After more than 2200 "shares" on Facebook and countless letters to the editor, the controversial statue at the Cook Plaza on Kaiti Hill remains a hot topic.

One person has been killed and another seriously hurt in a crash in Gisborne.

We reveal the personalities and properties that make Gisborne one of our most successful Olympic towns.

State Highway 2 linking Opotiki and Gisborne was closed this morning due to a large slip in the Waioeka Gorge.

Hawke's Bay Regional Council has been asked to ensure that any deal to restore the rail link between Napier and Wairoa retains the goal of extending north to Gisborne.

A 43-year-old man is facing charges after a group dog attack in Gisborne put a young boy in hospital with head and leg injuries.

The 5-year-old boy hospitalised after being attacked by four dogs will be going home today, a Gisborne hospital spokeswoman confirmed.

New details have emerged about the charges being laid against the owner of the four dogs that attacked a young boy in Gisborne.

The owner of four dogs that attacked a boy in Gisborne yesterday says he is "shattered" by what happened.

An inspirational drama teacher who travelled from Gisborne to England to see actor Jeremy Irons perform in a play had a welcome surprise at its conclusion.

A Givealittle page has been set up for a woman seriously hurt in a Good Friday car crash in Gisborne which landed seven people in hospital.

The 4-year-old boy who was in serious condition after a head-on car crash near Gisborne on Good Friday remains in hospital.

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.

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

A Gisborne woman stood dumbstruck with tears rolling down her cheeks when she heard she had won Lotto's Big Wednesday not once, but twice.

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.