Whanganui ChronicleNothing 'fairer' about STV election systemIT'S A funny thing, but after every election someone finds a reason to explain why "their" candidate failed to make it. Of recent 08 Dec 09:05 AM
Whanganui ChronicleEditorial: All to play for nationally ... and locallyPHEW. That was some curveball. Totally out of left field (sorry ... right field), John Key announces he's quitting and eclipses TV 06 Dec 08:05 PM
Whanganui ChronicleIan McKelvie: Community revels in Christmas spiritOur region is alive and well and heralding the festive season with market days, Christmas parades and even night markets - many of 06 Dec 05:55 PM
Whanganui ChronicleJay Kuten: Trump shuns media for twittersphereVon Clausewitz's aphorism that "war is the continuation of politics by other means" may well apply today, with reversal of the two 06 Dec 04:50 PM
Whanganui ChronicleSteve Baron: Council takes a punt in the business worldThere has always been a philosophical debate in politics - should governments/councils be in business? More specifically, should 06 Dec 12:18 AM
Whanganui ChronicleYour view: Readers' have their saySystem is sick I would suggest Mr Benfell (Chronicle letters, December 5) look up Greg Palast's website for the complex reasoning 05 Dec 11:29 PM
Whanganui ChronicleFred Frederikse: The good old, bad old days go up in smokeYou won't remember me," a fellow retiree said in town the other day. He was wrong. Vague memories surfaced of learning to swim and 05 Dec 05:09 PM
Whanganui ChronicleEditorial: Rush of celebrity corpses largely illusoryThe death of Ray Columbus on Wednesday has added another music icon to what many see as a swingeing cull on pop stars in 2016. David 04 Dec 07:01 PM
Whanganui ChronicleYour view: Readers' lettersSeparate dux Again, I wonder whether New Zealand is a country of equality or are racial distinctions still seen as necessary? We 04 Dec 06:06 PM
Whanganui ChronicleGovernment must up its game on climate changeAs I write my final contribution for the year (and - as I am about to leave Whanganui - for the foreseeable future), I am thinking 04 Dec 05:05 PM
Whanganui ChronicleYour view: Readers' lettersCare confusion Re: The lovely independent 91-year-old and her troubles with Mid Central District Health Board and its home care policy. I 03 Dec 09:04 PM
Whanganui ChronicleTerry Sarten: Sheet makers in bed with pillowcases companiesYOU will be amazed by this satirical take on conspiracy theories and clickbait. Did you realise that there are untruths everywhere; 03 Dec 08:45 AM
Whanganui ChronicleChris Cresswell: Take tobacco road to stub out warmingTHE human race is like a smoker. As cigarette smoke is to the human body, greenhouse gases are to the planet. So we can learn lessons 03 Dec 04:53 AM
Whanganui ChronicleEditorial: The 'drivel' is all Mr Dunne'sNew mayor Hamish McDouall's idea of government department's in Wellington damaged by the November 14 earthquake re-housing in Whanganui 02 Dec 07:31 PM
Whanganui ChronicleFrank Gibson: Talk reveals huge effort to relocate birdsLast month's Whanganui Science Forum talk featured Doug Armstrong from Massey University. A professor of conservation biology, he 02 Dec 08:06 AM
Whanganui ChronicleChester Borrows: I've not gone yetIT'S been a funny old week, and readers will have no doubt seen the news that this will be my last term in Parliament. I appreciate 02 Dec 12:45 AM
Whanganui ChronicleEditorial: Fortune favours the resoluteHow quickly fortunes can change on the cricket field. After returning home from an arduous - and losing - tour of India, New Zealand's 01 Dec 04:26 PM
Whanganui ChronicleKate labels PC world BSI'm a woman on the edge people. Pushed to breaking point and finally ready to push back. Sick to bloody death of being bullied 01 Dec 01:09 AM
Whanganui ChronicleNavy's anniversary deserves our respectLIKE Green Party member Chris Cresswell, I, too, was in Auckland last week for the Royal New Zealand Navy's 75th anniversary. Unlike 30 Nov 11:52 PM
Whanganui ChronicleFrank Greenall: Make Whanganui the capitalTHE worst-kept secret in town is now official - Whanganui is to be the nation's new capital city. Any day now, following extensive 30 Nov 05:25 PM
Whanganui ChronicleSimon Waters: Maverick route not the best directionGuy McPherson is nothing, if not controversial. His human extinction within 10 years prediction polarises people. And attracts large 30 Nov 06:29 AM
Whanganui ChronicleDan Jackson: A lament for Guy FawkesWE HAD a bit of a Guy Fawkes evening the other night. It was all very low key. I brought home a large old washing machine drum and 29 Nov 11:31 PM
Whanganui ChronicleJay Kuten: Of tragedy and catastropheEVENTS over the past two weeks in the rest of the country and now, with the vandalism and attempted arson of Whanganui's surf lifesaving 29 Nov 10:30 PM
Whanganui ChronicleEditorial: A man who served us wellThe news that Kerry James Borrows - aka Chester - is stepping away from politics prior to next year's General Election is not a great 29 Nov 05:41 PM
Whanganui ChronicleEditorial: Why not oppose all family violence?Another White Ribbon Day last Friday, and another good crowd supporting the cause of ending domestic violence against women. It is 28 Nov 06:30 PM
Whanganui ChronicleFred Frederikse: Art happens outside the galleryLooking back I realise I have had a privileged art education. At Parakino Maori School I was a day one student in the new modernist 28 Nov 05:37 PM
Whanganui Chronicle'Tis the season NOT to be trolliedAS THE silly season descends on us and - hopefully - so does the summer weather, opportunities to get together with family, friends 28 Nov 05:03 PM
Whanganui ChronicleSteve Braunias: The Secret Diary of The Punisher Rodrigo DuterteMONDAY They call me The Punisher but at the end of the day I'm just plain old Rodrigo Duterte, President of the Philippines, and 26 Nov 10:39 PM
Whanganui ChronicleEditorial: Time to rethink entering Pike River mineTHE sixth anniversary of the Pike River disaster has been and gone with some new information exposed. Radio New Zealand's Checkpoint 26 Nov 05:30 AM
Whanganui ChronicleNicola Patrick: Staying positive despite the 'terrifying things'I'M NOT known for quoting from The Bible, but Luke 21:11, "There will be great earthquakes ... famines and plagues ... and there 26 Nov 04:11 AM
Whanganui ChronicleTerry Sarten: Fair is foul and foul is fair for MacTrumpMacTRUMP Act 4, Scene 1: An alley alongside a luxury apartment building - in the middle, a boiling cauldron. Thunder. Enter three 26 Nov 03:00 AM
Whanganui ChronicleCourage in shaky timesI don't know about you but the last three weeks are proof that we're living in unsettled times. Depending on your point of view25 Nov 02:59 AM
Whanganui ChronicleSmiles all round as minister plays SantaThe Honorable Chris Finlayson can come across as a rather cold fish, a tightly-buttoned intellectual. But yesterday he was all smiles 24 Nov 06:30 PM
Whanganui ChronicleGwynne Dyer: Egyptian democracy is deadMOHAMMED Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected president, has now been in prison more than three times as long as he was in 24 Nov 05:00 PM
