Gisborne superstock racer Tyler James (above, on the left), on board 89G, produced the best of the ‘G’ car results from drivers who raced out of town over the Easter weekend. James finished runner-up in the Hawke’s Bay Superstock Championships...
Gisborne results from the Easter Classic basketball tournament in Tauranga. DAY 1 Under 12 Boys A Grade, Pool B, Round 1: Gisborne A 34 Waikato Black 36. U12 Girls Grade, R1: Gisborne 26 Waikato Red 20; R2: Gisborne 25 Tauranga 28. U14 Boys A Grade...
The tough economic environment being felt by many local businesses has provisional numbers to it with the Infometrics December 2023 quarterly economic monitor, released on the Trust Tairāwhiti website last week, showing a 1.8 percent contraction in...
by Samantha Holdsworth In these times of concern and solidarity with the rainbow community in Gisborne, following the protests against the Rainbow Storytime initiative and the vandalism of the rainbow crosswalk, I feel compelled to add my support...
Building 400 new state homes in Kenepuru — CANCELLED; 400 new state homes in Onehunga — CANCELLED; 1000s of other planned state homes — CANCELLED It sounds like the valuable and irreplacable land that Kāinga Ora currently owns will be sold...
Community invited to help engineers decide the best way forward at state highway’s hotspot. Engineers working at the Devil’s Elbow on the Wairoa-Napier highway are considering all the options available for how to repair falling debris during...
by Ben Ulisse, Wairoa Star East Coasters should watch for tsunami warning signs, says Kate Boersen of Illuminate Science. She was speaking at a presentation in Māhia last week on the potential threats posed to the upper North Island by tsunamis and...
Last Tuesday was the 77th anniversary of the first of two severe earthquakes that occurred off the coast of Tairāwhiti Gisborne in 1947. This earthquake generated one of the largest tsunamis in New Zealand’s historical records. It was observed...
Gisborne’s Trust Tairāwhiti rescue helicopter joined the major search for a crew member off a commercial fishing boat who was reported missing overboard off the coast of Hawke’s Bay on Monday night. The emergency services were notified around...
A man was checked over by a St John ambulance crew after the ute he was driving left State Highway 35 late Good Friday morning and hit a tree. The crash happened at around 11.30am between Thomas Road and Waihau (Loisels) Road. There was no report...
Weekend celebration sets up Gisborne Thistle for the next 100 years, says president.
The latest weather outlooks from the two main agencies both pick below average rainfall for the Gisborne-East Coast region. Rainfall totals for the district are likely to be near-to-below-normal (MetService) this month, while Niwa says rainfall for...
Fourteen Covid-19 deaths were recorded by Health NZ Te Whatu Ora last week, and none were in Gisborne, as the country comes out of the fifth wave of the virus. Health NZ reported there were 33 active cases in Gisborne as at midnight on Sunday. There...
Gisborne’s disabled community begin campaign for council to renew strategy which expired 10 years ago.
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It was not an April Fool’s Day joke; thousands of New Zealanders have been given more disposable income with which to start the new financial year, but owners of electric vehicles won’t remember the day so fondly. According to Stuff, those on...
Dana Kirkpatrick MP for East Coast It has been another busy month in Government and I am looking forward to spending some time in the electorate over the month of April — we don’t sit in the House in the school holidays, so it allows us time to...
Please don’t tar us all with the same brush because we call ourselves “Christians”. The God I worship is a God of love — of anybody and everybody, irrespective of gender, sex, race or creed. That’s what Easter is all about — His love in...
On the issue of “rainbow crossings”, there have been strong feelings expressed on both sides, in some cases somewhat intemperately. Whatever one’s views on this particular issue, one thing most of us can agree on is that rainbow crossings...
Kia ora whānau, I know a lot of us are feeling unsettled, upset and angry at the violence against our rainbow whānau. Here is a chance to make a real difference and help Rainbow Storytime take the bullies to court! Rainbow Storytime is taking...
This is a very emotive headline but is the result of a new Government refusing to spend money on what we need. That money wasn’t to be wasted by Labour, which built houses we own. It is just the start of yet another #nznationalparty Govt selling...
by Marilyn Callahan Gisborne Trampoline Club athletes brought back six gold medals, nine silver and one bronze from the Icon club champs in Auckland. It was the club members’ first competition of the year, and 10 of them took part. Competing in...
The Blues and Royals wrote a small but noteworthy chapter in cricket history last week. The Jett Whitaker-led Blues won the all-Gisborne Boys’ High School T20 Challenge Cup final versus the previously unbeaten Admiralty by five runs to claim the...
Gisborne secondary school students shared kōrero inspired by the theme Te Taura Tangata — The Rope of Unity — at this year’s regional heat of the Race Unity Speech Awards. The Speech Awards have uplifted and supported the voices of rangatahi...
More houses have come on the market than ever this past summer, says a Wairoa real estate agent. General interest and engagements per listing for the Hawke’s Bay region alone are up nearly 26 percent, while for the rest of New Zealand, it was up...
Two North Island rescue helicopters, including this region’s, worked in tandem in response to a serious motor vehicle accident near Waihau Bay in the Bay of Plenty on Saturday. The two-vehicle accident was reported to NZ Police at 2.35pm. The...
In the last three months of 2023, the Tairāwhiti economy saw little change from the previous two quarters. The regional economic development agency says the subdued economy reflects the lingering impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle, household spending...
A dismal Easter and wetter last half of the month has eased the dryness of local soils. Easter Weekend brought patchy wind and rain, but not much of the wet stuff, and March ended with less than half its normal rainfall. Rainfall totalled just short...
Gisborne Lego User Group used an “A”-word different than the famous song from The Lego Movie to describe the second Te Tairāwhiti Brick Show at Ilminster Intermediate School hall at the weekend . . . “amazing”. Awesome would have been...
The price increases for the country’s Great Walks announced last week do not include Lake Waikaremoana. Department of Conservation director of heritage and visitors Cat Wilson said DoC had become aware that some information released last week was...
Police cracked down as promised on the “invade” of Gisborne at the weekend by “boy racers” from other parts of the country, with 10 of the racers’ cars impounded and more than 50 infringement notices issued.
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Labour MP Camilla Belich’s bill, drawn out of the Parliamentary biscuit tin last week, would permit employees to discuss their pay with co-workers. If passed, the Employment Relations (Employee Remuneration Disclosure) Amendment Bill will allow...
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