Farmers must put their energy and innovation towards achieving the targeted outcomes.

Communication requires dialogue. Txting doesn't count.

Take a moment for yourself - so we're ready for the next big environmental battle.

Letters to the Wanganui Chronicle

Our culture now offers more than once dominant pastimes

What next for prison inmates? KFC, aromatherapy or electric chair with star energy rating

COMMENT: House is a bit of a mess but I pledge to have it clean by the end of the week.

Giving bullies a dose of their own medicine wouldn't go amiss.

Banks talk about putting the customer first and top-notch service -- it's absolute hokum

This is an essentially random and purely local case of "monkey see, monkey do" behaviour.

Someone gets shot and, for a brief spell, it's all about the gangs

Subtle tongue-in-cheek nuances winked lasciviously at me until I came to understand.

Beehive thefts and Beehive leaks have been keeping police busy lately.

Fans are feeling short-changed after Sky relinquishes rights

Being pro-life now means pro-population control. "The times they are a-changing."

If we could bottle Don Brash's boring cadences, we'd have a cure for insomnia.

Malcolm Turnbull is the fourth prime minister in a decade to be ousted by colleagues.

We may have just stumbled over the tripwire that has underpinned our economy for years.

Our Government should be buying farms and turning them into landfills.

Paul Brooks reflects on the combined Cossie and RSA clubs' new name.

We're going to find out which way Turkey and the US jump quite soon.

The colonial Pakeha sovereignty model hasn't worked too well for Maori to date.

Readers get it off their chest: Rubbish bags, assisted dying, the Treaty and Donald Trump

We don't want a load of old cobblers in Whanganui ... but one would be quite nice

Politicians going places: No budget, no pre-approval ... and they're spending our money

Domestic violence is increasing -- so is the work to combat it

Why are we so reluctant to use that word?

COMMENT: Am I the Prime Minister of Australia? What is Australia?

Nearly everything we buy at supermarkets is encased in plastic of some description.

A young Māori male has a better chance of going to jail than achieving Level 3 NCEA.