When our professional working class cannot afford housing, we have a problem.

Havelock North shoplifting

There are reasons why there has been no cry of indignation from union.

Not living in the Tukituki electorate could come back to bite National candidate.

Rare display of co-operation between twin cities in 1920s.

Visitors can truly connect with a new installation at the MTG

Isn't it about time we started looking at another option where all farmers could benefit?

Good ideas not well planned.

Round-up of the week's racing.

Tiger Woods, Ronda Rousey, Michael Phelps' cases are aired but so many live with bullying.

It is not practical to expect the water quality at Lake Tutira to change overnight.

Linda Hall's earliest memory of the Manawatu Gorge is not a nice one.

Christmas is coming and flab is coming off in an eight-week lifestyle challenge.

Hastings hospice's move a natural evolution, more a philosophy than bricks and mortar.

Call me old fashioned but I thought the regional council was meant to look after water.

The simplest things in life are best...and the most enduring.

The election hoardings are up so this means the campaigning has begun in earnest.

The divide that exists is one between those who pollute for profit and those who won't.

Quake memorial bears inscriptions of comfort for survivors

People will choose to live in and near the city, if it is attractive and well planned.

Anxious wait to discover which films will roll in to Bay

As lambing season approaches dogs need to be contained

It will take decades to clean up the environment we are already living with.

You can go off sheep.

Our welfare system is broken

Plastic bags - what's the best option for us?

War memorials act as markers or "historical touchstones" which remind us of the past.

New police chief's focus on family violence a winner for all in Hawke's Bay.

'Service' is all to do with relationships ... positive and negative.

Linda Hall: So much that's more important than a child's appearance.