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Basil?! We’re taking the show to Gisborne

Faulty Towers The Dining Experience comes to Gisborne Tatapouri Sports Fishing Club tomorrow and boasts a strong local connection. This immersive tribute to the hit BBC TV series Fawlty Towers was devised and written by Alison Pollard-Mansergh...

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Grants of over $170k approved: Trust funding for cultural, sport, technology groups

More than $170,000 in community grants has been approved by Trust Tairāwhiti in its latest funding round. Cultural, sporting and tech initiatives across Gisborne and the East Coast are on the list of recipients. Two roopu have been selected for the...

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Places still available at brain health workshop

Registrations are still open for Thursday’s Ways to Keep your Brain Healthy workshop run by Alzheimers Gisborne Tairāwhiti. The two-hour workshop is a non-clinical presentation that is easy to understand with activities that make it interactive...

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Yachtsman plans to leave after Christmas

The young Auckland solo sailor Seth van Mechelen and his yacht Luna look set to continue their journey south from Gisborne early in the new year. Gisborne Coastguard towed the disabled yacht and 21-year-old Seth into Eastland Port after the big...

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Halfway there: Part of Tolaga Bay wharf to be reopened

Tolaga Bay Wharf will be opened to its halfway point by the end of February next year, the District Council says. The wharf has been closed since January, due to impacts from Cyclone Hale. At the time it was assessed for user safety and...

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Call for Crown Research Institutes to stop lobbying, address ‘real needs’

A Tairāwhiti environmental research group is calling out as “hacks” both sides of a scientific argument about pine trees. This week, scientists working for AgResearch, a Crown Research Institute, and fertiliser company Ravensdown have argued...

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Gisborne Herald

22 Dec 2023

News

Judge rules Urewera hut destruction decision-making process unlawful

A High Court judge says the iwi managers of Te Urewera and the Crown acted unlawfully in a decision that led to the demolition of more than half a network of backcountry huts. Twenty-nine of an overall 53 huts in Te Urewera were burned down last...

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Te Ihi o te Rā harnessing the power of the sun

Gisborne’s horizon just got greener with the launch of Te Ihi o te Rā, for now the largest operational solar farm in New Zealand. Spanning 6.1 hectares and equippped with 8000 bi-facial solar panels, the 5.2-megawatt Te Ihi o te Rā solar farm...

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Pre-election roadie around the Coast

RNZ’s First Up reporter Leonard Powell went on a road trip from Whakatāne around the East Cape to test the tone of the East Coast’s towns, pre-election. This is the fourth story from that series. The Home Industries section at the A&P...

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RMA breaches alleged at Ngakoroa Road forest

Another of the region’s forestry companies is facing prosecution by Gisborne District Council for alleged poor harvesting practices said to have come to light after storm events in March of last year. A case against Forwood Forest Management...

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EIT students glad to be back on campus

Getting back on to campus for staff and students at EIT | Te Pūkenga Tairāwhiti has provided a welcome sense of normality in the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle, says campus manager Waata Shepherd. Staff and students were ready to come back by the...

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Nats name Kirkpatrick as East Coast candidate

Gisborne executive and communications professional Dana Kirkpatrick has been selected as the National Party’s East Coast candidate for the 2023 General Election. “Over the past couple of months, I’ve seen first hand the strength and resilience...

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Gisborne Herald

03 Apr 2023

Sport

Season-opener ‘massive’

Kathleen Henderson Memorial win goes to YMP

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Gisborne Herald

20 Mar 2023