East Coast

A Gisborne train group needs to raise the money for repairs to a KiwiRail line so its fabled steam locomotive can continue its usual route.

A person involved in a truck crash on SH35 in Hicks Bay on the East Coast has died.

The clearance of woody debris from popular Tairāwhiti beaches will continue this summer following a district council meeting on Thursday afternoon.

Four arrests have been made following a "brutal assault" on a 61-year-old in Gisborne last month.

Victims who experienced an onslaught of water through their homes and farms accused a forestry company of acting like "cowboys".

An unseasonably cold and wet spring in Gisborne has delayed corn harvests, one of the country's largest sweet corn producers says.

A Gisborne rail bridge cannot be used by the city's iconic vintage steam train, but for how long it has been unsafe remains a mystery.

Organisers for Gisborne music festival Rhythm & Vines say artist Dizzee Rascal will remain in this year's line-up, despite a conviction for domestic violence. Audio

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.