First Fresh staged a highly successful and entertaining ‘Freshies' awards function recently that drew a near-capacity crowd to their packhouse turned presentati...
The Galloways of Ormond won the supreme honour on top of two category titles at the “Freshies” growers awards for 2020.
For the second year running, the NZ Frui...
Wellbeing workshops for grape growers and winemakers will be held across the country from later this month with Gisborne's turn coming on May 3.
The Ministry fo...
Eastland Network assets and planning manager Mikaere Ngarimu has been named as a finalist at the 11th annual New Zealand Energy Excellence Awards.
Mr Ngarimu i...
Newly-appointed Cabinet minister and East Coast MP Kiri Allan says $34 million of new funding will create more than 400 jobs in ecology, restoration, trapping, ...
Despite the Covid-19 lockdown, consumers here spent more than $423 million on credit and debit cards last year.
New figures from Paymark, which processes about ...
Christmas shoppers are encouraged to buy local this week, after new figures show people here spent $9.3 million in recent Black Friday sales.
This Thursday is l...
Eastland Port exported just over 280,000 tonnes of logs in November despite weather delays that cost 63 hours of loading time, and 50 hours of anchor testing.
T...
The Westpac Tairawhiti Business Excellence Awards will return in 2021.
The awards have been held four times in this region, the last time in 2018, and were not ...
Eastland Group and Trust Tairawhiti have set their first targets on the way towards a zero carbon economy for the Tairawhiti region.
In July 2019, Gisborne-base...
“We're going into the business of mass-producing Endeavour models,” jokes White Pointer Boats owner Rex Briant.
He is proud of the two 200kg aluminium Endeavour...
Tatapouri Bay is quickly becoming a destination rather than a stop-off on journeys around the East Coast.
The coastal campground run by Nathan Foon and Shanti P...
2020 has been challenging for many within our local business community. Riding the highs and lows of a pandemic has definitely tested resilience and the surviva...
An item on the radio a couple of weeks ago caught my attention — the Hon Michael Wood, the new Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety, stated that one of t...
The future of a forestry training programme here is secure for the next two years thanks to funding from the Government's One Billion Trees Programme.
Eastland ...
The purchase of three Gisborne properties as part of a new private equity fund’s multimillion investment into SunGold kiwifruit has been hailed as a “really go...
A total of $400,000 has been invested into boosting the number of people taking up apprenticeships here via the Regional Apprenticeships Initiative (RAI).
This ...
The 2021 grape vintage gets under way today with the first of what's set to be another very good vintage with the right amounts of moisture and heat providing g...
Quick action and a collaborative regional approach to economic recovery are pointed to as major reasons for a significant turnaround in the region's unemploymen...
The flow of shipping through Eastland Port looks solid for the rest of January with six log ships and a freighter to take the second squash shipment of the seas...
Winemakers and grape growers enjoyed the company of a master wine taster, here to try the region's wines and meet some of the producers.
“I decided along with m...
An extra $50 million to $100 million of investment is set to enter the kiwifruit industry, with Gisborne earmarked for about a third of that.
The private equity...
Te Araroa and East Cape Road are special, sacred places for local people and the thousands of tourists who visit every year.
For Manaia Ngata, although he left ...
The general election in October saw a landslide for the Labour Government and this region went from blue to red. Jacinda Ardern’s strong leadership through many...
Trust Tairawhiti and the local Regional Business Partners (RBP) team have been on hand to offer support in what has been a difficult year for many businesses.
T...
A Ballance Street Village pizzeria has made the leap from a shipping container to a permanent home . . . and it's more than just the neighbourhood that has noti...
Being a Maori-owned tourism business sets Maunga Hikurangi Experience apart, says Ngati Porou Holding Company programme manager Brett Johnston.
As a Maori-owned...
Rifle barrel makers True Flite NZ Ltd already export to several markets and are now looking to increase their domestic footprint with a move to retail and more ...
With construction activity in the Gisborne region full speed ahead — to the extent that non-residential consents doubled in value to $53 million over the p...
Paul Brown had to really do some juggling to line everything up when he signed his company Advanced Tree Solutions (ATS) on to be part of the Tairawhiti Economi...