The crucial stats pertaining to general quality of life for Maori have been in free fall.

No matter how much is spent making roads safer, incompetents will still cause accidents.

Waiting lists are out of control, with a waiting list being created for the waiting list.

The Facebook wizard has reassured the timid lions, tin men and scarecrows of Congress.

I will buy locally from a business I trust, and my money will stay in the community.

Russian-speakers must accept that Latvia's endangered language and culture come first.

Central government needs to devise a new system, and what more appropriate time than now?

COMMENT: Industry anger with Govt baseless given global shift away from fossil fuels.

In the country there was no food problem but no money for essentials like medicine.

Heavy-handed action reflects badly on police and Immigration NZ

The council has seen sense over the much-loved Mosquito Point rope swing.

Thank goodness we are not going to throw any more dollars at stopbanks.

We know there are a number of residents with limited means to pay additional rates.

Readers speak out on the 'grievance industry'; the Pope and hell; abortion and fluoride

The PM said: 'It's not where the future lies." I didn't know the future was so close.

Terry Sarten is off to Nelson to play at a special guitar event – the Resonator Festival.

Kate Stewart looks at how to solve the housing crisis

Job cuts in banking and at IRD raise the spectre of a second Industrial Revolution at hand

No system devised by human beings is invulnerable to manipulation by other human beings.

Exploration ban could become a source of pride

Art in hospitals goes back a long way on Whanganui history

Many refuse to accept any of it happened and the rest think 'They should just get over it'

You can't argue that you support regional New Zealand while taking away key projects.

It's a sad day when the US President is crudely, amusingly evocative of an ambling primate

Thank you to the organisers of Artists Open Studios for a job well done.

A police squad stricken by a fictitious malady intimidates unsuspecting elderly? Really?

Pope Francis is clearly uncomfortable with the idea of God as the eternal torturer.

I don't know about you, but I can never seem to find a towel when I need one.

People just don't realise what they are risking when they go cycling without a helmet.

The musos' club has plans for a repower, a new roof, a wheelchair toilet and an "OP" group