JOHN KEY At the end of the day it's obviously very sad but if there's anything I can do to help then I hope they know I'd be happy

IN 2014, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) declined Trans Tasman Resources (TTR) request to mine the seabed off the coast

HAVING read some of the responses to the right-wing, anti-Muslim flyers distributed to households around Whanganui a week or so ago

CONGRATULATIONS to Whanganui High School for taking out the top prize in the country's top secondary school drama competition. The

More than half our Paralympians delivered personal bests to say nothing of the three world records set by KiwisI DON'T get much chance

LAST Saturday's Chronicle article about the chair with the Battle of Trafalgar connections, now in the Whanganui Regional Museum

AS THE Syrian ceasefire arranged by the United States and Russia teeters on the brink of collapse, it's clear the main problem lies

APPARENTLY I have no magic left in me. I was coldly informed of this by my beloved the other night ... while I was laughing at her. She

TWO recent events have revived my concerns over the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP). United States President Barack Obama

AND so we come to it at last ... voting papers finally in our hands after what already feels like a gruelling campaign period that

HAS a political puzzle finally been solved? Kim MacIntyre was the mystery man of the 2014 general election in Whanganui when he stood

Not best option In releasing the 2014 MWH alternative wastewater treatment plant proposal, the mayor states that Cardno (Mike McCoy)

I PLAYED three songs at the Musicians Club recently - two of my own, with one so hot off the press I had the words on big sheets of

A FEW weeks back I devoted a column to the rewriting of some old truisms. One truism I won't rewrite - because I, personally, believe

INEQUITY in sentencing was stark this week when the son of a rich businessman was given a community-based sentence for assaulting

IF THERE'S one thing an incoming district council needs to prioritise for Whanganui, it's giving more prominence to positive ageing

By Healthy Families Whanganui Rangitikei Ruapehu Being active doesn't have to be about going to the gym or playing organised sport. Take

LAST Sunday I was on pilgrimage -- travelling to the land of Ronald Hugh Morrieson, fortuitously only an hour's drive up the line

"WE USE nature because she's valuable. We lose nature because she's free" - Pavan Sukhdev, keynote speaker at the 2013 Valuing Nature

LIKE lots of other people I looked in at the council debates last week via Facebook. It was the first time the Chronicle had live

THE APPEARANCE of flyers in Whanganui letterboxes touting Muslims as posing a threat may offend our sense of community, but having

TWO successful forums for council candidates were held on Wednesday and Thursday evenings at the War Memorial Centre. Of the 33 hopefuls

If the new school funding measures have taught me anything, it's that Education Minister, Hekia Parata needs to take herself back

AIRINI BEAUTRAIS restores your faith in human nature. When the gutless anti-Muslim flyers were spread around Whanganui like something

IT'S that time again ... the three-yearly opportunity for everyone to vote in local elections - that's mayoralties (gosh, don't we

NORTH Korean leader Kim Jong-Un reportedly had one of his ministers recently executed for displaying bad sitting posture at a government

"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first

IS AFFCO a good corporate citizen, asked The Nation, one of the best news shows on New Zealand television. In the weekend's programme

RECENTLY I took issue with the way in which this city and its people were portrayed by TV3's Story programme (August 2, 2016). I

KIDS hate my job. Not what I actually do - which is recycling which they think is cool in a "save the planet" kind of way. No, they