Housing. It's been a topic that continues to plague the government in this their eighth year of sitting in the power seats. It's their

When the subject of gangs in our community comes up it's easy to dismiss it as something that doesn't affect us. We hear of violence

There's very little that can't be done online these days - from banking to dating to the weekly grocery shop. So perhaps we shouldn't

Up until a day or so ago I had no idea who Markus Zusak was. If he had sat down next to me and started yarning I would have thought

What are the annual events in your life? I am not just talking about your birthday, Christmas Day or New Year's Day because everyone

THE THREE "Te Arawa endorsed" candidates for the upcoming Rotorua Lakes Council election have been publicly revealed. And the story

New Zealand First's Mahesh Bindra had his private member's bill drawn from the ballot last week. Simply asking for a Land Register

COMMENT: The deeper I delve into the issue, however, the more I am struck by just how frightening the consequences of prohibition are.

THE way the last couple of days have gone for the New Zealand Olympic team, sports fans without Sky may not be all that worried right

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

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

Online publication of more decisions from our courts has come at a good time, given a perplexing sentence in Auckland this week. The

IT'S amazing what has happened to Rotorua house values in the past year. Though many experts predicted provincial centres such as

Harry Potter mania has once again swept across the globe. Billed as the eighth instalment in the series, Harry Potter and the Cursed

No one likes a sick kid. You feel sorry for them, but you don't want one next to you if they are not your own offspring. I learned

Olympics The greatest sporting show on Earth will burst into life in Rio next weekend, with New Zealand predicted to enjoy its most

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

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

Have you ever walked past someone and said to yourself: "geez he looks familiar - in fact he looks just like me?" I remember watching

If a medical emergency played out before you, would you know what to do? For most of us, it would be a call to 111 - but what about

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

COMMENT: Is it too much to ask that both parents take equal responsibility for their children? Or that their workplaces support them equally?

While a number of families have - much to our collective shame - struggled to put a roof over their heads, there has been much scrambling

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

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

Perhaps living at the bottom of the world has its advantages. Of course we're a long way from anywhere. You just can't get into a

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

It's long been said that it takes a village to raise a child but if you read the updated 21st-century manual it seems that all it