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Kiwi MMA fighter Hakaraia Wilson dies, aged 26

Kiwi MMA fighter Hakaraia Wilson has died aged 26. Te Ao News reports he died suddenly in Gisborne yesterday morning. “The death is not suspicious and has been referred to the Coroner,” police said. Wilson was in Gisborne to attend Rhythm and...

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Entertainment

What’s On In Tairāwhiti Gisborne this weekend: Belated New Year party; Board Games Night; Saturday Sundowner

• Sun City Spinners: Poverty Bay Bowling Club, 111 Ormond Rd, 9am-11.30am, fees apply. Ph Dale 867 5083 or email eastland@creativefibre. org. nz

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Tairāwhiti news in brief: First log ship of the year, beach warnings lift, debris back

The first of many log ships to call into Eastland Port to load cargo for 2025 will be tied up alongside the wharf until Sunday. The Alaska arrived and docked on New Year’s Day. “She will take about the 30,000-tonne mark from here and then sail...

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Maraka tavern owner grateful no one hurt after car crashes into building

The owner of a Gisborne business feels “blessed” that no one was seriously hurt after a car crashed into the side of the building. The driver of the vehicle was arrested at the scene and is now facing charges in court A police spokesman said...

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Sport

Girlpower: Hoskin leads female charge in golden year for Gisborne

It’s not easy being a parent in sport. From applying a plaster to a bloodied knee to “the Bank of Mum and Dad” funding an Olympic Games dream, parents of sports-loving children board the emotional rollercoaster pretty much the day their young...

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Gisborne youth group Ka Timata helps rangatahi build confidence and life skills

Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air An ex-convict who resolved to turn his life around is helping disengaged Gisborne rangatahi find confidence and purpose through a youth group. Freddy Bishop, a 37-year-old father of four, started...

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Gisborne’s significant improvement in New Year driver behaviour

He said police were also pleased with the behaviour of visitors and locals at Mahi

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Chopper winches victim to safety after Waioeka Gorge crash

“The initial callout came in through an SOS function on an iPhone,” Matawai chief fire officer Hamish Carmichael told the Gisborne Herald

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02 Jan 2025

Rhythm and Vines: Queues of traffic for hundreds of metres

A queue of traffic lined Gisborne’s Back Ormond Rd as Rhythm and Vines festivalgoers packed up their muddy gear and got ready to move on at the close of the event on New Year’s Day. Traffic flowed relatively smoothly through a police breath test...

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02 Jan 2025

The remarkable story of the U-boat that slipped into NZ unnoticed

January 15 will be the 80th anniversary of a daring maritime exploit of World War II when German U-boat U-862 sailed undetected into Gisborne harbour. The 2016 publication of U-boat in New Zealand Waters, researched and written by the late Gerald...

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02 Jan 2025

Gisborne CBD all but gridlocked as wet, muddy festivalgoers flock to town centre

Gumboots and plastic ponchos were the order of day two of the 2024 edition of Rhythm and Vines in Gisborne as conditions emulated one of the world’s most famous long-running music festivals: Glastonbury. R&V organisers described it as “good...

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01 Jan 2025

Tairāwhiti news digest: Pā Wars this week; Fire in the Sky; wet weather update

The annual Ngāti Porou Inter Marae Sports Festival, more commonly known as Ngāti Porou Pā Wars, will take place on January 3 at Whakarua Park in Ruatōria. Pā Wars is celebrating its 30th anniversary since it began in 1995. There will be more...

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