Whanganui ChronicleHealth of waterways a concern for allBy Abby Matthews DISCUSSION around the state of water quality in New Zealand is not short of an opinion or two. Yet when it comes 31 Jan 04:45 PM
Whanganui ChronicleWorld must call Trump outAT A CONCERT in London in March 2003, as the Bush Administration prepared to invade Iraq in what would prove to be America's greatest 31 Jan 04:30 PM
Whanganui ChronicleEditorial: Why women gave up ironingOne of the weekend magazines recently showed it was prepared to ask the big questions ... At what point did ironing become the man's 30 Jan 05:30 PM
Whanganui ChronicleFred Frederikse: Music to Die! Die! Die! for ...For obvious reasons, the Whanganui Musicians Club skips the first first-Friday-of-the-month of the year - but we are all set to go 30 Jan 05:02 PM
Whanganui ChronicleFred Frederikse: Farewell tour for folk legendFOR obvious reasons, the Whanganui Musicians' Club skips the first Friday of the month in January, but we are all set for the first 30 Jan 04:45 PM
Whanganui ChronicleYour views: Readers' lettersExceptional care My brother Charles was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and, very sadly, we found he needed more care than we 30 Jan 04:30 PM
Whanganui ChronicleConservation Comment: Inaction will cost us moreFOR SOME years now I have been optimistic that the Governments of the world would come to their senses and actually do something about 30 Jan 06:29 AM
Whanganui ChronicleYour views: Readers' lettersUBI errors A brave attempt by Garth Scown (letters, January 21) to demolish the argument for a Universal Basic Income. Understandable 29 Jan 04:45 PM
Whanganui ChronicleYour views: Readers have their sayBalance needed The Chronicle recently published two "Opinion" articles on water conservation. Brian Doughty (January 16) gave a 28 Jan 05:45 AM
Whanganui ChronicleSteve Braunias: The Secret Diary of JanuaryAmerican buys New Zealand A wealthy American has bought land in New Zealand. Exactly how much land is undisclosed but documents suggest 28 Jan 04:33 AM
Whanganui ChronicleTerry Sarten: Solve the problems close to home firstI WAS somewhat amused by my column colleagues Fred and Jay sounding off on solutions to the tension in the Middle East. Here we have 28 Jan 03:20 AM
Whanganui ChronicleNicola Patrick: Exhale - it's back to school timeA COLLECTIVE sigh of relief is sweeping across the country - the school holidays are nearly over and children are heading back to 27 Jan 09:30 PM
Whanganui ChronicleKate Stewart: It beggars belief ...You can always rely on Sir Bob Jones to stir the pot. His comments last week about banning beggars certainly sparked some debate. With 27 Jan 08:55 PM
Whanganui ChronicleLack of goodwill shows on mining hearingsThe Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) is less than accommodating - if not unfair - in refusing to hold hearings on seabed mining 27 Jan 08:30 PM
Whanganui ChronicleEditorial: Worthy words from the River CityWhile atheists around the world took to the streets screaming: "If there is a god, why does he allow Donald Trump!", I was more usefully 26 Jan 05:16 PM
Whanganui ChronicleYour views: Readers' lettersRiverbank trees I see (Chronicle, January 17) that people are not happy with the riverbank clean-up. It has never looked tidier than 26 Jan 04:45 PM
Whanganui ChronicleChester Borrows: Respect, the mark of RatanaAGAIN, I have been privileged to be part of a group welcomed to Ratana Pa for the annual celebrations -- an occasion made more special 26 Jan 04:30 PM
Whanganui ChronicleFrank Greenall: Full house at the global villageEVERY four-and-a-half days, planet Earth's population goes up by a million. Whoa! Yes, we're well and truly in a new age. Some call 25 Jan 04:30 PM
Whanganui ChronicleParadise being lost by carelessnessBy Paul Dawson AS A PROUD Englishman and a historian, I am often struck by the European desire to give lessons to the rest of the 25 Jan 04:15 PM
Whanganui ChronicleDan Jackson: Constant wind blights work and playTHIS wind can just bugger off. Bugger off, I say. Weeks and weeks of endless gusts is enough to drive a fellow quite mad. The kids 24 Jan 04:45 PM
Whanganui ChronicleJay Kuten: The real basket of deplorablesAS Donald Trump took the oath of office, promising to defend and protect the United States Constitution, at least half the nation 24 Jan 04:30 PM
Whanganui ChronicleYour views: Readers' lettersPalestine impasse Neither Fred Frederikse's (Chronicle, Jan 10) or Jay Kuten's response (letters, Jan 18) is as dispassionate, thoughtful 23 Jan 04:45 PM
Whanganui ChronicleFred Frederikse: Brexit causes British dividemillisphere, n. a discrete region populated by roughly one thousandth of the total world population; a bit over seven million people 23 Jan 04:30 PM
Whanganui ChronicleGwynne Dyer: Davos -- The rich are worried" I CAN'T wait to see how the incoming administration deals with AI [artificial intelligence]," said US Secretary of State John Kerry22 Jan 05:00 PM
Whanganui ChronicleEditorial: A vintage weekend indeedIN YEARS past, one of Vintage Weekend's most enthusiastic fans was my mum. Weeks beforehand, she would rummage through boxes of fabrics 22 Jan 04:30 PM
Whanganui ChronicleEditorial: Reid's beaten the odds beforeIf Hadleigh Reid succeeds in his ambition to be the National Party candidate for the Whanganui electorate - and, indeed, makes it 20 Jan 06:02 PM
Whanganui ChronicleNicola Patrick: Cringing at the 'male, pale and stale' brigade[THE GLASS HALF-FULL Nicola Patrick] What makes you cringe? We know Waitangi Day makes our new prime minister cringe, and Bill English 20 Jan 05:03 PM
Whanganui ChronicleYour view: Readers have their sayBasic income Heather Marion Smith is weighing in on the Universal Basic Income debate, being touted as a need for people who can't 20 Jan 04:29 PM
Whanganui ChronicleTerry Sarten: Now is the time for outrageIt is a matter of some disappointment for me that a cough-laden lurgy of the past few weeks means I will not be performing during 20 Jan 04:06 PM
Whanganui ChronicleGwynne Dyer: Everybody take a ValiumWhen Napoleon invaded Russia in 1812, he took more than half a million troops with him, and he still lost. When Hitler invaded the 19 Jan 04:45 PM
Whanganui ChronicleChester Borrows: Think about visitors' goalsQUITE apart from the weather (enough said!), the topic of conversation over the summer break often turns to friends and family and 19 Jan 04:30 PM
Whanganui ChronicleYour views: Readers' lettersBilingual in the '40s I am informed by a Chronicle correspondent that a teacher at Maxwell School in the 1920s was obeying the law 18 Jan 05:00 PM
Whanganui ChronicleEditorial: Mobile chats shouldn't be sharedI'M SORRY. I didn't mean to eavesdrop on your private conversation. Nor did all the other people who felt compelled to listen in. In 18 Jan 04:45 PM
Whanganui ChronicleFrank Greenall: Where has John Key gone?THE new year seems to have started out with not so much a hiss and a roar as an eerie post-Keyxit lassitude. After so many years 18 Jan 04:30 PM
