Comment: Can PM Ardern avoid a Lermontov style disaster?
The open waters of Cook Strait beckoned. What could possibly go wrong?
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Rachel Stewart: Farm leaders in dance over freshwater plan
COMMENT: Finally long-delayed "action plan for freshwater" discussion document has arrived
Jay Kuten: Reality TV and American war and peace
War in Afghanistan has no rationale, no actual legal basis, no clear reachable objective.
Comment: Climate change - the game isn't over
What if we stop pretending that the climate apocalypse is not going to sweep us all away.
Comment: Turakina and Whangaehu backbone of the farming community
Turakina is more than one of those places which you pass through on the way to somewhere.
Letters: Vision needed to grow Whanganui economy
Your letters: Where's the vision for growing Whanganui's economy?
Call for New Zealand Wars remembrance day
COMMENT: It is not a pretty or honourable history, but we should honour it and the dead.
Frank Greenall: KiwiBuild gone with the wind
KiwiBuild housing was affordable only if you had access to a six figure income.
Time to stop punishing addiction, new courts pave the way
There is a very special court in Auckland - the Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Court.
Jay Kuten: Election for the future of Whanganui
It's local election time and columnist Jay Kuten discusses the important issues
Russell Bell: Maintaining your edge in a competitive market
Russell Bell dishes out advice on small business matters.
Adrian Rurawhe: Land claims, home ownership and te reo Maori
Iwi took a huge step forward signing an agreement in principle to settle land claims.
Let's talk law: Farm Debt Mediation Bill
The Farm Debt Mediation Bill (No 2) would establish a mediation scheme
Your Letters: Happy to break down in Whanganui
Readers' letters to the Whanganui Chronicle
Letters: Lunches will feed bad habits
Between the developed and developing worlds we have two different population problems
Terry Sarten: There's a fraction too much fiction
The collision of Harry Potter and religious zeal sparks this week's Terry Sarten column.
Rob Rattenbury: Retirement brings a new set of addictions
Commentator Rob Rattenbury contemplates new addictions since retirement.
Letters: Taking a first step
Somewhere down the track people will ask what you did about climate change.
Frank Greenall: Bring out the local bodies
Commentator Frank Greenall's take on the local body elections.
Comment: Rushing climate change legislation is risky
Rangitikei MP Ian McKelvie checks in from out in the field.
Letters: Costs of measles rise
So far, the 350 people hospitalised with measles have cost taxpayers more than $800,000.
Rachel Stewart: Nope, I'm not taking a guilt trip in my V8
COMMENT: Gripe about my dream car and I'll rip the Velcro off your Tevas.
Letters: Traffic-free cycle ride wonderful
The whole of human history will undertake a violent swerve. -- L.E. Fitton
Russell Bell: Why there's no 'I' in team
Best business advice from local consultant Russell Bell.
Letters: Evolution seen in science
Without evolutionary theory we might still know much about biology but not understand it.
Harete Hipango: In the New Zealand Māori tourism Dragon's Den
Whanganui MP Harete Hipango updates what she's been up to on the electorate's behalf.
Conservation comment: Water never lies
Water never lies. That's how I help our farm interns understand topographic landforms.
Letters: Is it knowing or believing?
Some of us are happy enough without adding the problems of God to our busy lives.
Will Britain be the new Hong Kong
Brits could adopt some of the tactics used by Hong Kong's people's movement.
Rob Rattenbury: Will New Zealand's climate action really make a difference?
The days of denial are over ... but should we lead?
Chester Borrows: Need to hit the right target
The risk aversion of police is such that they deny the return of many firearms licences.
Letters: Our cash for a petty civil dispute
Why is the New Zealand Government getting embroiled in this pitiful debate?
Frank Greenall: Not too late to clear Peter Ellis's name
Comment: I think it's time this lingering miscarriage of justice was just kicked to touch.