The garden will be completed in time for the centenary of Passchendaele, finally a place of peace where far too many young NZers died in the horror of war.

EDITORIAL: Donald Trump is already a monster in the popular imagination - especially in this country.

The turnout for the Auckland Council election was profoundly disappointing. What has happened to the hopes once held for a unified, strongly led city?

Due to the crimes of Russian hackers, the little-known term "therapeutic use exemption" has gained currency in New Zealand.

How disappointing then, that yet another one has let rugby down.

COMMENT: Helen Clark's push for the top United Nations job failed through no fault of her own.

How many times over the years have we seen the junior doctors' union complain about the unconscionable hours they work in public hospitals?

Voters need to assess which of candidates looks more capable of doing so. The elections matter and so does your vote.

Some of our successful recent Olympians have drawn public attention to the salaries paid to those who dispense taxpayers' money to athletes.

Otago researchers have found differences in health outcomes for babies born under the care of midwives compared with those looked after by doctors.

This year's Mood of the Boardroom found more concern about the housing market than might have been expected from business leaders.

If Hillary Clinton wins the US presidential election in six weeks' time, a great deal of the credit could go to her demeanour in last night's first debate.

Arnold Palmer, who died yesterday aged 87, was a kind of father figure of golf for the generation that grew up with television.

Among our eight universities, one should be capable of making its presence felt in the English-speaking world. Auckland should be up there.

The collapse of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's marriage spells the end of the portmanteau term "Brangelina".

Serious questions require to be answered about the size and format of the competition.

The beauty about New Zealand's quota management system for commercial fisheries was that it would be self-policing, in theory.

If the US turns inward and protectionist under its next President, trading countries will look elsewhere for global progress.

Very few New Zealanders have ever seen the Kermadecs, a subtropical arc of islands 1000km north of New Zealand.

The latest steps proposed by the Govt to try to curb this country's high rate of domestic violence do not appear likely to make much difference.

The sentence given to Nikolas Delegat for assaulting a policewoman has been widely condemned.

With next election just a year away, John Key looks likely to deliver National a fourth term, the first PM to achieve that feat since Sir Keith Holyoake.

Hillary Clinton has stumbled, verbally and physically, in the past few days.

Larger countries may be able to protect their own steel makers but New Zealand needs to think carefully.

The irrepressible Tim Shadbolt's three decades as a mayor - at opposite ends of the country - could end next month when Invercargill voters pass judgment.

New Zealand Rugby's chief executive Steve Tew has conceded, "we have not got it right".

Teachers in Auckland this week held the first of 50 planned stopwork meetings around the country over a Government proposal called a "global budget".

It is a relief that a G20 summit hosted by China produced nothing worse than a dispute over steps the US President would use to alight from Air Force One.

It is too soon to say the market has turned, but it might be wise to wait and see.

A new political party aiming to represent Indian and other Asian immigrants ought to be welcomed by all New Zealanders.