Whangarei's mayor is embarrassed about pay increases. But perhaps the Remuneration Authority (RA) should be the embarrassed one, writes Craig Cooper.

There is a fascination with ageing and currently scientists are working on a 40-year-old study that could help predict, when you're in your 20s, how you're going to age.

Summer creates many memories for locals and visitors - we spend a lot of time on our coasts, in the water. Some of those memories, sadly, are tragic ones, writes Craig Cooper.

Sonny Tau will have to experience the sour taste of public ignominy, writes Northern Advocate editor Craig Cooper.

Andrew Bonallack writes: If there's one thing the debacle with the Conservative Party has demonstrated, it's that politics is not a game for amateurs.

What prompts a school to ban something is usually, I would imagine, a matter of being fed up with a distraction, a noise or a bad look. Or at least it should be, says Andrew Bonallack.