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Rachel Stewart: Freed from hope but not hopeless
COMMENT: By clinging to hope people become deluded that things might change.
Whanganui Museum: Celebrating native birds
This week the Whanganui Museum celebrates native birds.
Ian McKelvie: Gun reforms don't restrict access to gangs
Ian McKelvie discusses gun reforms.
Nail salons - the new boom industry in Whanganui
Frank Greenall discovers nails are the new boom industry in Whanganui
Letters: RSA facilities gone in club amalgamation; fix the bridge
Your letters to the Whanganui Chronicle
Mars closure will be major and significant
Big task to create 150 jobs for Mars workers.
Jay Kuten: Impeachment - what does it mean exactly?
Folks here are imperfect in their understanding of impeachment - here's the lowdown.
Letters: Madness at Whanganui intersections
Your letters to the Whanganui Chronicle
You won't believe where people used to think babies came from
Explaining where babies come from sometimes causes slight discomfort for some people.
Should we separate the work from its creator?
Terry Sarten contemplates whether we should separate brilliant work from its bad creator.
Letters: Council must ask right questions
Too many projects have been poorly conceived, poorly designed and poorly managed.
Editorial: Climate action pivotal to how our leaders will act
Much is riding on a climate change rally in Whanganui this Friday.
Behind the news: Listen as we recap the big stories of recent weeks
Listen as your hosts Zaryd Wilson and Simon Waters discuss the latest news.
What women need to know about their cancer risk
Comment: What I believe health authorities are not telling women.
Comment: We get the councils we deserve - so make your vote count
Russell Bell shares his thoughts on the local body elections.
Evaporated milk prices leave farmers crying over spilled profits
Comment: Not for the first time, hard-working farmers are feeling hard done by ...
Letters: Kiwis will roar about oil
Kiwis know they're being fleeced and that the Government allows that fleecing.
Comment: Do you vape? It's killed eight people so far
Comment: Oils combined with THC or nicotine at high temperature are believed responsible.
Whanganui's population boom is good and bad. Now we need a plan.
Whanganui's decline is over. Now what?
Letters: NZ Post 'death spiral', that pesky 'H' and rugby world cup flags delight
Your letters: The H, world cup flags, NZ Post in death spiral
Letters: MP unaware of Climate bill urgency; reality check on Whanganui port
Ian McKelvie is ignorant of the connections between our actions and climate change.
Conservation Comment: Paradise lost timely lesson
Our ancestors arrived to a land teeming with life in clean rivers and abundant forests.
Conservation comment: From waste to win-win-win
Australia will spend $10 million to relocate native fish from a river down on its luck.
Letters: NZ Post fails to deliver a service, land claim "half-baked" idea
Your letters: NZ Post on the move
Rob Rattenbury: The most useless men's apparel revealed
The humble necktie ... perhaps the most useless item of men's apparel ever?
Do we dare to dream of the All Blacks lifting the Cup?
Comment: Looking back at 1991-2011 - 20 painful years in the rugby wilderness.
Significant Ōtaki to Levin expressway on the back-burner
Rangitikei MP Ian McKelvie bemoans lack of vision around transport and roading.
Comment: Can PM Ardern avoid a Lermontov style disaster?
The open waters of Cook Strait beckoned. What could possibly go wrong?
Rachel Stewart: Farm leaders in dance over freshwater plan
COMMENT: Finally long-delayed "action plan for freshwater" discussion document has arrived
Jay Kuten: Reality TV and American war and peace
War in Afghanistan has no rationale, no actual legal basis, no clear reachable objective.
Comment: Turakina and Whangaehu backbone of the farming community
Turakina is more than one of those places which you pass through on the way to somewhere.