With three community cases of the more infectious South African strain of the coronavirus now linked to a case identified at the Pullman Hotel managed isolation facility, the Government is once again ...
The results of Gisborne District's Council's preliminary work for the 2021-2031 Long-Term Plan (LTP) come before councillors tomorrow in the form of its draft estimates, for incorporation in the draft...
The Covid cloud that hung over our near-normal summer burst on Sunday with news of a community case of Covid-19 in Northland.
It didn't change anything in terms of the nation's vulnerability to incur...
It is stark notice to Gisborne District Council and to the extent of our housing crisis that the group tasked with social development in our region has not only identified housing and financial disadv...
Fixing New Zealand's housing crisis is a priority, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said yesterday as the Government revealed a Public Housing Plan that identified where 8000 new state houses promised in...
Updated electoral population figures from the Local Government Commission continue the council's guidance last year that if the number of GDC councillors remains at 13, a Maori ward or wards will be r...
Uncertainty over implications for our District Council ward structure from the introduction of Maori wards is a legitimate concern for rural residents wanting to be sure they continue to have separate...
Our columnist today starts out with the apparent premise that the “scales” of local politics are equal for Maori and Pakeha; they are not.
Maori are only now getting a fair hearing and traction with G...
The Government has responded to the heightened pandemic dangers posed by new, faster-spreading strains of Covid-19 by bolstering pre-departure and border defences with new test requirements.
However, ...
The political and social upheaval in the United States as it prepares for the transition to a new president in eight days would be unfathomable if we did not have the experience of the Trump presidenc...