Comment: The day is becoming of much more significance to more and more of us.

Readers have their say on an important Whanganui business, and who should pay for roads

"The grass grows, the fruit grows riper. The puku grows wider."

A course in te ao Māori was a gamechanger for Rob Rattenbury.

Comment: Sometimes I'm not 'good, good'.

OPINION: I have no sense of smell. In fact, I'm not sure if I've ever actually had one.

In the words of Israel Adesanya: When one of us win, we all win."

OPINION: We need a referendum on He Puapua, because progress depends on public support.

OPINION: It seemed every unhappy soul in the country got together for a major whinge.

Opinion: By the time the world cottons on to climate change it may be too late.

Comment: It shouldn't be for businesses to enforce traffic lights, Russell Bell writes.

It'll take just over another 12,000 doses to get our region to 90 per cent vaccinated.

OPINION: There's a saying I have always kept in mind and that's 'pass the mic'.

'There is a lot to process that is completely out of our hands... so be kind to yourself'.

Checkout operators - a beacon of calmness in a simmering sea of unease.

"I often say the river called me home."

"Most of us find it hard to even acknowledge anything about our mental health."

Opinion: The anti-staycation: where you wish you had left home but stayed to work instead.

"The few police on the embankment were brushed aside like feathers."

There will be consequences for hate speech, writes Leigh-Marama McLachlan.

OPINION: White supremacists do exist in our country, though hopefully not in great numbers

"I love my country... but I have never felt the need to shout it from the rooftops."