Gisborne District Council has not given up trying to bring changes to the Government's Three Waters reforms.
Mayor Rehette Stoltz says she is continuing to advo...
A Gisborne home remains unoccupied more than a month on from the rain event that hit the district.
The owners are in alternative accommodation supported by thei...
A family in a home in Taruheru Crescent fled their house last night after a small fire started in the home's switchboard after water dripped on to it from a nea...
A review of Te Papa Tipu Taunaki o te Tairāwhiti, the Tairāwhiti Resource Management Plan, is under way.
The plan is the combined planning document that holds a...
A third positive wastewater test for Covid-19 in the space of nine days has been confirmed for Tairāwhiti.
The sample was taken on Monday and the Ministry of He...
Eastland Port is the proud owner of New Zealand's first electric water truck, one of the largest road-legal electric trucks in the country.
The water truck is d...
There was about as much likelihood of his client turning up that day as a tumbleweed, counsel Elliott Lynch told Gisborne District Court. His client had abscond...
School is nearly out for retiring Te Wharau principal Steve Berezowski.
After 45 years in education, Mr Berezowski is ready to spend more time with family, on ...
PLAYING BALL: Te Karaka Area School pupils enjoying the opening of new basketball hoops this week. A total of six new basketball hoops were opened in Gisborne a...
Wairoa's Covid vaccination numbers are slowly creeping up.
As at last Thursday evening, 73 percent of Wairoa's eligible population was fully vaccinated and 83 p...
CYCLIST and fundraiser extraordinaire David Cunningham found himself turning around and coming to Gisborne when he couldn't get into Auckland.
The Paraparaumu r...
QSM HONOUR FOR JUDY: Gisborne community campaigner and music patron Judy Livingston receives her Queen's Service Medal from New Zealand Governor General Dame Ci...
A Gisborne café has ended its plans to host “events” for unvaccinated people.
Far East Coffee last week announced it intended to operate with vaccine pass requi...
Nutritious kai and kōrero have proved “ka pai” with tamariki from some of the region's most remote schools.
As part of the region's manawakura approach to the H...
THE authenticity and sustainability of Gisborne Airport’s new terminal has been recognised in the 2021 New Zealand Architecture Awards.
Gisborne Airport was nam...
TAIRĀWHITI police have encountered no issues so far in the transition from Alert Level 2 to the new traffic light system regime.
Gisborne and the East Coast be...
POLICE urge people buying second-hand goods online to be wary of a proliferation of scams in the lead-up to Christmas.
The warning follows a case in Hawke's Bay...
THE first of the new 465-tonne mobile log loading cranes installed at Eastland Port by port logistics company ISO has been loading for about 10 days now and is ...
A pen of speckled park heifers were sold at the last monthly cattle fair of the year at the Matawhero saleyards yesterday.
The unusual line seen at the Gisborn...
Annoyed a shop keeper refused to sell him alcohol, a man went on a rampage ramming four vehicles, including a police one, which was subsequently written off, Gi...
With confirmed cases of Covid-19 expected in Tairāwhiti soon, it is important the community knows what to expect and that systems and processes are in place to ...
Young people need to make sure their voices are heard at policy level, says Kiri Allan's Youth MP for the East Coast.
Gisborne Girls' High School Year 13 studen...
Wainui Beach School has installed a new sign at Wainui Beach to alert the public to the presence of little blue penguins in the area.
The school paid for the s...
Hard work has paid off for a Gisborne man named as the recipient of an inaugural forestry scholarship.
Peter Kapene has been awarded a $6000 grant to assist wi...
FIREFIGHTERS were called to the Rebel Sports store in Peel Street late yesterday morning after a fluorescent light fitting in the centre of the store malfunctio...
MAKORORI residents will be disappointed after Gisborne District Council's regulatory hearing committee was told a proposed bylaw restricting vehicles from beach...
THE Pasifika community in Tairāwhiti has reached the 100 percent milestone for first vaccination doses and 90 percent for second.
The targets were met on Decemb...
Tairāwhiti housing advocates anticipate an increase in homelessness because some emergency accommodation providers are mandating vaccination certificates for th...
Tairāwhiti is set to get two new mental health services next year.
The services, one for youth and the other offering early intervention for those with mental ...
A disabled man accused of sexually abusing a pregnant teenager about 20 years ago has been acquitted in Gisborne District Court.
The 60 year-old man’s jury tria...