Residents of houses near the port are enduring noise, vibration and dust conditions one person has compared to an earthquake and an acoustics specialist says is harmful to neighbours.
Concerns raised ...
A staff member on Gisborne's mental health ward was severely assaulted by a patient, prompting a review that found violence on the ward may be regularly going unreported.
It led to WorkSafe issuing a...
A happy canine congregation at Kaiti Beach, pig hunting dogs worrying livestock and the not-so-puppy-love side of dog control.
There are many “tails” of dogs in Tairāwhiti and promoting an environmen...
If a natural disaster hit Gisborne in the near future, it would take emergency responders three hours to set up the coordination centre.
That's because Tairawhiti's civil defence team doesn't have a p...
Five councillors walked out of the Gisborne District Council chambers after a resident refused to stop his tirade against Covid-19 vaccinations during a public meeting.
Yesterday's meeting was adjour...
Some heart attack patients may be bumped from intensive care beds as medical staff rethink room for Covid-19 cases ahead of the virus reaching Gisborne.
The plan at Hauora Tairāwhiti District Health B...
Spring, a blustery norwester and some of the largest sediment deposits in the world can make for some unpleasant days in and around Ruatoria. Alice Angeloni reports . . .
It’s a hot, sunny day, b...
Free fast food, financial incentives and “methodically banging on every single door in Tairāwhiti” have been thrown up as ideas of how to get more people vaccinated against Covid-19.
An online commun...
Tairāwhiti DHB's boss has embraced the community-led fundraising campaign for a mobile vax clinic on the East Coast.
Hauora Tairawhiti chief executive Jim Green has also defended the lack of vaccinat...
Donations are flooding in for a community-led mobile clinic that will go door-to-door vaccinating Ngāti Porou against Covid-19, though Māori health providers on the Coast say government funding is ava...