Rhythm and Vines music festival organisers say they expect changes for the better after this summer's mayhem at BW campgrounds on New Year's Eve.

Scientists hope a proposal to drill the seabed off New Zealand's east coast will unlock the secrets behind earthquakes, such as one which wreaked havoc in Japan six years ago.

Eighteen of the young men arrested in Gisborne after mayhem at the beachside BW campground on New Year's Eve will face court action.

Three exhausted Gisborne men are lucky to be alive after the boat they were in overturned and they spent three hours in the sea in Poverty Bay before a chance rescue by a passing vessel.

The driver of a bulldozer jumped for his life yesterday afternoon when it tipped over and rolled down a bank in a forestry block on the Whakarau Road near Te Karaka.

The technology thought to have been used to instigate Gisborne's New Year's Eve riot is now being turned against the ringleaders.

Ben Sargent has been remembered as a fun-loving, sporting, and well-loved youngster with his whole life ahead of him.

A young man who died trying to jump from a light pole into a Gisborne swimming pool had spent the afternoon playing football and enjoying a few drinks with friends.

A 20 year-old man is dead after he tried jumping from a light pole into a swimming pool last night.

A young Auckland man is facing charges after he allegedly drove through a stop sign and hit a police car, causing a pile-up that wrote off three vehicles in Gisborne.

Two youths have been charged after police found 22 sheep crammed in a van in Gisborne this morning.

A sheep on an escape bid had a lucky break after it took a wrong turn and headed into the sea at Makorori.

Gisborne was never officially named Gisborne, the New Zealand Geographic Board has revealed.

Damian Webster was flying from Karamea on the West Coast to Nelson, when his Robinson 44 helicopter disappeared on Tuesday.

The search for a missing helicopter has entered its fourth day.

The family of a pilot who has been missing since his helicopter disappeared near Nelson two days ago are going through hell, his uncle says.

The search for a missing West Coast helicopter will resume this morning but bad weather has delayed search teams.

The search for a missing West Coast helicopter will resume tomorrow.

An administrator at Bunnings Warehouse who sat through the winter months at a desk in a warehouse that got down to 6C has been awarded compensation.

Police are trying to trace the movements of a car believed to be linked to a serious baseball bat assault that put three Gisborne people in hospital with serious injuries.

A young man with critical leg injuries lay trapped in his crashed ute for more than 12 hours after his vehicle crashed down a bank and into a tree.

A Gisborne chess club depicted in the New Zealand film The Dark Horse is recreating events in the movie by trying to raise funds to get its members to a national tournament.