AS THE silly season descends on us and - hopefully - so does the summer weather, opportunities to get together with family, friends

MONDAY They call me The Punisher but at the end of the day I'm just plain old Rodrigo Duterte, President of the Philippines, and

THE sixth anniversary of the Pike River disaster has been and gone with some new information exposed. Radio New Zealand's Checkpoint

I'M NOT known for quoting from The Bible, but Luke 21:11, "There will be great earthquakes ... famines and plagues ... and there

MacTRUMP Act 4, Scene 1: An alley alongside a luxury apartment building - in the middle, a boiling cauldron. Thunder. Enter three

I don't know about you but the last three weeks are proof that we're living in unsettled times. Depending on your point of view

The Honorable Chris Finlayson can come across as a rather cold fish, a tightly-buttoned intellectual. But yesterday he was all smiles

MOHAMMED Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected president, has now been in prison more than three times as long as he was in

Trump beat 'em all Jay Kuten (November 16) makes some good points about the US election but fails to deliver an accurate assessment. He

US PRESIDENT-elect Donald Trump announced on Monday that he will cancel the Trans-Pacific Partnership on his first day in office (January

By Steve Baron AT HIS last Whanganui District Health Board meeting it was extremely disappointing to hear board member Allan Anderson

WE NEED to continue the conversation about the US election. Unlike the deliberative process designed by the constitution's framers

JUST after midnight on Monday, November 14, New Zealand was struck by another severe earthquake. Initially recorded as a 7.5, it turned

I READ with interest a story in the Chronicle last week that reported on our mayor, Hamish McDouall, suggesting an option for Government

Since the 1950s farmers have been working to control erosion, but there's a lot we still don't know about the processes involved

Port upgrade With the recent earthquakes showing us how much we depend on highly vulnerable ferry crossings through a most unsuitable

"SAD thoughts trouble my sleep at night," said South Korea's President Park Geun-hye. "I realise that whatever I do, it will be difficult

BY MY definition, a millisphere is a "sphere of interest" of 1000th of the total world population; a region of roughly 7 million

WHILST quoting my humble hero, Leonard Cohen, last week, I was unaware he was dying. I'd recently shared a link to his latest album

Jurors' pay Who advocates for the jurors? It's a crime how little a jury member is paid for their time in this country. At $31

YOU can't but think Whanganui is on the cusp of something really big when you stand on the riverside and watch a massive ferry with

Under suspicion For some months Kiwibank has treated me as a robber suspect when I go in to pay a power bill. Until I take my hat

EVEN before Donald Trump hijacked the Republican Party, he was loudly declaring that the science of climate change, like Barack Obama

SOME months back, my racehorse-mad friend Tony -- the one of American/Italian extraction -- expressed grave fears about the possibility

Moonbeams 1.50pm, Monday, November 14. I am watching the TV news, waiting for the boffins to confirm that moonbeams played a role

THESE quakes have got me thinking about our own little patch of the Shaky Isles. As the shake the other night more than illustrated

QUOTING Tony Abbott's "Shit happens!" -- appropriately, this time -- it's been one hell of a US presidential election and a bad time

MONDAY morning started early, 12.03am to be precise. The house shaking and rolling, like a plane in turbulence. We were joined by

These quakes have got me thinking about our own little patch of the shaky isles. As the shake the other night more than illustrated

"IN TURKEY, we are progressively putting behind bars all people who take the liberty of voicing even the slightest criticism of the