National's KiwiSaver HomeStart helps New Zealanders into a modest first home. Since the Government launched the scheme, it has helped

I have followed the saga of the downtown redevelopment project with keen interest over the past few months. Last week, someone articulated

According to the Sensible Sentencing Trust, our police are struggling to deal with a worsening "P epidemic". The trust claims New

State Highway 2 from Tauranga to Waihi is known as one of the most notorious stretches of road in the Bay. It has claimed numerous

Every year about this time when the cold days and dark nights of August come around I start making promises to myself that I am going

A 24-hour liquor ban in Te Puke can only be a good thing. This week councillors on the Western Bay of Plenty District Council policy

How flattering of Hillary Clinton to borrow fashion tips from Helen Clark while they both audition for top jobs. It was Prime Minister

New Zealand's native birds and plants are a treasured part of our nation's identity. We use symbols of the kiwi and the silver fern

Celebrating is something that transcends cultures, demographics and history. No matter when you were born, in what country and even

There are a lot of good rugby yarns shared after a post-match battle on a footy field. Over the years, just like a Chinese whisper

There is something about the Olympic Games every four years that is simply irresistible to me. They call it the Greatest Show on

Turning 18 is a big deal in New Zealand. Once you're 18, you can drink, vote, smoke, buy scratchies, place bets at the TAB or use

They've been the best of times, surely, free of war and famine, well fed and medicated, never needing to bother about things that

No matter the circumstances, the loss of a young life is always a tragedy. Shargin Stephens, who died on Tuesday nearly two weeks

Observation and knowledge of reality are topics that raise all sorts of prickly philosophical questions, chief among them the one

The International Olympic Committee's decision not to ban the Russian Federation from the Rio Olympics is a blow to clean athletes

I was about 10 years old when my brother shot me in the knee. The .22 calibre bullet ripped a small hole in my corduroy trousers

Are you a donor? By that, I mean are you registered to give your organs, or body parts, to someone who needs them in the event of

As a society we seem to be getting more and more lazy. Far-fetched as it may seem, it does make me wonder if one day we really could

What better way to encourage people to recycle than by paying them to do it. That is essentially what Tauranga City Council voted

It's hard in today's connected, catalogued world to go off grid and be intrepid. Unless you're prepared to go to some fairly extreme

It's a mind-blowing level of corruption, even for Russia. A report commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency has revealed that

Over the weekend I went to the greatest game of rugby I have seen. It wasn't the skills, or the score, that made it so outstanding

United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsburg recently told the New York Times that if Donald Trump became President she would

You've got the whole world in your hands, was a huge hit in the '60s and it could be making a comeback. If you can rewind the memory

It seems to have been a fortnight of violence. America is in the most volatile state I have ever seen after police shot African American

To be honest, I don't know what all the fuss is about this Pokemon Go craze that is sweeping the world. For those of you who have

Everyone should watch Fox News a few times a year, if only to be reminded of why women have legs. It's certainly not for walking. I

YOU would think that Barack Obama must be counting down the days until his term as United States president comes to an end later this

National believes New Zealanders deserve high-quality health services and delivering better services remains our top priority. At