We know there are a number of residents with limited means to pay additional rates.

Readers speak out on the 'grievance industry'; the Pope and hell; abortion and fluoride

The PM said: 'It's not where the future lies." I didn't know the future was so close.

Terry Sarten is off to Nelson to play at a special guitar event – the Resonator Festival.

Kate Stewart looks at how to solve the housing crisis

Job cuts in banking and at IRD raise the spectre of a second Industrial Revolution at hand

COMMENT: Let's take a look at the climate in New Zealand.

The environment we find ourselves in has a distinct impact on our behaviour and wellbeing.

No system devised by human beings is invulnerable to manipulation by other human beings.

Many refuse to accept any of it happened and the rest think 'They should just get over it'

You can't argue that you support regional New Zealand while taking away key projects.

It's a sad day when the US President is crudely, amusingly evocative of an ambling primate

Thank you to the organisers of Artists Open Studios for a job well done.

A police squad stricken by a fictitious malady intimidates unsuspecting elderly? Really?

Pope Francis is clearly uncomfortable with the idea of God as the eternal torturer.

I don't know about you, but I can never seem to find a towel when I need one.

People just don't realise what they are risking when they go cycling without a helmet.

The musos' club has plans for a repower, a new roof, a wheelchair toilet and an "OP" group

Your say: Prisoner rehabilitation; farming v cycling; free speech; Queens park re-naming

is ethnic profiling deciding who comes into NZ and who stays out?

Gran was devastated when the rest home was sold and she had to move.

Let the council know what you think, they will listen.

Kate Stewart goes under cover to look for love

Fresh Fruit is one of the best pleasures of gardening, writes Gareth Carter

COMMENT: PM is absolutely right when she says it will cost motorists next to nothing.

Readers have their say on the cosmos; velodrome; nuke-free Denmark and the Russian scourge

There may be quiet now but, believe me, they are talking.

John Key's biggest regret - hoisted by his own flag petard.

We need protections for victims and offenders -- because they are largely the same people

US propaganda sees one stray missile turn into invasion threat