Conservation Comment: Native fish need our voice
More than half of our remaining freshwater native fish are now endangered.
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Your view: Whanganui councillor clarifies position on waste survey
Readers write: Councillor on that survey; your brief; 1080 row; separate health services
Terry Sarten: The Secret Diary of a Secret Diarist
Terry takes on the Secret Diary of the Secret Diary of Steve Braunias
Our view: Keep smiling -- we're on the telly again
Kerry and Clayton -- can they win? What a double whammy that would be for Whanganui
Nicola Patrick: A difficult time to be a politician ... but we're not all bad
Does mud from Parliament reach all the way to provincial politics?
Oscar's last walk - he deserved better from the humans he met
It's better that dogs have emptied their bladders before they die. Less mess.
Kate Stewart: Pass this woman a man-sized tissue to cry into
Tissue company Kleenex can no longer market 'man-sized' tissues. Kate's not happy.
Steve Braunias: Secret Diary of Judith Collins
COMMENT: Judith Collins stayed just two steps behind Simon Bridges this week.
Editorial: Bring back the rubbish trucks
Our dump fees are outrageously high ... so what's the solution?
Letters: Bring back our mecca of coffee
We are left in the heart of the CBD with a stark, under-used area for outdoor relaxation.
Peter Lyons: Financial Armageddon isn't coming just yet
The financial sector still regards itself as 'too big to be allowed to fail'
Letters: Walk the Avenue at your peril
I have walked the footpaths in most NZ cities and have never seen anything so disgraceful
Opinion: Unions there for man in the street
That group known as the working poor are an important part of our economy and society.
Conspiracy or democracy? Waste survey fires up residents
The survey is just one of many factors informing councillors' decision on the issue.
Ian McKelvie: Army Museum 40 years young and well worth a visit.
The heart of what they do in telling personal stories is about remembering the fallen.
Frank Greenall: You just couldn't script it
Perhaps art visits us daily in the guise of reality TV with all its vacuous grotesquery.
Gwynne Dyer: INF treaty - idiots on both sides
Trump reacts to Russia's provocation by threatening to tear up the INF Treaty.
Letters: Glyphosate safe if used correctly
There have been no higher-than-usual rates of cancer or other problem here.
Jay Kuten: Murderous darkness taints Saudi fossil fuels
Saudi Arabia annually cuts off more heads than Isis has done in all its years of existence
Gwynne Dyer: Saudi regime secure for now but killing was a terrible blunder
A hit team murders a dissident Saudi journalist ...
Letters: Exorbitant fuel taxes 'creating child poverty'
It's time for a peasants' revolt targeting this greedy Government, not the fuel companies.
Kevin Page: Treading the boards brings rewards
Acting runs in the family -- I was a king at nursery school; Mrs P was a tree.
Law Talk: Spying on staff raises many issues
A reminder that computer use is monitored and video surveillance operational may be enough
Letters: Colour me not that green
'The disadvantaged will cop this rate no matter how little they use the service.'
Conservation Comment: Children save native plants
DOC, museum, Horizons and enviroschools work together to help kids connect with the forest
Peter Williams: Make cannabis legal for personal use
Opinion: The world will not be any worse off with legalised dope.
Your say: 'Mom and Pop' investors at risk from carbon credits trade
Your say: Look out mom and pop; pension pain; Bruce Gordon's car; customer service is key
Editorial: No good or bad dogs, only good or bad owners
The number of dog attacks has fallen, but we're not graduating obedience school just yet.
Time to put brazen deceit behind us and recognise the man who designed Whanganui's most iconic building
Donald Hosie was one of 843 soldiers in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Kate Stewart: Pay teachers more if you like, it won't make a blind bit of difference
Our teachers deserve a far better deal than they currently have
Steve Braunias: Secret Diary of Jami-Lee Ross
COMMENT: The saga of rogue MP has this week transfixed the nation.
Letters: Emergency forced council's hand
It's bad that it took a real emergency to force the council's penny-pinching hand.
Chester Borrows: The man in the news and the man who should have been
One man a slow-motion train wreck, and the other a model of grace and servitude.