THE worst-kept secret in town is now official - Whanganui is to be the nation's new capital city. Any day now, following extensive

Guy McPherson is nothing, if not controversial. His human extinction within 10 years prediction polarises people. And attracts large

WE HAD a bit of a Guy Fawkes evening the other night. It was all very low key. I brought home a large old washing machine drum and

EVENTS over the past two weeks in the rest of the country and now, with the vandalism and attempted arson of Whanganui's surf lifesaving

The news that Kerry James Borrows - aka Chester - is stepping away from politics prior to next year's General Election is not a great

Another White Ribbon Day last Friday, and another good crowd supporting the cause of ending domestic violence against women. It is

Looking back I realise I have had a privileged art education. At Parakino Maori School I was a day one student in the new modernist

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

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

THIS week is White Ribbon Week when family violence is at the front of our minds as a country -- that is, as a society that should

YES, God inflicted the June 2015 flood on Whanganui because of a scourge of parking fine defaulters ... as we know. We know, because

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

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

OVER the years I've dedicated a lot of column inches to quoting people far more brilliant than I in order to push my point with polish. A

THERE is an increasing trend in New Zealand and overseas towards offloading responsibilities for conservation action on to community

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