East Coast

The controversial sale of the local lines company in Gisborne will go ahead, pending Overseas Investment Office approval.

A man has been seriously injured in an attack at his Gisborne home after a group confronted him at his front door demanding alcohol.

The controversial sale of the publicly owned electricity lines company in Gisborne would leave the region in a "precarious" state, a councillor says.

The owner of an abandoned boat who has successfully evaded police for the past six months previously spent time in prison for cultivating cannabis to sell.

Golden kiwifruit growers have been granted the right to appeal a High Court decision that will increase their rates for growing the product in Tairāwhiti.

Police have arrested and charged two people over the death of a Gisborne toddler earlier this year.

A radiologist at Hawke's Bay Hospital failed to pick up a woman's lung cancer, which officials say was only a symptom of wider problems at the hospital.

Gisborne Mayor Rehette Stoltz has shown early support for a number of proposed reforms that aim to shake up how local government is done in New Zealand.

An abandoned boat that proved a thorn in the side of both Gisborne District Council and the police has finally been removed from a remote East Coast beach - six months after it washed ashore.

Gisborne's water is some of the least adequately fluoridated in the country, recent research has uncovered.

Te Tairāwhiti, the region with the highest proportion of Māori in the country, now has Māori wards for its council for the first time.

Gisborne bus drivers are some of the lowest paid in the country according to a union pushing for pay equity across the industry.

Hundreds of roads in Tairāwhiti are in a state of disarray, with some residents unable to move for months because their roads are impassable.

New Zealand's top songs for 2022 have been announced at the APRA Silver Scroll Awards, with the song '35' taking the top gong.

Community members in Gisborne are kicking off a grassroots movement to try and stop a surge in gang warfare.

Gisborne District Council is being criticised for its handling of a homeless community member after a video circulated on social media showing an employee in an altercation with the man.

One person has been taken into custody after reports of concern for a person at a property in Gisborne.

Rehette Stoltz has secured a second term as mayor of Gisborne with an emphatic win, more than 4000 votes clear of her nearest rival.

A spate of shootings over recent days in Tairāwhiti is "extremely concerning", police say.