COMMENT: The Govt fire service reforms will entrench present problems and create new ones.

A Waterways Act that puts all water bodies in trust for future generations would be timely

COMMENT: People have known there is a problem with our waterways long before new report.

The state of Hawke's Bay's local waterways is in crisis, writes Trevor Le-Lievre.

Hawke's Bay Regional Council Romans unmasked by one of their own.

COMMENT: Anzac Day should be used to talk about what it means to be a New Zealander.

Winston Peters criticised a story about immigration. The Herald responds.

Farming is improving its products to meet environmental and nutritional demands.

Two damning reports on farming greeted by Government silence, says green campaigner.

Sadly comedian John Clarke is not coming "back Friday", but he has left an immense legacy.

COMMENT: The Government is changing the way it makes decisions on trade.

COMMENT: At the moment Winston Peters is a little more than an irritant for PM contenders.

COMMENT: Move to cage-free eggs is more like business-saving PR, says Paul Little.

Any commercial operation turning water into money should expect to have to pay.

There was plenty on offer to bolster the trade between our two countries.

COMMENT: If we are charging for water, farmers probably should pay for it, too.

OPINION: The principle that nobody owns our water hasn't stopped water bottling companies from gaining ownership for free.

As you crack that egg into the pan to spit away with the bacon, spare a thought for the hen who produced it and the porker who grew

COMMENT: New Zealand clean and green? Try mean and short-sighted.

COMMENT: Donald Trump evidently has a primitive view of international commerce.

OPINION: 2040, you may recall, is the year this Government plucked from the carbon-emission-filled air, to promise that 90 per cent of NZ's lakes and rivers will be swimmable.

COMMENT: Moral implications seem a bridge too far in decisions on management of key resource, opines Rachel Stewart.

COMMENT: The $80,000 bill for a Trump Inauguration Gala was money well spent.

There are two weird seasons going on. Firstly, the skies can't decide if it's summer or winter.

In "clean, green New Zealand" just 72 per cent of rivers, streams and lakes are considered safe for swimming and it will remain that way for a while.

COMMENT: The Government's plan to clean up waterways is an attempt to look as though action's being taken, when in reality nothing's happening, says Mark Dye.

COMMENT: Personal battles are waste of energy when tackling climate change requires us all.

It didn't take an Einstein to get who Bill English was really talking about at his Chinese New Year dinner speech, Fran O'Sullivan writes.

Malcolm Lumsden was recently stopped by a lady pronouncing that "I was one of those irresponsible farmers who allowed their cows to 'pee and poo' everywhere resulting in our rivers all being polluted"

COMMENT: Is the end of the Trans-Pacific Partnership the death of open economies or just a setback, Brian Fallow writes.