‘This will make a huge difference in helping people and business recover’

Keanu Makiri and Finn Robertson are quiet achievers. Yet these Gisborne Boys’ High School cricketers — more than any of their teammates on Wednesday — saw the Blues and Royals through to the T20 Challenge Cup final next week. Robertson made 29...

Private Owen Rayner joined the New Zealand Army Reserve Force last year hoping to serve his country. He didn't have to wait long as last month Cyclone Gabrielle pounded much of the North Island, including his home region of Tairāwhiti. He was...

It was a particularly happy St Patrick's Day — to be sure, to be sure — today for Gisborne couple Diane and Don Oates. Fifty years ago, Diane and Don got married. Diane did not want a big fuss made but did tell The Gisborne Herald they had...

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer for men in Aotearoa and Tairāwhiti has adopted a global best-practice method to perform prostate biopsies. A prostate biopsy is a procedure to remove samples of suspicious tissue from a man's prostate. The...

The first kiwifruit of the season leave Gisborne by sea early next week on board the freighter C.S. Trust that went to anchor in Tūranganui-a-Kiwa/Poverty Bay yesterday. It is the first of eight scheduled kiwifruit shipments from here this season —...

A single vote tipped the scales in favour of the “no” camp in reply to this week's Gisborne Herald webpoll question “do you think the response to the cyclone damage is going well?”From a total of 210 votes, 80 people (38.1 percent) voted...

The “Farmy Army” has mobilisied again for another mission — helping in the massive clean-up of cyclone-ravaged properties in Gisborne and Hawke's Bay. The Federated Farmers volunteer group was dubbed the “Farmy Army” when it first rallied...

The Trust Tairāwhiti Rescue Helicopter and another rescue chopper from Hawke's Bay were called out last night after a report from a passing cruise ship about a possible body in the water off Gisborne's coast. Maritime New Zealand initiated the...

The Royal Commission into Abuse in Care has extended the closing date of survivor registrations to March 21.“For those survivors registered with the Royal Commission before this date, every effort will be made to hear your accounts by the end of...

The Poverty Bay Wairoa branch of the New Zealand Federation of Women’s Institutes presented some well-earned awards this week. Alison Crawford of the Poverty Bay Wairoa Federation presented Delys Hollamby (Puha Women’s Institute) a Long Service...

A man has been accused by the district council of unlawfully digging up and removing soil that was highly contaminated with asbestos, arsenic and lead from a property he wanted to develop. Yannis Kokkosis, 34, and his solely-directed company Gypsy...

CANOE Racing New Zealand has started a Givealittle page to help raise money for the hard-hit Poverty Bay Kayak Club that had floodwaters through their clubrooms in Anzac Park during Cyclone Gabrielle. The donation page will also raise money for the...

Bestriding Labour’s small conservative wing, MP for Napier Stuart Nash has been a valuable commodity for the party despite an occasional propensity for letting his mouth get away on him. He and colleagues Damien O’Connor, Kieran McAnulty and...

'Left us feeling we were walking an untouched part of the world’

The rescue chopper crews involved in the search for a possible body seen in the water off the Gisborne coast on Friday night are confident if there was someone in the water they would have seen them. The Trust Tairāwhiti Rescue Helicopter and...

Farmer surveys showing that estimated on-farm damages as a result of Cyclone Gabrielle stand at $80 million are another dramatic sign of the long, hard recovery this region faces. Fence damage is a major part of the costs, with thousands of...

Vicki Crosswell to assist with recovery in aftermath of cyclones

THE district's surfing fraternity are mourning the loss of one of their own who passed away while surfing at Makorori at the weekend. Don Pearson, aged in his early 60s, suffered a medical event while he was surfing and despite the best efforts of...

Bill Nighy is at his stunning, tightly-wound best in this poignant and powerful English-language “reimagining” of Akira Kurosawa’s much-loved 1952 movie Ikiru (To Live).He plays Mr Rodney Williams, a respected, no-nonsense English civil...

Andrews sends coach ‘typically Syd’ message

For those of us unashamedly hooked on politics, the daily fix actually has little to do with incumbent government policies that affect us all. It identifies more with the alternative front-runners who could replace the current leaders doing the...

It’s been reported that people are taking on second jobs to make ends meet. That shouldn’t be necessary. Instead, your primary employer should pay you enough to live so you don’t need to work two jobs. In just 40 years, we’ve degraded from...

Oh my goodness, going to the supermarket is like going to the dentist now! One doesn’t know how much you have to pay — it’s beginning to be a nightmare. I can’t believe how everything is going up, especially women’s products. Just...

THE police investigation into missing Gisborne man Joseph Ahuriri is entering a new phase with Search and Rescue (SAR) personnel extending their search into remote areas north of Bay View in Hawke's Bay. Mr Ahuriri has not been seen since early on...

SURF LIFESAVING

Police seized $40,000 in cash, 16 grams of methamphetamine and four firearms yesterday in Gisborne and Tauranga as a gangs and organised crime operation continues. Multiple search warrants were executed in both cities as part of Operation...

Recommendations from the ministerial inquiry into land use here are expected to be too “compelling” to ignore, the inquiry’s independent panel chair says. Speaking to The Gisborne Herald yesterday, panel chair Hekia Parata said the inquiry, run...

The region's roading connections continue to be put back together following cyclone damage. State Highway 2 access was restored last week south of Wairoa to the northern side of the Waikari River, Waka Kotahi regional manager Jaclyn Hankin...

The first tranche of insights and data tables from the Tairāwhiti Wellbeing Survey are available online. The survey ran for nine weeks from October 2022 with the aim of improving local data and better understand the wellbeing of the region. Trust...