Experts shed light on subjects from state of our waterways to climate change.

I'll never again fall into the trap of an empty angle park when I stop for my morning brew

Winston Churchill, were he still alive, would be a rampant Brexit Remainer.

Traffic jams a tribute to big-city living that most of us moved here to escape!

Claims of endorsement of vaping are simply false

COMMENT: Peterson is bringing the degradation of public discourse into sharp relief.

Why can't we be more prepared to be inclusive, to share, to be tolerant of each other?

Gwynne Dyer on the "Little Ice Age", when the tens of millions of native Americans died

Fred Frederikse Mapping the Millisphere, "a new millennium travel story"

The [Ruapehu summit] is spectacular terrain but also spectacularly perilous - Derek Schulz

Conservation Comment: Are we getting to soft?

Why bother having your own opinion anymore when you can just adopt someone else's

This Valentine's I also wish for security and stability in loving homes for our children

Everyone has a right to express their views

The world needs its leaders and role models. Our community needs its voices of reason.

Govt is talking subsidies for electric vehicles and cyclists using public roads at no cost

Scientists seem untroubled by signs that the north and south magnetic poles will switch.

Only an estimated 30% of people leaving prison have had any effective rehabilitation

We need a significant overhaul, changing the world food system on a scale not seen before

Could New Zealanders ever do the Wilde thing and lay off slaughtering animals?

I'd welcome these refugees; it would be heartless not to. But is this being done right?

For refugee resettlement to succeed, there needs to be a significant community buy-in.

You will be missed Sue Westwood

The Tengger people coped with the tourist hordes by writing their own development plan.

If we're taking refugees who want to be NZers and and indulge in our culture, that's great

If we cannot house ourselves, how is it that we are able to house refugees?

Actually, I'm joining the majority — 95 per cent of humans never fly.

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Readers get if off their chest - 'God's laundry maid'; Masters makes splash; property woes

The current state of the union requires us to be united in finding solutions