Stories by Matthew Rosenberg

A Tai Rāwhiti education programme that boasts a one-year waiting list has bad news for schools eagerly awaiting their turn to visit.

In the two weeks following the cyclone, Peter Clough was busy helping people, and it wasn't until later he discovered his own contents insurance was not actually set up.

A Gisborne couple tasked with an eye-watering clean-up feel they were neglected by the district council.

Slash and whole trees from Gisborne District Council's joint-venture forest appear to have played a significant role in damaging the city's main water supply during Cyclone Gabrielle.

A newly formed Civil Defence team working long hours to support affected whānau in Te Karaka are staying positive despite seemingly endless need in their community.

Gisborne industries could be waiting around two weeks before they can begin operating again as the desperate state of the city's water situation was hammered home at a meeting.

The Gisborne local stood in horror on his driveway watching the Waimatā River, which had doubled in size, thundering towards the city.

A Green Party politician is vowing to make perpetual leases an election issue as Māori landowners continue their fight to gain back control of their whenua.

Māori locked out of their whenua by perpetual leases are continuing their fight against century-old legislation.

A review of land-use in Tairāwhiti looks likely following a meeting at Gisborne District Council yesterday, but there is some confusion about what exactly was settled behind closed doors.

Staff are putting their own wellbeing on the backburner to cope with demand.

A popular Tairāwhiti beach will no longer be accessible to dog walkers as the district council looks to protect nesting kororā.

A popular Gisborne river that becomes a "liquid slurry of mud" in bad weather is increasingly unusable for recreationalists and wildlife alike, waka ama groups say.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

A former police officer who wore a pig mask while on duty has made it on to Gisborne District Council after waiting nearly a week for confirmation.

A section of foreshore next to a popular Gisborne beach will be closed indefinitely to vehicles after four-wheel drivers "desecrated" it.