Observation and knowledge of reality are topics that raise all sorts of prickly philosophical questions, chief among them the one

Have you ever walked past someone and said to yourself: "geez he looks familiar - in fact he looks just like me?" I remember watching

If a medical emergency played out before you, would you know what to do? For most of us, it would be a call to 111 - but what about

As a society we seem to be getting more and more lazy. Far-fetched as it may seem, it does make me wonder if one day we really could

COMMENT: Is it too much to ask that both parents take equal responsibility for their children? Or that their workplaces support them equally?

While a number of families have - much to our collective shame - struggled to put a roof over their heads, there has been much scrambling

It's hard in today's connected, catalogued world to go off grid and be intrepid. Unless you're prepared to go to some fairly extreme

It's a mind-blowing level of corruption, even for Russia. A report commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency has revealed that

United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsburg recently told the New York Times that if Donald Trump became President she would

It's long been said that it takes a village to raise a child but if you read the updated 21st-century manual it seems that all it

We don't only get older, many get wiser as well. I thought so this week when in conversation with two gang members. One Mongrel Mob

This month we are celebrating 75 years of women being in the New Zealand Police. As a police reporter for this newspaper for more

It's alarming that a national charity that supports children in need says it is struggling to keep up with demand. The number of

Nothing changed at 8.01 on Saturday night other than my dreams got put on hold when the loot from Lotto went in three different directions

For many parents, the next two weeks will be met with a mix of relief and trepidation. School holidays bring that mix of feelings. First

We need to have a wee korero, Aotearoa. If you are reading this and don't know that korero means talk, then it's even more needed. It's

Everyone loves a good market and Rotorua will soon be spoilt for choice, with another to be launched in October. According to Rotorua

Both my grandfathers made it back from the Somme, which is miraculous. Commemorations this past week for that appalling waste of

Call it entrapment if you like, but something's not quite right about the Lotto fever. With Powerball's first division expected to

Not a lot impresses me these days. I guess it's the combination of having seen and experienced so much by so many in such a small

One of my first jobs at the Rotorua Daily Post 20 years ago was calling our lovely kaumatua Anaru Rangiheuea to ask for his comment

Like many who work in media, I'm a bit of a news junkie. I always read it, always watch it. I follow big stories obsessively. Scott

It seems lumbercube management may have been the only ones who saw yesterday's shock news coming. The sudden closure of the mill