"Principled Realism" is an inapt name for this policy. How about "Reckless Complicity"?

Council 'tank tax' should be flushed down the loo.

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Forget pop-up stores. The catch-cry to "shop local" needs to be louder.

Don't be pressured into tipping by Paula or anyone else

Donald Trump may be a world-class narcissist, but that doesn't mean he's crazy.

New funding will help DOC manage the impact of tourism, protecting at-risk species.

Four similar robberies and no arrests is hardly a deterent

Idiotic fee for septic tank owners; Murky Marton water; Borrows trial and more . . .

More on ferries, food trucks, council planning and interpreting the Treaty of Waitangi.

Letters to the editor -- readers have their say

Terry Sarten routs the trolls of the twitter-verse

Police Ten 7 - what it's really like for the boys and girls in blue

The modern restaurant - big on description, small on food

The submissions process -- from both sides

Lady mayoress leads call for council ban on plastic bags

They are bitten, kicked and slapped in the course of their work - and paid very little.

Shabby new walkway; Who stole the pages?; Media overkill on Comey.

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Why do you have to be behind bars to access the support you needed prior to offending?

A courtroom spectacle in which two MPs made a melodrama of their own fearfulness.

Why shift the library? Graffiti epidemic; Ferry tales; Ikitara Rd slip repairs.

The street protests are now in their second month, and 40 people have already been killed.

With regional councils more often than not you pay through the nose to deal with dropkicks

Run-down cemetery; Logic at last; Letters v email; No Maori rebellion; the law and heresy.

A cyber attack on UK's National Health Service highlights how vulnerable we are

Why not open up the Whanganui River for riverboat tourism the way it was a century ago?

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Farmers play Russian roulette with their most critical and fundamental asset, the soil.

Readers letters