The news that Kerry James Borrows - aka Chester - is stepping away from politics prior to next year's General Election is not a great

Another White Ribbon Day last Friday, and another good crowd supporting the cause of ending domestic violence against women. It is

Looking back I realise I have had a privileged art education. At Parakino Maori School I was a day one student in the new modernist

AS THE silly season descends on us and - hopefully - so does the summer weather, opportunities to get together with family, friends

MONDAY They call me The Punisher but at the end of the day I'm just plain old Rodrigo Duterte, President of the Philippines, and

THE sixth anniversary of the Pike River disaster has been and gone with some new information exposed. Radio New Zealand's Checkpoint

I'M NOT known for quoting from The Bible, but Luke 21:11, "There will be great earthquakes ... famines and plagues ... and there

MacTRUMP Act 4, Scene 1: An alley alongside a luxury apartment building - in the middle, a boiling cauldron. Thunder. Enter three

I don't know about you but the last three weeks are proof that we're living in unsettled times. Depending on your point of view

Trump beat 'em all Jay Kuten (November 16) makes some good points about the US election but fails to deliver an accurate assessment. He

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

BY MY definition, a millisphere is a "sphere of interest" of 1000th of the total world population; a region of roughly 7 million

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

THESE quakes have got me thinking about our own little patch of the Shaky Isles. As the shake the other night more than illustrated

QUOTING Tony Abbott's "Shit happens!" -- appropriately, this time -- it's been one hell of a US presidential election and a bad time