It will be an unfortunate backwards step if rubbish bags are not to be collected locally.

Nicola Patrick discusses the weather, climate change and starving polar bears.

Rocket Lab is about to launch NZ into the space business.

COMMENT: The Secret Diary is on holiday for two weeks. It may, or may not, be back.

80,000 individual students logged in release day, with a total 160,000 log-ins for the day

Water Safety New Zealand's safety code has four simple rules to follow.

Morphine is 3 or 4 times more costly in most lower-income countries. It doesn't have to be

The buck stops with us. We are reinforcing dumb misconceptions in our kids' world view.

Is banning the sale of Bulldogs the beginning of a ban on the breed?

NCEA exam results are out ... but NZQA isn't saying when

Wanganui is not "about the only town to use rubbish bags". Many cities still use them.

Trump is a racist: such a dyed-in-the-wool racist that he is virtually unconscious of it.

The vigilante response ultimately protects no one, neither victim, nor accused.

Walking is increasingly popular, so councils should be opening walkways, not closing them

40 and caught doing donuts ... why we need to grow up behind the wheel

Maybe a Syrian sister city would help us to get our lives into a new perspective.

A girl in South Africa is more likely to be raped than to complete secondary school.

Governance is different to government. It is not politics. Councillors aren't politicians

We humans are laying waste to our planet, At least chooks lay eggs -- something useful.

Are scams and marketing calls spelling the end of the humble landline?

COMMENT: Steve Braunias provides a 100% accurate forecast for your year ahead.

Jim Anderton nobly sacrificed his all-but-certain mayoralty to a greater need.

This year it feels like we are back on track and going somewhere. Better late than never.

Personalised penalties for wrongdoers make a great deal of sense.

The payment in March 2016 coincides with council acquiring $8 million for debt reduction.

Message to parking cheats: Whichever way you look at it, laziness is not a disability

"Many of us having our overseas pensions used to subsidise the NZ Superannuation payment".

Don't sweat the small stuff. Don't keep a scorecard. Stay alert. Drinking is out.

Never leave a living being unattended in a car, especially on a hot day. It's dangerous.

Jim, the driving force behind the forging of the Alliance, was a force to be reckoned with