GREEN Party MP for Ikaroa-Rawhiti Dr Elizabeth Kerekere has received her Covid-19 vaccination and unhesitantly recommends others do likewise.
“This vaccine is s...
Roger Faber is still waiting for the green light 18 months after the diagnosis he had stage three bowel cancer.
June is bowel cancer awareness month with the 20...
Countdown's new Gisborne store opened last week but parking is still hard to find.
However, a spokesperson for the supermarket said it hoped to start work on th...
POLICE are continuing investigations into a series of firearms incidents in Wairoa after more drive-by shootings.
Detective Senior Sergeant Kevin Ford told The ...
MORE than 700 birds winged their way to Ilminster Intermediate School over the weekend to show off their feathers at the 2021 Poverty Bay Bird Show.
Poverty Bay...
A crime prevention trust in Gisborne aims to double its vision over the next decade through more security cameras across the region.
The volunteer-run Gisborne...
Tairawhiti is enjoying some of the best weather in the country today but it will deteriorate over the next couple of days.
Met Service meteorologist April Clark...
Emergency services were called to Makorori hill in the early hours of Sunday morning after a car left State Highway 35 and crashed down a bank.
It happened at a...
Wainui Surf Life Saving Club's first-ever midwinter Polar Plunge event on Saturday was so successful organisers say it will become an annual fixture.
Club direc...
Saturday, June 12
■ Break the Silence: Shoulders Against Suicide.
Mental health and suicide are pressing issues within our society, join in to break the silenc...
A NEW automotive engineering programme on offer at the Eastern Institute of Technology could be a job saver for many mechanics.
The New Zealand Certificate in E...
Kaiti homeowners have been asked to join Gisborne District Council’s efforts to reduce stormwater inflow into the wastewater network by checking their gully tra...
Work has finished to permanently remove the right-hand turn on to State Highway 35 from The Esplanade.
A new island has been installed at the intersection and ...
When former Gisborne Boys’ High School student Mustafa “Mussie” Sheikh started to learn the piano he was given a cardboard cut-out with a piano keyboard drawn o...
POLICE officer Justin Moore has been running up the Titirangi/Kaiti Hill stairs and Manutahi Hill in Ruatoria as he prepares for the Step Up Challenge fundraise...
Gisborne Hospital nurses take their case to the public for higher pay during their eight hour strike last week. New Zealand Nurses Organisation lead advocate Da...
The Tolaga Bay First Responders and a crew from the Trust Tairawhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter worked together on Saturday to help a man who needed medical ass...
Drivers in Tairawhiti have the third-longest wait in the country to sit practical tests to get their restricted or full driver's licence.
They face an average 8...
DESPITE having picked up the guitar only relatively recently, Teifi Clarke took the War Memorial Theatre stage with confidence to perform her own song before a ...
More than 1000 offenders and ex-prisoners have been given a second chance through a driving programme here but new funding is needed if it is to continue.
The N...
For over three decades Peter Gibson was a fixture at Lytton High School — a guiding figure for the young people who walked through the school gates at one of th...
A murky substance was discovered flowing down Waikanae Creek near Customhouse St on Saturday.
Gisborne District Council's pollution team put a boom out on the c...
The country's 24 community law centres have a vital role to play in society and the Tairawhiti branch is no exception, says Labour MP Tangi Utikere.
The first-t...
People buying new electric and hybrid vehicles will be able to get up to $8625 back from the Government through a rebate scheme announced yesterday.
From July 1...
Tucked away in boxes in the basement of Susan Holmes’ home are award-winning designs that once took centre stage. Susan spoke with Sophie Rishworth about he...
PEOPLE wanting to comment on the Tairawhiti representation review have only one week left to do so.
The review looks at the total number of councillors there sh...
A PYGMY sperm whale washed up on Opoutama Beach in Mahia yesterday.
Local residents discovered it while walking their dogs and contacted the Department of Conse...
A significant majority think the Council should be able to decide where vape products can be sold around Tairawhiti, according to The Gisborne Herald’s weekly ...
If all the blood vessels in your brain were joined, they could wrap two-and-a-half-times around the Earth — about 100,000 kilometres.
This and other fascinating...
Iwi claims to customary marine titles and rights for the Mahia foreshore and seabed can be expected to be fast-tracked following Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations...