SHOULDN'T WE be looking at how top rotect our under-pressure pristine landscapes? Do we need another Great Walk? Regardless of your

MONDAY The Prime Minister said, "Mate, would you like to go to Rio at the end of the day?" I said, "You bet I would, mate!" "Good,"

There is an urgent need to tackle the problem of Vulnerable Political Strategy ... Those who proposed the name of Ministry for Vulnerable

Well, there were a couple of surprises when the nominations closed for local body elections. No fewer than 33 candidates have been

Last week I used the truism, actions speak louder than words. Whether you know them as truisms, adages or sayings you heard growing

I guess I need to be careful what I say about Aucklanders. After all, many of the residents of New Zealand's biggest city fly or

IT HAS sometimes struck me that there are people in Whanganui who have an inferiority complex about their home town. As if they need

I'M GRATEFUL the Olympics only last a fortnight -- watching all that highly fraught determination to propel bodies, horses and bicycles

With our current employment rates at 90.4 per cent, a whole lot of us are spending significant time and energy in our place of work

Fires are devastating, and capable of wiping out whole households and memories. THE number of house fires in Whanganui and district

THIRTY-THREE candidates ... count them. That's 33 hopefuls standing for the chance to sit down at the Whanganui District Council

I HAD malaria once, and it was extremely unpleasant. I had been working in Yemen, but I contracted it while flying home on a Dutch

TWO American elections ago, during their primaries when Barack Obama beat Hillary Clinton for the candidacy of the Democratic Party

I remember (only just) when my night didn't even properly start until after 9pm. IT'S probably not especially cool to admit this

By Philip McConkey AS MOST of us are aware, United States party conventions have been taking place over recent weeks. Among the many

NEGOTIATING with a gun to your head cannot be easy ... Is that why Whanganui chief executive Kym Fell was unwell over the weekend? Mr

MONDAY Monday caucus. They filed in, dragging their heels, yawning, scratching, sighing. They were a bit more animated than usual. I

THERE has been much talk of late about the "no show - no dough" proposal for Whanganui council members when it comes to attending

FIRST discovered in that wonderful decade, the 1950s, Kapuni has been providing natural gas for New Zealanders for more than 50 years. To

IN an age of professional sportspeople, every action will create a reaction because the lives of those individuals are front and centre. The

They are calling it Woeful Wednesday - or maybe it should be Terrible Tuesday, depending if you are on NZ time or Brazilian time. Either

I'VE recently had a few weeks in the Far North - the place which people who don't live there cannot refer to without prefacing it

Lego. What a truly magnificent product and a case study for all business in terms of adaptation and staying ahead of the curve. On

I came to my skepticism of political advertisement early in life. World War II ended shortly after my 10th birthday and I remembered

In some ways many of today's kids do have it easy. Calculators and tablets for schoolwork, mums (and dads) zooming them everywhere in cars for after-school activities, bugger-all real chores to do. But in other ways today's kids have it harder.

THE five most ignorant countries in the world are Mexico, India, Brazil, Peru and New Zealand. And the five best informed are South

The issue of paying Whanganui councillors for attending meetings - or, more pertinently, not paying them when they do not turn up

In the 1960s an eccentric English aristocrat, Alexander Thynn, the 7th Marquis of Bath, proposed that the world should consist of

MONDAY Chiefs CEO Andrew Flexman: The boys are hurting over their loss to the Hurricanes. But that's rugby. At the end of the day

PIZZA for breakfast! That's just one reason why I love Saturday mornings at the River Traders market. The market is popular with