Recently Hastings District Council arranged a "building industries forum on residential land supply". It seemed mostly to be a PR

I spent a few days in Wellington last week and, boy, it was cold - the wind on one of the days just about blew me off my feet. I

Some of us not enamoured with catching Pokémon managed instead to catch the Hurricanes' clash with the Crusaders at the weekend. We

LAST week I went to Wellington to take part in the Labour Party's 100th anniversary celebrations and to speak at a seminar on the

IT'S NATURAL, we all want to give our kids the chance to be the best they can be. The most common fundamental question is: what should

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

Earlier this week, United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsburg told the New York Times that if Donald Trump became President

You know the story about how Maui slowed down the sun? Have you heard the modern tale about the electricity industry trying to slow

Before you decide not to enrol or vote these local elections, consider this: We're not just lucky to live in a democratic country;

If you weren't alert, you might have missed Maori Language Week. I didn't. I added two new sentences to my Maori arsenal: "One language

To be honest, I don't know what all the fuss is about this Pokémon Go craze that is sweeping the world and has even had an impact

On October 12, 1866, the Superintendent of Hawke's Bay, Donald McLean, drafted an ultimatum that led to bloodshed. It was a seminal

The U-Turn Trust oversees a number of projects - mainly those suggested by our Flaxmere community. True community development, derived

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

Recently i spent 18 days in Hawke's Bay Hospital. The only indication that I had a problem was during my annual medical. With this

I read a slightly disconcerting story the other day. It was a sort of medical/scientific story about how some people in white coats

So, the feared education hiatus is upon us. The cold gap we speak of in hushed tones - the two-week nether world of winter school

Recent developments in international politics have highlighted the uneasy attitude that politicians are beginning to develop towards

YET ANOTHER political peacock is possibly facing the feather-duster fate; this time it's the Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull. The

The Hastings District Council has finalised its 2016/17 budget with a proposed rate increase of 3.1 per cent for RA1 the urban area

Today's Hawke's Bay Regional Council meeting will be asked to release $80 million in public monies towards construction of the Ruataniwha

Burglaries are rife in Hawke's Bay as they are all over the country. I've read many stories where victims have complained about the

A recent rescreening of the QI game show featured a translation which amused me. A panellist said he knew how to say something quite

It takes courage for victims of crime to fight back and then to speak out about their ordeal. On Saturday we ran an interview our

Tomorrow, I and other regional councillors will be asked to confirm that all pre-conditions necessary for the release of $80 million

With the ongoing and ever-increasing cry and even cajoling to better customer service you'd be forgiven for thinking "customer service"

Te Aranga Marae has had a stream of visitors. We powhiri our manuhiri (group of visitors) to Te Aranga, which was made all the more

Yesterday's tragic story on Jordan Harrington-Dingley made for sobering reading. At just 20 years old, he went from what his mother

Organisational crises are a little like spilt milk. Most people want to swish away the spill and move on. But that could be a costly

I saw a brief promo clip thing on Sky the other night about the upcoming Olympic Games which are set to be staged in Rio de Janiero