A Gisborne man has been jailed for trying to set his dog on police, yelling "sic him" as the animal charged a constable.

Wiz Khalifa, Kode9 and Benny Tipene have been added to the line-up for New Year's Eve festival Rhythm & Vines.

Empire of the Sun are set to headline this year's Rhythm & Vines New Year's festival.

A Gisborne woman suffered serious facial injuries in what's been described as a "horrific" attack by two dogs.

A family at a Gisborne house got a nasty fright when a column oil heater exploded, showering sparks and hot oil, and sending clouds of smoke through their home.

Brandishing a ball point pen while trying unsuccessfully to force a Gisborne shop attendant to hand over the contents of her till has landed a teenager behind bars.

The infant siblings badly burned in a Gisborne car fire are likely to face dozens more operations and many weeks in hospital as they recover.

A student pilot was lucky to walk away from an emergency landing on an East Cape beach.

A Gisborne family are overnight multi-millionaires after winning more than $6.3 million on Lotto, including the $6m Powerball jackpot, on Saturday.

Two pre-schoolers who were trapped in a burning car in Gisborne remain hospitalised in a serious condition.

A relatively large earthquake struck off the coast of the North Island's East Coast overnight.

Gisborne Hospital can not rule out that more human body parts have been thrown in the garbage, after shocked rubbish workers discovered bone fragments at the dump.

Gisborne recycling workers made a shock discovery when human tissue, including a piece of bone, was found in a rubbish bag from the local hospital.

The dry weather is helping Gisborne's grape growers, who are praising the high quality of this year's harvest.

Overwhelmed is how Sass Mahuika says she felt on reaching the Cook plaza on top of Gisborne's landmark Kaiti Hill by wheelchair yesterday.

Court action may be the next step for kiwifruit growers following new research that showed the Psa strain that crippled the industry came from China.

A woman died in a head-on smash between people-mover and an articulated truck in Ormond township, near Gisborne, early this morning.

Up to 150 people walked into the hills flanking the Wharerata Hills south of Gisborne yesterday to pay homage to those who lost their lives working to give the region a railway link to Napier.

Few people outside Gisborne and perhaps her own sport would recognise the name of the sportswoman who was let off a drink-driving conviction and had her name suppressed.