Reggae powerhouse Chad “The Boogieman” Chambers’ long-awaited debut album Nāti Shores carries the heart of soul music and leaves you wanting more. Chambers (Ngāti Porou, Te Whānau a Te Aotāwirirangi me Ruataupare) is set to release Nāti...
Aspiring Thespians who are looking to show their acting chops can now audition for Evolution Theatre’s Shakespearean romantic comedy The Taming of the Shrew. The play which is believed to have been written in the late 1590s narrates the story of...
Upcoming Wellington artist Rei’s latest single All We Got is tuned as a drum and bass cum kapa haka and pop mash that will send music lovers straight back to the vibe of their favourite festival. Following up on this summer’s DnB te reo hit Te...
Rhythm and Vines organisers want to know what the public think about the local music extravaganza with a short survey. Organisers of the three-day music festival said they wanted to hear from festivalgoers as R&V — one of the country’s...
Not one but two renowned international music festivals have invited local band Brazilbeat Sound System to perform at their venues in America this June. Now in it’s 26th year, Sierra Nevada World Music Festival is a three-day camping and music...
Gisborne Hiabs were called in yesterday morning to clean up and recover the trailer of a truck and trailer unit carrying wood chip that came to grief in the railway station yards on Tuesday night. A witness said the trailer tipped and spilled its...
Tolaga Bay’s George Sheild and Wairoa’s David Scragg were joined on the leaderboards at the Tux South Island and New Zealand dog trial championships yesterday by Matawai’s Samantha Shaw. Shaw and her dog Rouge made the top seven in event three...
Kaleb Jacobs is probably not your ideal poster boy for what to do after you’ve dislocated your shoulder. Playing striker for Coates Associates Wainui Demons against Gisborne Thistle Youth last Saturday, Jacobs hit a shot towards goal and fell...
First Kicks 4v4, Watson Park, 8.30am: 1, Central Tahi v Central Rua; 3, Kaiti Horouta v Awapuni Green; 4, Mangapapa Storm v Te Hapara Kea; 5, Mangapapa Mist v Mangatuna; 6, Mangapapa Floods v Wainui Mussels; 7, Bayleys Ngatapa Kiwis v Wainui Kin...
The loss of his trusty 5-wood proved an ace blessing in disguise for long-time Te Puia Hot Springs member Peter Harrison on Sunday. Harrison sank his tee shot on the 148-metre par-3 ninth hole at the Springs — the third hole-in-one of his career...
POVERTY BAY He tempted fate last year. Not this time. Simon Jeune chose not to repeat his 2022 action of touching the giant Enterprise Motor Warehouse open foursomes trophy before teeing off on Saturday. Eighteen holes later he and Glenn Morley had...
Gisborne surfer Saffi Vette is one of three women in a six-strong New Zealand team to the ISA World Surfing Games at Surf City, El Salvador. The Games begin with the opening ceremony and the Pouring of the Sands on Tuesday next week. Vette became...
Gisborne Boardriders Club held its third and final Junior Series event in solid 1-to-1.5-metre Northern Makorori waves at the weekend. Rising star Asia Braithwaite was again in the spotlight, with victory in the girls’ under-18 division, while Max...
A jury deliberated for three hours yesterday before finding Mongrel Mob couple George Hallet Walker and Grace Mercedies guilty of murdering Gisborne woman Maraea Smith. Ms Smith, 36, was shot dead on Titoki Street about 9.55pm on March 25, last...
Gisborne Hospital Ward 5 nurses yesterday celebrated victory in court but remain adamantly committed to alleviating safety and staffing concerns. Nurses from as far away as Ruatoria joined a rally outside the hospital yesterday to support Ward 5...
Consent has been lodged for the Waikare Gorge realignment project to bypass six kilometres of the existing State Highway 2, including the slip- and rockfall-prone Waikare Gorge between Wairoa and Napier. The realignment project will include 3.9km of...
The Tairāwhiti Emergency Management Roadshow starts in Tokomaru Bay on Sunday with stop one of its five-weekend tour. The roadshow brings together emergency services in Tairāwhiti to train in partnership with community Civil Defence volunteers...
Alzheimers NZ’s Gisborne services face permanent closure due to government funding restrictions, it was revealed yesterday. “We’re clinging to the lifeboats,” Alzheimers Gisborne manager Tracy Robinson said. “We may have to close down...
The Labour Party Maori Caucus ministers were in Gisborne yesterday to spread the word on the Budget 2023 funding announcements for Maori. The total Māori package this year is just over $825 million. Funding announced included $23m for extending Te...
Kerrah Simmentals from Whakaki kept the bull sales season success going in the region on Tuesday when they achieved an almost total clearance in their on-farm auction. The Knauf family put up 73 rising two-year-old bulls and sold 72 of them at...
The cost of the Gisborne District Council election of 2022 has been determined at $217,000 plus GST for 35,000 electors, or $6 plus GST for each elector. The figures came from Gisborne electoral officer Dale Ofsoske in a report prepared for the...
Only 28 Māori in Tairāwhiti received a measles vaccination over a two year “massive” measles vaccination catch-up campaign. Health Minister Ayesha Verrall says the Ministry of Health had “good intentions” when it planned the campaign...
Close encounters highlighted Week 4 of Poverty Bay club hockey including a classic duel between last year’s men’s competition grand finalists. As predicted, defending champions YMP A and Lytton Old Boys Traktion produced the men’s game of the...
Ovation New Zealand Ltd is partnering with inMR Measure Ltd (inMR) to test the development of an intramuscular fat (IMF) lamb grading technology at its Gisborne plant in Dunstan Road. The concept has been developed with the support and co-funding...
The Motu Trails Charitable Trust will receive $90,000 from Trust Tairāwhiti over three years to boost their marketing and promotions to attract more visitors to the region. That was one of 11 applications approved in the trust’s latest funding...
The other new team in Premier Grade netball, Ngatapa, face a tough task tonight when they front up to in-form YMP in the YMCA. Turanga FM YMP racked up over 80 goals against newly promoted YMP (2) in the Pak’nSave competition at the weekend. YMP...
Netball Pak’nSave Gisborne Netball, SATURDAY, Premier/Prem Reserve games are 4 x 15-minute quarters. All other games are 4 x 10-minute quarters. Duty teams to put up the goal pads, set up team benches (courts 1 and 2) put out bins: NHEW Tein...
by Rockin’ Robin Luca Vita was first and his father Mike second in the feature race of Eastland Kart Club’s last meeting of its 10th season. Racing was to a high standard as drivers dealt with windy conditions on Sunday. It was their last...
Mixed results continued last week in the third night of BIZminton 2023, the business house badminton league. In the competitive grade, Cuzzys continued their winning form, defeating Mixed Combo four matches to two, while Unknowns remain at the top...
Monday, May 15 — President’s Pairs 3 North/South East/West Helen Kerisome, Pippa Williams 60.42 Vicki Nickerson, Frank Roach 61.31 Patricia Corson, Bette Parker 56.85 Graham Maclaurin, Gary Chalmers 52.98 Pamela Clay, Mark Fleming 49.70 Katrine...
A blood-and-guts performance earned Gisborne Boys’ High School second 15 victory over Napier Boys’ High in Gisborne on Saturday. Coach Mike Kora’s team opened their Super 8 campaign at home with a 13-7 win at the Rectory. Cody Tarei was the...
Thorn Parkes has played his first great knock in England. The former Poverty Bay cricket captain played a match-winning unbeaten knock of 105 off 104 balls on his 50-over debut for Three Bridges against Mayfield in the Sussex Premier League. The...
POVERTY BAY Poverty Bay Bowling Club members competed in a closing day rotational triples tournament as a farewell to their cyclone-damaged artificial turf. In rotational triples, players all have a turn in each position — skip, director and lead...
With the King’s Birthday Weekend local derby looming, Poverty Bay selectors believe they have a balanced and exciting squad to take on Ngāti Porou East Coast in Gisborne. A 44-man squad were named this week — 15 of them from the Premier club...