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Saving the Raukūmara

Raukūmara Pae Maunga restoration project is three years into operation and the 1080 application has started. Kaupapa Maori reporter Matai O’Connor spoke to the team to learn more about what is going on . . . The biggest aerial 1080 operation in...

Defending champs YMP A v arch-rivals LOB

A replay of the 2022 local men’s hockey grand final is on offer at Harry Barker Reserve tonight. Defending champions YMP A take on fierce rivals Lytton Old Boys Traktion. Their 7.30pm clash on the Hain Farming Turf promises to be one of the...

Tough Super 8 opener for Gisborne Boys’ High

Gisborne v Napier is a special game. And tomorrow the Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 open their Super 8 campaign at home against their oldest traditional foes on Rectory No. 1 at midday. GBHS head coach Duane Hihi’s team go into tomorrow off...

Derby a daunting intro for YMP 2

Ngatapa got a tough welcome to Premier Grade netball against Waikohu this week and tomorrow YMP 2 will step up in their first game against the best team in the competition so far — clubmates YMP 1. Round 2 of the Gisborne Pak’nSave competition...

Safe hands . . . and brilliant reflexes

Mick Locker was Eastern Union’s last line of defence in their historic Central Districts League success in 1967. It was the first time a Gisborne team had competed in an outside league and the title win was a major stepping stone to national...

No weak teams: Week 2 Coast comp wins to Hikurangi, Tokararangi, TVC

Rugby on the Coast is in good nick a fortnight in. In Week 2 of the H Blackbee Contractors Ngati Porou East Coast men’s competition, last year’s champions Tihirau Victory Club posted seven tries to one at home in beating Ruatoria City 45-7...

Gisborne man wins open men’s division in the Huntly Half Marathon

Mike Robinson is a man on the run. He ran to second in the half-marathon at the First Light Marathon in Gisborne in January. He ran to first in the half-marathon at the Tarawera Ultramarathon at Rotorua in February. And last weekend he ran to...

Support for today, building for tomorrow

by Kiri Allan MP for East Coast We’ve just released Budget 2023, which sets out more support for today and the next steps in our plan to build for tomorrow. I wanted to make sure that you’d heard about a few key initiatives, including a cost of...

Gisborne leading NZ's building efforts, but housing situation still a crisis

Gisborne is leading the nation’s house-building efforts as nearly every other region sees a decline, but the impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle mean the region’s housing situation is still in crisis. New statistics show 32 new dwellings were consented...

First in-person admission to bar since Covid pandemic

For the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic two new solicitors have been admitted in person to the bar in Gisborne. In a sign of things returning to normal, Daniel Cole and Angelina Kosenko were admitted as barristers and solicitors of the High...

Budget gives GDC access to $20m a year for roading projects

Cyclone recovery needs and Maori housing and justice needs are the major winners here in the Government’s Budget announcements. Yesterday’s Budget focuses much on the cost of living and health costs (scrapping the $5 prescription fee) but there...

Advice for first responders from mental health advocate

Retired All Blacks star winger Sir John Kirwan had a chance to express his appreciation of the work of the country’s first responders when he was in town this week. He visited the Eastland Helicopter Rescue Trust (EHRT) hangar — home to the...

Neighbour gives evidence in High Court Walker and Grace murder trial

"I shot the wrong person! I shot the wrong person!” That’s what a neighbour of murder-accused George Hallet Walker says she heard him saying when he and his partner Mercedies Grace arrived home in Walker’s distinctive grey ute moments after...

‘Tell yourself that you’re awesome’: JK's message while in Gisborne

Sir John Kirwan says another knighted All Black, Sir Michael Jones, saved his life during an All Blacks tour of Argentina. The story was one of the most attention-grabbing anecdotes the All Black great and mental health advocate told in Gisborne...

Wind and rain on the way tomorrow

Another bout of rain and wind is expected to hit the Gisborne-East Cape region overnight and tomorrow with a subtropical low moving south-east over the North Island. MetService says there is a moderate confidence of warning amounts of rain about the...

Jury hears details of events unfolding on night of Titoki Street shooting

Moments before being gunned down on Titoki Street, Maraea Smith put her arm around her sister and pulled her to the ground. They had just heard a gunshot and Smith wanted to protect her sibling. Smith counted to 10 then told her sister they should...