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THE local body election campaign is heating up with your voting papers being delivered this month and, of course, the results due

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IT'S official! Or as official as anything can be after an international congress in South Africa has worked on it for seven years. The

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WITH nominations now being called for 2016 inductees into the Whanganui Sports Hall of Fame, it's timely to consider how much those

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Wimmin - what do they know? They can have babies - yes. They say they can do anything - but we, the Misogynists Exclusive Network

To my shame I was confronted with another example of my almost complete ignorance on a slice of New Zealand history - this time with

I'VE noticed recently on social media at least one Whanganui District Council candidate complaining about other candidates' political

The rapid strides in technology can undoubtedly be a huge boon to education, but the latest proposals by the New Zealand Government

The glittering alloy biscuit that passes for the Olympic gold medal these days is a poor cousin of the pure gold specimens last awarded

HERE'S the thing about trucks - they're big and they're heavy. Yup, no real surprises there. But what is surprising is the number

LAST week Prime Minister John Key announced the formation of a new superspy agency -- a combination of the GCSB which was designed

THE Rio Olympics are over ... that's it for another four years. Hope you enjoyed them. There were some great sporting moments - not

At about the same time as snow closed the Napier-Taupo highway we were in Melaka, acclimatising to the heat and quizzing locals about