Given the unrelenting attacks by regional council chairman Fenton Wilson on councillor Tom Belford, the Ruataniwha water storage scheme (RWSS) must be in dire straits.

They are calling it the "born free" general election- a staggering 20 years after the first democratic elections there.

As winter sets in comes news some of the most potent treatments in the modern medical armoury, antibiotics, are now as likely to be completely ineffective as curatives.

This week the newsroom fielded ample duck shooting forewarnings, ostensibly covering off every possible contingency of its perils.

A century after the "war to end all wars" began, what have we learned about conflict and how best to resolve it?

Anzac Day has always held a very special place in my life, writes Andrew Austin.