Just like the fate of real possums, that paralysis can be fatal.

COMMENT: There's no ignoring what's happening with the weather all over the world.

Volunteers save the ratepayers and the Whanganui District Council staff time and money.

Clerical child sexual abuse is a matter of scale, not wishful thinking and spin.

Upcoming elections will determine if Jakarta moves forwards or regresses.

Let's turn on some lights so we can see the mushrooms in their true light.

When is a robin not a black robin? When it lives in Bushy Park.

Masters Games opens in style in Whanganui -- even the Unruly Tourists couldn't spoil it

How strange the past looks through today's politically correct perspective

Terry Sarten: Is there such a thing as an incomplete rascal?

"What do you think we should do with people who do bad things?"

This council is doing a good job in trying to reduce its debt, however . . .

So why do people use their mobile phones while at the wheel?

If we want bird life, we need healthy bush. If we want healthy bush, possums must go.

Djokovic, Nadal and others play on in the shadow of the Australian superstar of the 1960s.

Simon Bridges is following in Richard Nixon's footsteps with politicisation of cannabis.

P stands for platinum, Page, plonker, pain, patient, puzzled, peck, pash, playful...

This is a problem for Venezuelans to solve, not foreigners — and least of all Americans.

Tourist locations are popular for good reason. Kyoto's reason is its temple gardens.

What hasn't changed is that we still wish to keep in touch and share our experiences.

The number of secondhand electric cars is increasing and so cheap to run.

The trail has had negative publicity about some sections, particularly in the North Island

Bangladesh is now a one-party state where about half the population hates the ruling party

Letters to the Whanganui Chronicle

Opera seemed the very apex of high culture: impenetrable and intimidating.

There is far too much talk about clutter, and it is time to declutter your thoughts.

COMMENT: 2019 marks the 10th anniversary of the dear old Secret Diary.

Imagine a New Zealand without vineyards, wonton soup, Diwali, Lydia Ko or Jerome Kaino.

With too little money for repairs to the Parapara, more closures are likely, says a reader

We still have a drastic shortage of state housing here in Whanganui.