The mayor, councillors and staff actively support relocation of the bus depot.

They are huddled in the dark, the only lighting coming from the street light.

There are many reasons a tenant may not be able to leave a property by the intended date.

"Bill has been watered down to get buy-in, but how can you water down an emergency?"

More bureaucracy, heaps more rhetoric but much less real council control.

Competition for the No 10 Downing St address is all on

I used to think that "grunting" was a modern dialect reserved for moody, hormonal teens

"Our council should be setting a standard and leading the way for other employers."

"Some of our most vulnerable citizens use this bus service. They deserve better."

Underpinning a mammoth workforce was an equally mammoth support industry.

"This agency continues to waffle along and fails to justify its existence."

Surely coach travellers are worthy of a better facility, not some throwback to the 1940s.

Budget 2019 allocates $1 billion to the New Zealand rail system over two years.

To know what council spending might be stopped, we must first know the costs involved.

"It's been a hard day's night but you can't always get what you want," muses Terry Sarten.

The terminally ill know they are going to die. It's only a choice of how and when.

At the end of the day, smoking is a personal choice and should remain so.

The bridge may well be safe, but safe and adequate are hugely different things.

Perhaps it's Palliative Care who need to "take their heads out of the sand".

We must change our attitude to death and discuss it openly with family and friends.

Can Whanganui be the best place in New Zealand for an arts career?

Government needs to determine whether the big oil companies are in genuine competition.

We need a practical engineer with an iota of common sense to look for simple fixes.

It's quite simple; just change banks to get the service you want.