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As rebuilding efforts continue in Gisborne, the Mayor is welcoming visitors for summer.

The city was hit hard by Cyclone Gabrielle with homes and infrastructure destroyed.

But Gisborne Mayor Rehette Stoltz told Tim Dower that it is encouraging people to experience the white sand beaches and vineyards in the region.

She says it's been tough, but they have so much to offer.

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Gisborne District Council says a beloved family dog should've never been put down under its watch.

An investigation has been launched after Sarge was taken from his property on Friday and mistakenly euthanised by an animal control officer.

According to the family's social media post, he was fully chipped and in a fenced-in area.

Gisborne District Council's Nedine Thatcher-Swann says she wants to unpack exactly what's happened.

"To the whānau, we have failed them. And we sincerely apologise- and to our community, for this."

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Gisborne's Mayor says the region is shattered after constant extreme weather events.

Welfare centres have been opened as the region remains in a State of Local Emergency, with a Red Heavy Rain Warning in place until midday Sunday.

An Orange Heavy Rain Warning is in place for much of Hawke's Bay.

State Highway 35 from Gisborne to Ruatoria is now closed overnight, while State Highway 2 is closed between Matawai and Whatatutu Road.

Gisborne Mayor Rehette Stoltz told Heather du Plessis-Allan that the worst could be yet to come.

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Prue Batten writes award winning historical fantasy and fiction from her farm in Tasmania in her native Australia. After working as a journalist/researcher for Australian Broadcasting Corporation and raising a family, she writes novels and farms with her husband in a cropping and grazing operation. Dissatisfied with a librarian job, she walked up the street. At the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, she thought “I'll go in there and ask for a job.” Hired on the spot for a human resources slot, she was a researcher three months later. “It was the best job of all time. I loved it.”