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Bagatelle awaits if you read this to end
The dog and I were out on the hills when a boy came running down the track and stopped...
The dog and I were out on the hills when a boy came running down the track and stopped...
Our accent is, a recent survey says, the world's most alluring.
How to fill the long winter nights - find something to tinker with in the garage perhaps.
COMMENT: The "model law" for marijuana goes much further than a proposal for alcohol.
I went down the drive 'till they saw me, and beckoned the men back up.
Shouldn't medical use and decriminalisation of cannabis come before legalisation?
COMMENT: This talk from my kids about me living in the black & white days is getting to me
A decision to clear Auckland's waterfront would last 100 years.
Creating adequate stopping places for all users of the road is in all of our interests.
Is our vocational training sector really broken?
Poets works convey precisely the same sentiment, a universal compulsion to mourn.
"He was pretty angry, wasn't he?" said Mrs P as we got in our car.
Northland has some of the strongest willed people in New Zealand, says deputy mayor.
Somewhere out there may be a childless aunt you didn't know you had.
Residents believe Plan Change 85C process has been intentionally opaque and undemocratic.
A solution to creaking footwear becomes a new source of embarrassment for Kevin Page.
$1 million for a meningitis vaccination in Fiji but we won't vaccinate Northland children?
I'd simply like to be treated as an independent thinking adult to be respected.
Youth Space funding boost triggers reflections on recent youth achievements in Whangārei.
The cancer ward was so deep inside the building, Bill doubted anyone could ever escape it.
We're all looking for a balance between work, family, creativity and political engagement.
Boomerang Child and Builder Boy need a ride to and from a party. They're grown ups now...
The hands of prejudice and intolerance have no place in our society.
I, like most of us, had never contemplated a mass shooting of this scale in New Zealand.
And with the memory comes not only full sensual detail, but also full emotional detail.
Our sense of peace has been shattered by the intrusion of this unspeakable evil.
March 15, 2019 marks the day we work harder to be a tolerant, open multicultural society.
COMMENT: Whangarei District Mayor Sheryl Mai "dispels myths" over new Civic Centre.
A couple of book collectors travel the world seeking the authors' signatures