Ilminster Intermediate School celebrated Matariki and the upcoming school holidays with a special assembly and concert designed to lift their spirits after what has been a tough term. The celebration focused on recognising the key values of Matariki...
Contrary to what a correspondent said on Thursday’s opinion page, there has not been an external audit of council and Civil Defence actions during Cyclone Gabrielle. An independent third party was commissioned to compile an event timeline, which...
Gwynne Dyer “I said to Putin: ‘We could waste (Prigozhin), no problem. If not on the first try, then on the second.’ I told him: ‘Don’t do this’,” said Aleksandr Lukashenko, long-ruling dictator of Belarus, clearly delighted at having...
The 50-metre pool at the Gisborne Olympic pool complex was heated again from Thursday after wood chip issues were solved, and pool management said the pool would reopen today. The water would be in a “cooler yet swimmable” condition over the...
June will long be remembered by Gisborne-East Coast folk as the month it forgot to stop raining. The past 30 days have been some of the most testing in the district’s history — Gisborne’s wettest June in 144 years, with rain on 20 of those...
A new initiative to help get patients from the East Coast to health appointments in Gisborne city starts on Monday. “There are not many places in Aotearoa that don’t have free health shuttles funded, so it felt like the East Coast was the last...
Two forestry companies and their directors charged by the District Council for alleged breaches of resource consents, revealed by storm events last March, have chosen to have their cases decided by juries. The companies and their respective...
A five-year-old boy stood screaming in fear as his father stormed about their house throwing items, pushing the boy’s mother, and whipping her with an extension cord. The woman had just arrived home from her nightshift work and had cooked...
A new video being launched in Gisborne tomorrow features Civil Defence messages in 21 languages. It is the brainchild of the Tairāwhiti Multicultural Council (TMC). The hour-and-a-half video features locals of different ethnicities, reading...
Kowhai House, Gisborne’s community immunisation centre based in Palmerston Road, closed yesterday. The hub started distributing RAT tests and Covid-19 vaccinations in 2020 and later became a general immunisation hub for the Tairāwhiti community...
A judge has been told how an 11-year-old boy, regularly beaten and whipped by his father, was removed from his family and sent to Weymouth Boys’ Home, where the abuse by people in authority continued and the boy's criminal offending began. That...
All children aged 12 years and under will ride the bus for free from today. The Government announced the initiative last month in an attempt to ease the cost-of-living pressure on families. Gisborne District Council network technician Hanoa Morete...
GISBORNE CLUB DARTS ASSOCIATION June 27 — Individual highlights 180s: J White (Brezz’n Gold); H Brown (2) (Stallions); T Kaio (2), M Reedy (Done n Dusted); T O’Neill ( 6 Shooters). Highest start: (180) H Brown (Stallions); T Kaio (Done n...
If at first you don’t succeed . . . well, you know the rest. Woolie Jumpers epitomise the old saying about trying again and never giving up. They won the social grade of the BIZminton 2023 mercantile badminton competition after humble beginnings...
Gisborne’s Renee Holmes underlined her importance to the “new-era” Black Ferns with a strong performance in a 50-0 whitewash of Australia in Brisbane on Thursday night. The Wallaroos had no answer to the world champions in their opening clash...
Ratanui Angus at Tuai inland from Wairoa got the East Coast Angus rising two-year-old bull sales season off to a strong sell-out start in their on-farm auction yesterday afternoon. The Story family sold 28 out of 28 young bulls put up for sale, for...
Ratanui Angus at Tuai inland from Wairoa got the East Coast Angus rising two-year-old bull sales season off to a strong sell-out start in their on-farm auction yesterday afternoon. The Story family sold 28 out of 28 young bulls put up for sale, for...
Adam Young When I imagine the exercise of free speech, speaking truth to power and “sticking it to the man”, I don’t think of back-room discussions or big-money lobbying. No, one simply needs to run a Google image search of “free speech”...
There was a fall of up to $20 per head for store lambs at the Matawhero Saleyards yesterday. The wet ground conditions with market and climate uncertainty are making potential buyers cautious. There were a total of 1445 sheep sent for sale...
Gisborne Olympian Alicia Hoskin has recently teamed up with Bayleys to create a programme aimed at helping youngsters. Diana Dobson finds out more . . . Olympic kayaker Alicia Hoskin has plenty of possible superpowers she could claim. Instead, this...
For 100 years, land at Tokomaru Bay has been locked up under archaic legislation, shutting Māori landowners out of what is rightfully theirs. But one woman is refusing to give up the fight to get it back. Matthew Rosenberg speaks with Tin...
Thai cuisine is fragrant, exotic and delicious. Cooking Thai food often involves balancing flavours intricately, so you end up with the food equivalent of ‘harmony’ — rather than a dish that is too spicy, too sour, too sweet or dominated by...
No matter how big or small you garden may be, supporting the pollinators will help you while you help them. Butterflies, bees and birds add beauty and excitement to any garden. Bees, butterflies, birds, and insects play a really important role in...
In the enchanting Cambodian city of Siem Reap, Mike Yardley discovers a world of paradoxes, where ancient traditions intertwine with modern allure. After the convulsion of Covid, the tourist trade has stirred back into life in Siem Reap, gateway to...
One definition of a news story is that it’s something that someone doesn’t want printed on the front page. The Herald obviously had such a story in Saturday’s edition because it had the effect of getting right up the nose of the GDC chief...
Re: Christmas Parade organiser. I’m sure the GDC can get one offshore. M.J. Arthur
The issue of conflict of interest has been in headlines quite a lot recently regarding various ministers and public servants. I came across a glaring example of conflict of interest in the “Interagency Committee on the Health effects of...
The personal can become very public for politicians and many will be feeling for East Coast MP Kiri Allan who has had that in spades this week as she returned to Parliament from a mental health break. News reports of “concerns” about the working...
Clive Bibby In politics, there is a time and place for everything and now, more than ever in these troubling times, we need to focus on maintaining an environment that allows governments to operate in the best interests of all citizens — including...
The Government is progressing work in response to the Ministerial Inquiry into land use in Tairāwhiti/Gisborne and Wairoa, say Environment Minister David Parker and Forestry Minister Peeni Henare. “The inquiry report, Outrage to Optimism, made 49...
Gisborne footballers will dip their studs in the mud as they return to local league competition this weekend. Women’s Eastern League games on Sunday are the most likely to go ahead. The grounds have an extra day to recover, and the women have had...
They’re not slowing down on the Coast. Last week’s games in H Blackbee Contractors Ngāti Porou East Coast men’s club rugby will be played tomorrow at the same times and venues. Pango Productions Waiapu are to host Waima at George Nepi...
POVERTY Bay club hockey over the weekend has plenty of mouth-watering prospects but the men’s clash between Lytton Old Boys Traktion and YMP A tomorrow is likely to be the tastiest. Their top-of-the-table encounter takes place at 5pm on the Hain...
GISBORNE professional triathlete Tayler Reid had a top 20 finish at the Montreal Triathlon last weekend. Reid was 20th in the 55-strong elite men’s race in the Canadian city — the fourth event of the World Triathlon Championship Series. He...