opening day. Club president Chris Bunyan welcomed the teams and asked life member...
The Gisborne Netball Centre representative team had a tough start to the Netball NZ Open Championships in Dunedin on Tuesday but it was not unexpected. The week-long tournament features 19 provincial teams split into five pools. Gisborne is in...
Gisborne Boys’ High School’s first 11 football team finished an “unlucky” fourth in the Rex Dawkins Tournament in Napier last week, but they have inspired their coach to aim much higher. “We were super unlucky not to reach the final,”...
News of a proposed alliance between Russia and North Korea is alarming, with its potential to extend the disastrous war in Ukraine. American intelligence and overseas news reports say North Korean leader Kim Jong Un plans to visit Russia this month...