'Bridging Tairāwhiti' members feel anxious and disrupted due to destroyed bridges since Cyclone Gabrielle. They formed a group last month to lobby for funding and reconnect their properties to roads. Gisborne District Council is working to support ...
Submissions presented at Gisborne District Council's three-year plan hearings see residents clash with the council over pothole repairs and cycle paths. 'It's a balancing Act,' said Mayor Rehette Stoltz over the diverging views for Gisborne's recovery.
One family lived in a tent during the cyclone, while another ended up in emergency housing and even slept in a truck one night. These are their stories about moving into a brand new home.
Zita Campbell, Local Democracy reporter “Barriers are everywhere for disabled people in Gisborne,” says Karen Tait, who has an adult son with rheumatoid...
A community-led research project that investigates the impacts of extreme weather events on health and wellbeing found gaps of inequality in disaster response.