The woman most seriously injured of seven hurt in Friday's head-on car crash near Gisborne remains critically ill in the intensive care unit at Waikato Hospital.

Two children were among those injured in a serious crash following a police pursuit in Gisborne this morning.

Wairoa's sole service 'acted unprofessionally'.

When she saw her little girl alive and well, after fearing she had drowned, Ali Wharehinga thought she was looking at a ghost.

An 11-year-old girl has gone missing while collecting shellfish at a Gisborne beach.

Looking at buying a rental property? According to realestate.co.nz there's some attractive investment opportunities in some unlikely areas.

Manawatu-Wanganui are the best performing regions for rental property investment, according to analysis by Realestate.co.nz.

A disabled Gisborne man has been arrested after allegedly deliberately driving into a marae, before attacking a passer by's car and threatening to set himself alight at a petrol station.

The Rhythm and Vines festival kicked off in Gisborne yesterday with major changes to alcohol policy after riots broke out last year.

Rivers have dropped and the water has drained out of most of the affected homes, but has left silt, ruined carpets and interior wreckage in some of the low-lying riverside houses in Gisborne.

Fine dining is just one fun way to keep busy in Gizzy, writes Megan Singleton.

A Gisborne woman who caused life-changing injuries to her infant daughter while berating her partner has been jailed for four years.

Black market fishing operations have been shut down and assets seized in operations around the Hawkes Bay and Gisborne today.

Just a year before he allegedly shot Douglas Witeri between the eyes and killed him, Troy Vincent McHugh shot another man who owed him money, a jury was told yesterday.

A woman's claims that she assisted murder accused Troy McHugh to avoid conviction for murdering Douglas Witeri last year were simply drug-fuelled bravado, her lawyer said.

A Gisborne policeman who came to the aid of a lost boy found himself saving the child's grandmother from a house fire.

An SPCA prosecution against Richard Hamilton McKee, 34, and James Robert Boydey Manukau, 27, continued in Gisborne District Court yesterday.

A provincial rugby league competition has been pushed to the brink of extinction partly because of sideline and onfield abuse.

Two small quakes struck just northwest of Gisborne last night.

As well as her work with Pultron and as its managing director, Bronwen Holdsworth has made a significant contribution to the cultural and artistic development of Gisborne.

Scientists have found around 766 individual methane gas flares off the coast of Gisborne - a “major advance” for science and a first for New Zealand.

A grandmother risked her own life to save six children from her burning home in Gisborne last night, with the family 'moments from catastrophe'.

Organisers of the NZ surf lifesaving championships in Gisborne blasted through the penultimate day's programme yesterday in a bid to keep ahead of the storm expected to slam into the area.

There were emotional scenes on the East Coast north of Gisborne yesterday afternoon as divers located and recovered missing Malaysian man Kuan Loon Loh.

An English tourist jumped in the water to try and save a man who jumped off the wharf at Tolaga Bay - but he was swept away by a wave.