Criticism of a proposal to hike fees for property developments in outlying areas of Gisborne, and reduce what is now a uniform fee for developments in areas of the city with existing infrastructure, h...
How then to review the summer just been?
Weather-wise it was in most ways a typical Gisborne summer, with fewer really hot days than normal but a good average mean daytime temperature. A long tail to ...
IF a council has a development levy, on face value it seems fair that a greenfield site — where the council invests in new roading, reserves, water, wastewater and stormwater infrastructure — should a...
IT is seen today as having laid the foundation for modern democracy. While the charter had nothing to do with the rights of ordinary people, it was an attempt to hold the monarch accountable to custom...
Aimed at getting people thinking about and expressing what makes New Zealand special, to help inform work and views on alternative flag designs, most people have been posting comments in jest or in an...
Declined during deliberations on the three days of 10-year plan submissions last month, the proposed joint Air NZ marketing campaign specifically for Gisborne — targeted at the Wellington route, where...
Three attacks on three separate continents on Friday show how changes in tactics by organisations like Islamic State can create even more threats to the civilised world.
They are calling it the new fa...
The latest developments in the inter-party warfare have seen Conservative Party leader Colin Craig dismissed by a newly formed board, the legality of which he strongly challenges.
The issue has yet to...
The fact 77 percent of the cost savings from choosing a small Australian roading business over established operator Fulton Hogan accrue to the NZ Transport Agency might make councillors think twice be...
A debate over whether to name Makaraka an urban growth area has held up adoption of the district’s urban development strategy . . . the council could use this time to revisit its broadbrush offering o...
A correspondent this week said there were suggestions council-controlled Gisborne Holdings Ltd “adopt the Eastland Group model, with a commercial board of mostly out-of-town directors” — and asked how...
It would have been a brave Eastland Community Trust to say ‘No’ this week to final approval for Eastland Group to build a 20 megawatt geothermal plant at Kawerau in the Bay of Plenty.
The $120 million...
In a stunning coup, Malcolm Turnbull has rolled Tony Abbott to become Australia’s fifth prime minister in eight years.
Australian politics can be brutal — just witness the turmoil in the Labor camp as...
NEW Zealand is set to have five new free trade partners, including the largest and third largest economies in the world, after five years of negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership concluded in ...
TWO major decisions lie ahead of Gisborne District Council at its meeting tomorrow. One, whether to implement a joint management agreement with Te Runanganui o Ngati Porou for the Waiapu catchment, is...
Captain James Cook is one of the world’s most famous navigators and explorers. In three voyages, from 1768 to 1779, he and his crews sailed across thousands of miles of a largely uncharted Pacific Oce...
Ngati Porou waiata rang throughout the Gisborne District Council chamber yesterday before and after councillors agreed to proceed with a joint management agreement (JMA) for the severely degraded Waia...
Prime Minister John Key could have been excused for heaving a big sigh of relief when he landed back in New Zealand. Nothing he is facing here could match the turmoil of the Middle East.
The horror se...
Gisborne District Council has an interesting dilemma on its hands as it considers the sort of constitution it should adopt for an enlarged Gisborne Holdings Ltd.
On the one hand it wants GHL to act co...
Trade unionism in New Zealand farewells a sharp and effective advocate today with the retirement of Council of Trade Unions president Helen Kelly.
She leaves a movement that has lost considerable stre...