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Face-to-face contact will be key to connecting those "invisible" in mainstream services to the Covid-19 vaccine, Māori health leaders say.

Police in Wairoa are now carrying firearms after multiple incidents in in the East Coast town yesterday.

More locations of interest linked to a Covid-19 community case in Northland have been revealed as queues grow outside testing stations, and Australia suspends quarantine free travel in light of the…

Health authorities in Tairāwhiti have called for continued vigilance after a confirmed community case of Covid-19 in Northland.

It's been a summer of change for drivers, with some state highways across Aotearoa having had their speed limit recently reduced.

Drivers in Tairāwhiti will require a "major behaviour change" if a move to lower speed limits across the region goes ahead.

If you are looking for a cheap ride, horses in Wairoa are going to auction for $20 to $100 a pop.

A summer campaign to combat sexually transmitted infections and Covid-19 is calling for young people to mask up on "top and bottom".

Local Democracy Reporter Alice Angeloni explores Tinder, toxic masculinity and sexual consent, and whose role it is to keep young people safe and informed.

Anyone who wants to light an outdoor fire in the Gisborne / Tairāwhiti area will now need to apply for a permit.

A cardiology team in Gisborne is crediting stronger relationships with Ngāti Porou for the success of recent remote clinics.

Work has finally started to restore an old wharf at Tokomaru Bay on the East Cape. A committed band of locals has been working for years to raise money for the rebuild which they hope will…

A business case calling for $150 million to "reinvigorate" Tairāwhiti's sport and recreation facilities will be put to central government.

A trade waste bylaw will for the first time in New Zealand be used to stop the "culturally offensive" practice of mortuary wastewater being discharged into rivers and the ocean.

An earlier "heads-up" on finances from the government would prevent a "gallop" to finalise hospital budgets post-Budget Day, health board leaders say.

Māori are more likely to get cancer, will get it younger, are diagnosed later, have poorer access to treatment, and are much more likely to die from cancer than non-Māori, because of inequity in the…

Gisborne's Endeavour saga continues as "propositions" roll in to the community group which has been gifted back one of the controversial 200kg models.

The New Zealand Defence Force has agreed to help descendants of soldiers in the Māori Battalion's C Company claim the war medals their ancestors never received.

The Ministry of Health has been forced to apologise after it sent invitations to 1200 people to take part in a bowel cancer screening programme - despite them already having the disease.

Gisborne has voted in its youngest-ever councillor after a by-election for the city ward.