I will buy locally from a business I trust, and my money will stay in the community.

Russian-speakers must accept that Latvia's endangered language and culture come first.

Central government needs to devise a new system, and what more appropriate time than now?

COMMENT: Industry anger with Govt baseless given global shift away from fossil fuels.

In the country there was no food problem but no money for essentials like medicine.

Jacinda Ardern has established herself as one who will be praised for generations to come.

For a time I'm as happy as I was when I discovered Australians really do cheat at cricket.

Heavy-handed action reflects badly on police and Immigration NZ

The council has seen sense over the much-loved Mosquito Point rope swing.

Readers speak out on the 'grievance industry'; the Pope and hell; abortion and fluoride

The PM said: 'It's not where the future lies." I didn't know the future was so close.

Terry Sarten is off to Nelson to play at a special guitar event – the Resonator Festival.

Kate Stewart looks at how to solve the housing crisis

Job cuts in banking and at IRD raise the spectre of a second Industrial Revolution at hand

COMMENT: Let's take a look at the climate in New Zealand.

The environment we find ourselves in has a distinct impact on our behaviour and wellbeing.

No system devised by human beings is invulnerable to manipulation by other human beings.

Exploration ban could become a source of pride

You can't argue that you support regional New Zealand while taking away key projects.

It's a sad day when the US President is crudely, amusingly evocative of an ambling primate

Thank you to the organisers of Artists Open Studios for a job well done.

A police squad stricken by a fictitious malady intimidates unsuspecting elderly? Really?

Pope Francis is clearly uncomfortable with the idea of God as the eternal torturer.

I don't know about you, but I can never seem to find a towel when I need one.

People just don't realise what they are risking when they go cycling without a helmet.

The musos' club has plans for a repower, a new roof, a wheelchair toilet and an "OP" group

Matagouri was used used by tattooists, can puncture tyres and and improves the soil.

'Your paper reflects an exciting city in an exciting and interesting and intelligent way.'

Your say: Prisoner rehabilitation; farming v cycling; free speech; Queens park re-naming

is ethnic profiling deciding who comes into NZ and who stays out?