Welfare centres are set up around the region as Tairawhiti remains under a Red heavy rain warning until midday on Sunday. Extra staff were arriving from around the country yesterday afternoon to bolster the numbers for a regional response, from the...
Hangaroa residents are on high alert after rain continues to pelt down across the region. Resident Alex Campbell said the continuous downpour had caused the road passing through the Hangaroa Bluffs to be closed due to slips at the entrance. “The...
Rainfall over the region in the past few days has reached historic record levels, and a Red heavy rain warning remains in place through Sunday. Some relief came yesterday afternoon, with an easing of the downpour, and river levels were given...
In the Wild West the Pony Express saying was “the mail must get through”. Well in the ‘Wild East’ the same can be said of getting the Gisborne Herald out to people in the past 48 hours. Friday’s paper was trucked down from the printing...
Gisborne District Council put out a list of road closures yesterday afternoon for the Waipaoa and Hikurangi networks due to the latest heavy rain, after advice from their contractors. Waipaoa Lavenham Road, flooding Hihiroroa Road South 4-9km mark -...
Countdown’s Gisborne store will operate normally while the region is under a State of Emergency. “Our thoughts are with everyone in Tairāwhiti and Hawke’s Bay with unfolding weather events once again hitting the region,” Countdown’s...
State Highway 2 between Wairoa and Napier reopened following work to clear fallen debris yesterday morning after it was closed on Thursday night because of surface flooding and slips. “SH2 will be under temporary traffic control, so road users are...
Iwi at Te Karaka are looking after the township, saying they have lost trust in the Gisborne District Council-led Civil Defence Emergency (CDEM)management because of how it managed the response to Cyclone Gabrielle in February. The community and iwi...
Affco Wairoa has been fined just over half a million dollars for a worker’s death described by a judge as “wholly avoidable”. Sentencing the company in Gisborne District Court yesterday, Judge Warren Cathcart said an old freezer facility in...
The East Coast Angus Association made the decision yesterday to postpone all the Angus rising two-year-old bull sales for a week, because of the bad weather. The sales were to have started yesterday at Ratanui Angus at Tuai, with that sale postponed...
Sports venues around the region are empty over the weekend following multiple cancellations due to the state of emergency announced yesterday. Hockey (posted on Poverty Bay Hockey Turf Facebook page) “All hockey is cancelled this weekend. There...
The rising two-year-old bull sale season was to culminate next week with the annual East Coast Angus Bull Week but has been postponed a week due to the latest heavy rains. Regardless of the slight delay watching proceedings closely will be PGG...
The Herald’s Wynsley Wrigley looks at Lissa Mitchell’s gloriously illustrated publication entitled Through Shaded Glass — Women and Photography in Aotearoa New Zealand 1860 –1960. This article concentrates on the chapter about Gisborne...
Preeti Maheshwari and her family conclude their Indian holiday at one of the seven wonders of the world. If you have a penchant for romancing with ruins and reliving the life of royalty, then Agra is the place to visit. Agra is home to arguably one...
In the colder months, pasta is a welcome staple in most Kiwi households because it can both fill the whānau up and warm them up. And simply adding some of your favourite pesto to your pasta of choice can give it a real flavour boost . . . Pesto and...
Excess of anything is bad. Floods and long-standing water can be devastating to a garden. So, if you have had heavy rain for an extended period, or have experienced a flood, there are things you can do to help your garden recover. After a flood, the...
I believe the (Iranian) regime will fall within a couple of years,” said Mohsen Sazegara. “It’s very different from three years ago, when they suppressed demonstrations Gwynne Dyer in just five days. And the movement is spread all around the...
A record wet first half of the year for this region is getting wetter and while everyone is well and truly over the continual rain, hearts are again going out to those most affected — especially the people of Te Karaka who were evacuating their...
Kia ora tatau/Dear readers. Not long ago I used to be a regular contributor to this opinion page. I ceased when health challenges forced me to redirect my energy and interests to my immediate and extended whaanau. The internet and social media now...
Ann David The Shortland Street episode of June 21 portrays a scenario where an unconscious man on life support has written an advance directive rejecting precisely such support in that situation. His loving wife, believing she is doing the right...
Re: Pensioner bashed at Posie Parker protest. The 71-year-old woman is upset to hear the 20-year-old man who attacked her from behind with a blow to the head, then threw punches to her face, has been granted diversion and name suppression. He was...
Clive e hoa, Whitu tekau ma toru ōku tau. He Pakeha ahau. Kei te ako ahau i te reo Māori. Ki tāku whakaaro ko tāku kawenga i raro i Te Tiriti. Kei te pirangi au ki te mōhio ki ngā korero kei muri i ngā ingoa Māori o ngā wāhi. Ma te mōhio...
What is happening to New Zealand Post? It seems ironic that NZ Post will increase the cost of postage on July 1, yet have such poor service for mail delivery — one wonders how they can justify it. I ordered stamps from the stamp and collectable...
Teams from Manawatu and Wellington North will be in Gisborne this weekend for the second round of Badminton New Zealand’s North Island senior inter-association Central Division 1 competition. Badminton Eastland’s senior division team will play...
Popular rugby league columnist and sports blogger Dane Clarke has named three Warriors and a Gisborne-born prop in his “Most Improved Line-up of 2023 so far”. The 17-strong NRL list posted on Clarkey’s Rugby League Column features Warriors...
Gisborne United Firsts recovered from a two-goal deficit to beat Wainui Sharks 6-2 in Eastern League 1 football last Saturday. Sunshine Brewing Wainui Sharks got off to a flying start with goals to Tomas Campos Saez in the 17th minute and Ollie...
Understatement has its nuances. Rugby people aren’t in the habit of blowing their own trumpet but Hicks Bay’s 21-12 away win against Hikurangi Te Maunga to claim the Pirika Frederick William Huriwai-Jones Memorial Trophy at Kahuitara is worth...
Gisborne Boys’ High School under-14s won a great game of rugby on Saturday. The Mark Jefferson-coached side beat Akina Hastings BHS 19-17 away in a nail-biter that produced six tries. Having begun their season with a 47-0 win against East Coast at...
Defending champions YMP and Gisborne Girls High enjoyed clearcut victories in Premier Grade netball at the YMCA on Wednesday night. After racking up a 15-2 lead in the first quarter, GGHS Senior A defeated Farmlands Ngatapa 57-20. Turanga FM YMP...
The weather looks set to produce additional challenges in tonight’s Poverty Bay club hockey games at Harry Barker Reserve, particularly for the Masters and Waituhi. YMP A and B men got the weekend under way last night on the Hain Farming Turf...
IF Poverty Bay Premier club rugby gets the go-ahead on the district’s rain-hammered grounds tomorrow, competition leaders YMP will celebrate another milestone. Week 10 — the last games of Round 2 of the Civil Project Solutions Premier...
An elderly woman was rushed into the city fire station yesterday afternoon in pain and distressed, unable to remove a ring from her ring finger. A friend took the woman, whose finger was badly swollen, to the Fire and Emergency station at around...
Twelve bands from Tairāwhiti are poised to exhibit their musical prowess as they play off in the regional final of the Smokefreerockquest at the War Memorial Theatre on Saturday. The competition, now in its 36th year, involves thousands of young...
The wet weather has forced the postponement of the first of the Angus rising two-year-old bull sales in the region this season. Ratanui Angus at Tuai were to have started the ball, or should that be bull, rolling this afternoon. But it has been...