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Wham, bam ... Rees completes the Grand Slam

Gisborne Speedway Club driver Pete Rees has completed the “Grand Slam” of major trophies available in New Zealand superstock racing. Foxton-based Rees, driving his 10G machine, won the 2024-2025 NZ Superstock Grand Prix title in a family...

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07 Jan 2025

Te Ara Tipuna Trail could be East Coast’s own El Camino

Submissions have opened for a 500km walking trail from near Gisborne to Ōpōtiki that could be the East Coast’s answer to El Camino de Santiago in Spain. An application for multiple resource consents has been lodged with Gisborne District Council...

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07 Jan 2025

City river and ocean waters clean again

Gisborne city’s rivers and beaches were back in business on Friday after the lifting of health warnings put in place as a result of Boxing Day rain. Many people took advantage of the waters being clean again. Waka ama clubs had their paddlers back...

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04 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

Record December rain, high wind damages highway in Gisborne

Record monthly rainfall in Tairāwhiti was followed by dangerous high wind leaving sections of State Highway 2 impassable. Police urged motorists to avoid SH2 near the Wharerata Rd lookout if possible at 2.15pm today due to high winds knocking trees...

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28 Dec 2024

Gisborne swimmers finish the year in style at HBPB champs

Gisborne’s Enterprise Swim Team and Comet Swimming Club came away from the Hawke’s Bay/ Poverty Bay swimming championships at Kiwa Pools with a stack of medals. Enterprise had their biggest team in some time at the regional champs. “We had 48...

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21 Dec 2024

Rainfall early Christmas gift for Gisborne’s farmers and growers

A blessing and “proof that Santa is real” was how Gisborne’s farming leaders have described the rain that fell across the region this week. Most parts of Tairāwhiti got good rainfall out of the southerly system that persisted for several...

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21 Dec 2024

Arson charge laid over Gisborne boarding house fire

Police have charged a man after fire at the rear of the Gisborne City Lodge. Firefighters responded to the small fire in a detached bedroom at the rear of the building on Childers Rd about 4.30pm on Monday. The fire was put out before it could...

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20 Dec 2024

Gisborne’s Koby Gooch joins NZ youth ministock team for 2025

Koby Gooch has been selected for the 2025 youth ministock team competing in Perth. The team includes six drivers aiming to retain the Trans-Tasman Trophy across four races. Gooch, 15, also competes in the New Zealand Formula First Championship and...

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18 Dec 2024

Tairāwhiti’s paid lifeguards hit the beaches for extended season

Tairāwhiti’s council-funded surf lifeguards officially kicked off the summer season on Monday with full site inductions across the city’s patrolled beaches Wainui, Waikanae, and Midway. The team, made up primarily of local lifeguards, will...

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18 Dec 2024

Gisborne’s Zest Cafe targeted by burglars, $8000 in goods stolen

It will be a tougher Christmas for the family who operate Gisborne’s Zest Cafe after thieves broke into their chiller on Monday night. The loss of half of the chiller’s contents at about 10pm marks the second time the cafe on Peel Street has...

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18 Dec 2024

Superstocks sensationally fast at Gisborne doubleheader meeting

Gisborne Speedway Club turned on two nights of great superstock racing at the weekend that wowed the crowd and the Rees boys family once again proved too hard to stop. The fourth round of the Kuru Contracting/A&R Logging Superstock Thunder...

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