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Sarah
Curtis

‘You’ve just got to carry on’: Fishers off the water since October

This season has been a tough one for Eastern North Island (CRA3) fishers. Bad weather, lower than average catch numbers and declining cray population generally, lower than average port prices, and now - in the middle of it all – a toxic algal...

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Sarah Curtis

26 Jan 2024

News

Marine biotoxin event worst to hit NZ lobster industry

Financial losses continue to mount for the local crayfish industry as a ban on fishing due to a toxic algal bloom on the East Coast heads towards its fourth month.

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Sarah Curtis

26 Jan 2024

News

Future of our region’s landscape ‘hard to predict’: GDC principal scientist

Growing list of spots suffering storm erosion damage.

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Sarah Curtis

24 Jan 2024

News

They’re back! Weka returning to city fringes

Once commonly seen in and around Gisborne city, the weka population in the North Island has sadly declined to the point where the birds are rarer than kiwi. However, it seems weka might be making a comeback and that people who think they might have...

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Sarah Curtis

23 Jan 2024

Lifestyle

Swimmers share sea with Salps

Some of the region’s beachgoers found themselves swimming in what felt like a sea of gelatinous bubble tea at the weekend. Sarah Curtis investigates . . . While many feared the weird gelatinous globules bobbing all around them might have been...

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Sarah Curtis

20 Jan 2024

News

Kiwi thirst quencher: How to make Pōhutukawa cordial

This season’s display of pōhutukawa flowers has been nothing short of triumphant and with a few trees still sporting the crimson, there’s still time to gather some stamens for a refreshing summer drink. Not widely known but often discussed on...

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Sarah Curtis

16 Jan 2024

News

Stricter fire rules loom as temperatures soar

Fire and Emergency NZ has asked the public to be extremely careful with fires in the open this weekend with the mercury set to reach 31 degrees today and tomorrow, and with north-westerly winds. Tairāwhiti remains in an open fire season, which...

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Sarah Curtis

13 Jan 2024

News

School ground gets colourful makeover

Getting ready to roll for the new school year, contractor JP Priest started laying astroturf over the old concrete netball court at St Mary’s Primary School this week. Mr Priest expects to finish the work early next week — in time for students...

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Council’s forestry rating system under attack: Court issues its findings on conservation issue

Council ‘well within its powers’ in rates decision for forest: judge

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Sarah Curtis

10 Jan 2024

News

Freedom camping at Pouawa for 50 years

It would take a cyclone at least to send stalwart camper Tony Coutts home from his favourite summertime locale. For the past 50 years — ever since his parents first took him there as a five year-old — Tony has spent every summer holiday freedom...

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Sarah Curtis

04 Jan 2024

News

Meng Foon and illegal sea wall in boaties’ firing line

Boaties say former mayor Meng Foon’s illegal seawall at Tatapouri is to blame for an unusual pile-up of sand that’s marooning their vessels and vehicles at the end of the slipway. Local boatie and former captain of the Gisborne Tatapouri Sports...

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Sarah Curtis

04 Jan 2024

News

Battle over huts continues: Iwi authority appealing ‘crazy’ High Court ruling

The iwi organisation that destroyed huts in Te Urewera says it will appeal a “crazy” High Court ruling that the decision to do so was unlawful. Te Uru Taumatua (TUT) — the post settlement governance entity for Tūhoe, responsible jointly with...

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Sarah Curtis

23 Dec 2023

News

DoC sets target date for reopening Mōrere pools

The reopening of Mōrere Hot Springs has taken a big step forward, with major remedial infrastructure works now under way at the site. A failing septic system forced the closure of the hot pools last summer, and effects from Cyclone Gabrielle...

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Sarah Curtis

22 Dec 2023