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

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

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

Good question Nicola Patrick's Conservation Comment asks why the Department of Conservation is "Going soft on seabed mining" (Chronicle

A DEAR friend passed just a few days ago. Passed on, passed away, passed over, whatever. There are plenty who say such euphemisms

WHEN I come home to Whanganui after a time away, I'm immediately struck again by the simple beauty of the long stretch of land from

Shocking green Regarding the recent painting job in the Bason Reserve. What a terrible, shocking green. It is not the green of nature

NEW ZEALAND is in good shape. We have the fourth fastest economic growth rate in the OECD at 3.6 per cent. We are making great strides

Forget Facebook Caroline Ritchie displays astonishing -- and, unfortunately, increasingly rare -- true wisdom in her editorial of

AS I LIE prostrate on the ground in supplication and torment, I beg anyone with any power at all ... just bloody well elect a US president

TEN years in the Department of Conservation leaves me with many fond memories, especially when I see photos on Facebook of my old

THIS column attempts to set the scene for the visit of the USS Sampson next week - the first visit by an American warship since the

Positive start The first test of our new council occurred over two full days this week. There is concern amongst our community that

WHEN the news came out that the world's most definitive global travel guide, Lonely Planet, has recognised Taranaki as the world's

Eggspert advice Hello, Frank Greenall. My name is Al Bumen. I enjoyed your column (Chronicle, October 27) with hints on cooking eggs

YES, another Melbourne Cup run and done. One of those events that have entered the DNA of a lot of people, even if they normally

THE MONEY paid to professional sportsmen and women nowadays can sometimes reach numbers that are frankly beyond belief. The latest