The submissions process -- from both sides

Lady mayoress leads call for council ban on plastic bags

They are bitten, kicked and slapped in the course of their work - and paid very little.

Shabby new walkway; Who stole the pages?; Media overkill on Comey.

Give your views on extending Whanganui's smokefree policy

Are we too quick to shop elsewhere, and overlook those who prop up our community?

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Why do you have to be behind bars to access the support you needed prior to offending?

A courtroom spectacle in which two MPs made a melodrama of their own fearfulness.

With regional councils more often than not you pay through the nose to deal with dropkicks

Run-down cemetery; Logic at last; Letters v email; No Maori rebellion; the law and heresy.

A cyber attack on UK's National Health Service highlights how vulnerable we are

Why not open up the Whanganui River for riverboat tourism the way it was a century ago?

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Farmers play Russian roulette with their most critical and fundamental asset, the soil.

Readers letters

Children are left to their own devices too often - tablets, computers and phones

More of the mad, bad Marquis please

Your next encounter may be the start of a beautiful business friendship.

The new diplomacy New Zealand style, seen through a glass brownly.

Tourism operators working beside iwi, government and others to unlock region's potential.

The Chester Borrows trial was a theatrical performance -- one YOU paid for.

Boat ramp, Repertory, Aramoho School, Virgin birth, Gender bias, Genesis, Plastic garbage.

We have two contradictory laws.The sensible thing would be to remove or modify one.

Traffic problems, cheeky levies, ferry tales, colonial heavies.

We ought to pull up our drawbridge and politely tell those Aussies where to go.

A ferry service is a great idea, but there's an awful long way to go yet.

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Bill will give Maori greater powers -- and protection -- over their land

A warning to New Zealand -- from Tibet's exiled prime minister