"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

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

A COUPLE of weeks ago, I chastised the Talley group and particularly their local industries - Affco Imlay, Land Meats and Open Country

HOW MANY years does it take to change a light bulb? Seriously, this isn't a joke. I was reminded recently by a friend that it took

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

MONDAY At the end of the day my initial reaction when you talk about doing a film about yourself is that you don't want to seem like

WELL done UCOL for bringing a comprehensive course in beekeeping to Whanganui. I'm one of 30 students (three times more than have

WE ARE rapidly developing a national identity as the land of the long white lie. The "100% Pure" brand has taken a hammering as we

MY COLUMNS in recent weeks have largely been dedicated to reporting on events from around the wider Whanganui region -- including

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

THE weekday six o'clock TV news is often grim news indeed. Very weighty words are required to convey the grimness of this news. This

I'm a sports fan which means there isn't much sport that I don't either watch on TV, read about or talk to others about. Except synchronised

EARLIER this month, the Government announced there would be a national day to mark the New Zealand Land Wars. Remembering these wars

THE weekday six o'clock TV news is often grim news indeed. Very weighty words are required to convey the grimness of this news. This

ENSURING New Zealanders can access better, sooner and more convenient healthcare remains the Government's No1 funding priority. The

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

SOMETIMES the positive achievements of a United States president's administration are couched in the negative. Things not done, or

RARE: The swelling pink bud of Rafflesia, the world's largest flower. WE REJOINED the tourist trail at Bukittinggi, West Sumatra

The closure of the Manus Island detention camp in Papua New Guinea is long overdue. Now it's time Australia closed Nauru. Australia's

THE Government's recent announcement that it will pursue a goal of New Zealand becoming predator-free by 2050 has been widely and

I'M FEELING hard done by. This week during a moment between making dinner and folding washing, I found myself watching a reality show

Pain - it's something we all experience at some time in our lives. It's about as unavoidable as death and taxes. Chronic pain, however