We give our MPs pay rises, no matter how well or poorly they perform, and they are appraised every three years through the election process

Have you got a couple of hours spare to lend a hand this Saturday?

Northern Advocate editor Craig Cooper says there is much more work to do to make Whangarei a tourist paradise, with the town hiding a dirty little secret about safety.

I suspect Friedrich Hundertwasser is having a good old laugh at the drawn-out process that the Hundertwasser Art Centre proposal for Whangarei has become.

In the end, I couldn't watch. Or listen. I turned the radio off, driving into town.