A VACANT Housing New Zealand home at Munro Street in Elgin was all but destroyed by fire in the early hours of this morning.
A specialist fire investigator has ...
Join a jingle of around 30 Christmas carol singers tonight as they progress around the CBD as part of Gisborne City Centre Vibrancy's late night shopping opport...
The lights went out in the whole of Wairoa yesterday, after a burst of wild weather caused significant damage to power lines.
At 7.30pm lines company Eastland ...
People seeking financial help from Gisborne Budget Moni Ora are $2.4 million in debt and this could continue to rise from the demands of Christmas.
Over the fes...
About 60 new jobs have been created for locals at Gisborne's new Mitre 10 store, which opens its doors to the public tomorrow.
Owner operator Geoff Taylor says ...
THE Royal New Zealand Navy offshore patrol vessel HMNZS Wellington was despatched yesterday to help a fisherman injured on a fishing vessel 700 nautical miles n...
Firefighters were called to the Three Rivers medical centre in Customhouse Street at midday yesterday after a person became trapped in the building's lift.
Fir...
Gisborne woman Lucy Berry celebrated her 100th birthday in style.
Over a two-week period of parties, she received a plaque from the Mayor and was peppered with ...
OTAGO University researchers are seeking more Gisborne-East Coast participants for a study on the effect of prescription charges.
Professor Pauline Norris said...
The mothballed Gisborne to Wairoa rail line could and should be reopened at a cost of at least $20 million, a long-awaited feasibility study says.
Part of the P...
LONGBOARD aficionados enjoyed clean waves and a great day at the fifth annual Tauawhi No Violence Surfing Classic on Saturday.
The contest raised $400 for the T...
TAIRAWHITI has the highest per capita rate of Sudden Unexplained Death in Infants (SUDI) in the country — a statistic Mokopuna Ora Safe Sleep Coordinator Kaniwa...
Through her love for aviation, former Gisborne woman Cathy Valliant (nee Wilson) found a new love and married him 10,000m in the air in a transtasman ceremony.
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Christians Against Poverty is encouraging people to get in touch if they are feeling overwhelmed by debt and bills in the lead-up to Christmas.
The organisatio...
A POST-mortem examination will be conducted tomorrow to determine how a Tokomaru Bay man died, as part of the ongoing homicide investigation that continues in t...
More Mahia rocket launches can be expected after rocket launch company Rocket Lab confirmed it is building a second launch pad that will enable it to launch two...
The New Zealand Transport Agency wants more feedback on open road speeds for State Highway 35, and has extended the submission date to tomorrow, December 20.
T...
The Gisborne Herald caught wind of a story that at first sounded like someone was telling porkies.
About 20 piglets were spotted wandering around Wainui on Mond...
LUCY Mill was Peter Reichenbach's earth-bound guardian angel.
Peter had multiple sclerosis (MS) — a so-far incurable disease of the central nervous system — for...
For the sixth year in a row Tokomaru Bay Heritage Trust is selling calendars to fund a huge restoration project of the town's wharf.
Trustees and friends of the...
Police plan to target drink-driving again over the festive season and they have appealed to the community to do the right thing and avoid it to keep themselves ...
The Emergency Services Coordinating Committee (ESCC) had a meeting with a difference at the weekend — on the bridge of the visiting cruise ship Explorer Dream. ...
'This is not the end, it's just the end of the beginning,' Labour deputy leader Kelvin Davis said yesterday at Tuahuru Marae in Mahia.
He chose to paraphrase th...
Gisborne Bowling Club team members took the honours in the Bowls New Zealand national interclub Division 1 centre preliminary tournaments at the weekend.
Both t...
Mental Health and Addiction tutor Claudia Maaka has a full class enrolled for the EIT Tairawhiti course in Gisborne starting next year, and she is running a sim...
The exchange of practices and a look into how another relatable indigenous culture deals with mental health was behind a trip to Rarotonga by EIT Tairawhiti Men...
The trailer suction dredge Kawatiri has been removing spoil from the harbour approaches since the middle of last month and the work is just about completed.
'K...
A shortage of stock continues to push up house prices here as increasing numbers of buyers compete for homes.
Latest data from the Real Estate Institute shows t...
WITH increasing millions of dollars circulating around the regional economy, Gisborne has once again been lauded as the nation's fastest growing economy and ASB...