By Dr Nelson Lebo AS Donald Trump feebly attempts to "pivot to the centre" it appears that Europe may be pivoting right. Brexit was

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AS A single man I didn't seem to feel the cold. I had a little heater that I would plug in for an hour or two on the coldest nights

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WHANGANUI has been given an opportunity to grasp a much needed economic windfall and the Government has offered it to us free, yes

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

Question: Who is likely to be more effective in setting inmates at Kaitoke prison on the right path? (1) Someone who perhaps shares

RAWDON CHRISTIE I'd just like to say there is no truth in the rumour that TVNZ are thinking of replacing me as the host of current

Our Prime Minister John Key keeps saying: "Housing is not in crisis" despite the rapidly escalating level of social and economic fallout

When you want to make a good argument it helps to have a bunch of statistics on your side. But what happens when the statistics

Whanganui Science Forum's June event saw Dr Richard Winkworth talking about genetic engineering. Dr Winkworth, who completed his PhD

THERE is hardly a week goes by that we do not hear a complaint to this newspaper about rates and council spending. Every election

Sometimes the Sensible Sentencing Trust fails to live up to its name. It thought it had a gotcha when it asked the Corrections department

Who knew that the modern British public had a taste for blood sports beyond rugby and footie? I thought the rise of Leicester to the

THE annual National Party conference was held at the Air Force Museum in Christchurch over the weekend. The conference was well represented

LET'S see if we can wade through the obfuscation around the impact of forestry harvesting on our district's roads. Whanganui Rural

Here's a story that I heard today from Wayne Dyer, and I would like to share it with you. It's a story that shows, if we change our

Here's a story I heard from Wayne Dyer, and I would like to share it with you. It's a story that shows if we change our perspective

Rick Ellis As the CEO of Te Papa, I am often approached by dealers of cultural artefacts which may be of profound interest to New

Not exactly a U-turn... more of a sideways pivot... but Whanganui District Council on Thursday decided to look at an alternative to

Half the year down and I'm feeling pretty stoked with the mix of challenges and opportunities I'm facing. I've only got two weeks

It was a small boat floating in a big sea. Two fisherman had dropped their lines in the hope of a good catch. Both had baited the

Who is clutch? I've had a bit of an obsession about that euphemism in the last few weeks when I've been watching commercials on ESPN

It's official .. I'm an orphan. The word is usually associated with kids but let's face it, regardless of age, we're all somebody's

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THEY say that achieving racial harmony can be compared to playing the piano in that you only achieve that harmony when both the white

HOW'S this for a prediction? An Oxford University academic reckons that within 10 to 15 years no one will be producing cars that