Huge effort to create festival

WHEN Rhythm and Vines Festival-goers arrive here next week for New Zealand’s biggest New Year event, they will see the magnificence of the transformed Waiohika Estate first-hand.
About 2000 production, sound, scaffolding, building and other staff

Should be smooth highway travelling

GISBORNE -East Coast travellers hitting the road over Christmas-New Year will not be held up by roadworkers’ stop-go signs for the next few weeks.
That is because the regional office of the New Zealand Transport Agency

Monitoring of septic tanks in urban area

PUBLIC notification of regulation changes that will see compulsory monitoring of septic tanks in urban areas has been launched by Gisborne District Council.
The changes will focus on urban areas such as Wainui-Okitu and Makaraka, and

Security around festival now a serious business

THE East Coast Thumpers are back to help contain crowds at the BW campsite and Churchill Park.
The Thumpers are not the bullet-headed bouncers the name suggests — mostly they are involved with the erection and

Big housing estate plan gets red light

GISBORNE District Council will return to chambers next year to a recommendation that it declines the biggest private development in the district’s history.
An independent panel has indicated it will recommend the private plan change application

Why do they do it .. ? Because of the kids

A QUIET suburban street by day becomes a steady hum of cars by night, carrying children in PJs who can’t quite believe what they are seeing.
Up to 500 people a night visit the Cooper residence

Hospital board wants flexibility

TAIRAWHITI District Health board members want some influence over their planning processes, which they say are too prescriptive as established by the Ministry of Health.
The board has decided to hold a half-day meeting to decide