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Jobs and a chance to reconnect with the whenua are the positive outcomes for an iwi of the government's Jobs for Nature programme.

Services to help those with drug and alcohol addictions are set to get an extra $32 million in funding over the next four years.

A former Department of Conservation ranger and Ngāti Porou descendant fears rubbish from an old landfill near the Awatere River on the East Cape could find its way out to the sea if a solution isn't…

Gisborne students say they struggle to understand why an in-school GP service needed to be axed to make way for yet-to-be-established youth health hubs.

More than 2250 food parcels have been distributed to Tairawhiti households as part of the Covid-19 emergency response.

Gisborne Girls' High School students will press their case for free in-school doctors' appointments when they meet members of the district health board this month.

Forestry may be back but for many others it is a waiting game to see if employers will keep them on when the subsidy cash runs out.

A main tower block at Nelson Hospital and the special care baby unit at Waitākere Hospital are in the worst condition of any hospital buildings in New Zealand, a nationwide hospital stocktake shows.

"Talk to us - that's the whole point," said a protester at this morning's extraordinary meeting of Gisborne district councillors as they voted unanimously to revoke their earlier decision to install…

The number of planned surgeries at Gisborne Hospital that were put off due to the alert level 4 lockdown topped 100.

Auckland is at greater risk from the coronavirus flare-up than the rest of the country, a leading Covid-19 data modeller says.

MP Shane Jones says he will not overrule "the KiwiRail experts" who have thrown cold water on the proposal to restore the train line between Gisborne and Wairoa.

There has been a surge in the rate of Māori being tested for Covid-19, but several districts are still lagging behind.

The heart of the Gisborne economy is beating again as the forestry industry is back in full swing under alert level 3.

The figures don't stack up for reinstating the train line between Gisborne and Wairoa, KiwiRail boss Greg Miller says.

One West Coast mayor - Bruce Smith - says the alert level 3 restrictions are based on fear, not facts.

Demand for health services is expected to surge as Tairāwhiti emerges from the Covid-19 lockdown, the DHB's chief executive says.

Record numbers of people have been turning up at some Covid-19 testing centres, many with the most minor of symptoms.

Te Whānau a Apanui have no Covid-19 cases within their rohe and iwi-led checkpoints are being credited for the result.

Māori leaders fear their people will suffer higher than average rates of unemployment after the level four lockdown lifts.