THIS week is White Ribbon Week when family violence is at the front of our minds as a country -- that is, as a society that should

YES, God inflicted the June 2015 flood on Whanganui because of a scourge of parking fine defaulters ... as we know. We know, because

US PRESIDENT-elect Donald Trump announced on Monday that he will cancel the Trans-Pacific Partnership on his first day in office (January

By Steve Baron AT HIS last Whanganui District Health Board meeting it was extremely disappointing to hear board member Allan Anderson

WE NEED to continue the conversation about the US election. Unlike the deliberative process designed by the constitution's framers

JUST after midnight on Monday, November 14, New Zealand was struck by another severe earthquake. Initially recorded as a 7.5, it turned

I READ with interest a story in the Chronicle last week that reported on our mayor, Hamish McDouall, suggesting an option for Government

Since the 1950s farmers have been working to control erosion, but there's a lot we still don't know about the processes involved

Port upgrade With the recent earthquakes showing us how much we depend on highly vulnerable ferry crossings through a most unsuitable

OVER the years I've dedicated a lot of column inches to quoting people far more brilliant than I in order to push my point with polish. A

THERE is an increasing trend in New Zealand and overseas towards offloading responsibilities for conservation action on to community

WHILST quoting my humble hero, Leonard Cohen, last week, I was unaware he was dying. I'd recently shared a link to his latest album

Jurors' pay Who advocates for the jurors? It's a crime how little a jury member is paid for their time in this country. At $31

YOU can't but think Whanganui is on the cusp of something really big when you stand on the riverside and watch a massive ferry with

Under suspicion For some months Kiwibank has treated me as a robber suspect when I go in to pay a power bill. Until I take my hat

EVEN before Donald Trump hijacked the Republican Party, he was loudly declaring that the science of climate change, like Barack Obama

SOME months back, my racehorse-mad friend Tony -- the one of American/Italian extraction -- expressed grave fears about the possibility

Moonbeams 1.50pm, Monday, November 14. I am watching the TV news, waiting for the boffins to confirm that moonbeams played a role

MONDAY morning started early, 12.03am to be precise. The house shaking and rolling, like a plane in turbulence. We were joined by

These quakes have got me thinking about our own little patch of the shaky isles. As the shake the other night more than illustrated

"IN TURKEY, we are progressively putting behind bars all people who take the liberty of voicing even the slightest criticism of the

Trump and us Chester Borrows (Chronicle, November 11), if you think the reactions of people [to the US election result] are hilarious

ALMOST everyone I spoke to was predicting that Hillary Clinton would be the next president of the United States -- all except my friend

The fine-tuning has probably begun on the Whanganui night market but except for minor tweaks it was a raging success. The Thursday

The politically powered time machine has transported us back to the 1950s. We now find ourselves in some kind of celestial seclusion

IT HAS been an upsetting week. Expectations got turned upside down, uncertainty about the future now abounds and (in the opinion of

SCIENTISTS say the Earth is in the midst of a mass extinction caused by human impacts on biodiversity, including habitat loss, hunting

Sitting down to write your column on the night it looks like the United States elected Trump is not an easy ask. I had an idea brewing

Donald Trump's win made me eat a whole packet of pineapple lumps on Wednesday night. They were destined for slighter bigger things

IN A walk up Lambton Quay the morning after the election in the United States, it was interesting to hear the conversations. Amazing