Sallies in the front line as Kiwi kids go without the basics

Held up at a railway crossing? Think again before you curse those trains.

OF is something to cherish. We all get older, and it depends on what you want from life.

Virginia Lake is a lovely place, but its deterioration is saddening.

Brazil's democracy is now the weakest it has been since military rule ended.

We urgently need to reinstate a Wildlife Enforcement Group

There's more thrown being rubbish on the road berms. What happened to "be a tidy Kiwi"?

Readers have their say on religious intolerance; racial 'privilege'; and Israel Folau

I'm chilled, laidback, likeable ... your affable First Bloke, but I don't brag about it

I'm amazed by the media and content that is an insignificant puddle of dross.

How to spot an internet addict

Dressing gowns get a dressing down at cinema where sartorial style matters

Whanganui council should have hidden construction site for Anzac service.

The most common response to unwillingness to meet a standard is to lower the standard.

A dog has fallen down the city centre drain ... and a horse ... and two gentlemen

Some may argue that this is saving capitalism, but evolution is better than revolution.

The greatest mentors in my life never had to explain themselves. They led by example.

Not all autistics are locked into being Rain Man people (from the movie).

Four weeks is plenty of time to study cracks appearing in coalition government

Ardern's "acceptance" of Trump's missile strike on Syria was diplomacy at its best.

From solemn parade to 'positive patriotism' - how Anzac Day has been kept alive

Nurses are at the front line of health services, from the cradle to the death bed.

Overpopulation, coupled with land growing export crops, raises the spectre of famine.

I'm all for personal choice, but I deem butt-picking inappropriate, so I go out for a word

The Waitotara Conservation Area is a tramping backwater ripe for developing greater use.

White helmets, unprotected in T-shirts and jandals, "save" poisoned people. Totally fake.

Readers get it off their chest -- bad language; news reporting and fluoride facts

How's the weather with you ... and what does it all mean?

Donations that are far from generous -- dumpers plague the op shops

It's bad enough subsidising Aucklanders' sorry arses, now we've got to feel sorry for them