This week has been longer than most for the B-boys of politics - Brown and Banks - yet the way their separate-but-linked scandals have been treated raises some interesting questions.

Dear oh dear, Auckland mayor Len Brown has certainly got himself in a right royal mess and it just seems to be getting worse by the day.

There's a certain twisted comfort in knowing our "best before" date as a nation - sometime around Christmas

A killer was jailed for a minimum non-parole period of 23 years on Wednesday.

Despite the certainty that a significant proportion of global climate change is being driven by man-made factors, sceptics continue to at times dominate debate.

The youth brawl that broke out among pou carvings in central Hastings this week once again highlighted a social issue that needs fixing, but some good has come out of it.

Those waiting for the over-hyped "negative" election campaign promised by fifth-columnist Simon Lusk seem destined to be disappointed