Latest from WC - Opinion

Rachel Stewart: Freed from hope but not hopeless

COMMENT: By clinging to hope people become deluded that things might change.

Letters: Council must ask right questions

Too many projects have been poorly conceived, poorly designed and poorly managed.

Comment: Do you vape? It's killed eight people so far

Comment: Oils combined with THC or nicotine at high temperature are believed responsible.

Letters: Kiwis will roar about oil

Kiwis know they're being fleeced and that the Government allows that fleecing.

Comment: Can PM Ardern avoid a Lermontov style disaster?

The open waters of Cook Strait beckoned. What could possibly go wrong?

Rachel Stewart: Farm leaders in dance over freshwater plan

COMMENT: Finally long-delayed "action plan for freshwater" discussion document has arrived

Comment: Turakina and Whangaehu backbone of the farming community

Turakina is more than one of those places which you pass through on the way to somewhere.

Call for New Zealand Wars remembrance day

COMMENT: It is not a pretty or honourable history, but we should honour it and the dead.

Russell Bell: Why there's no 'I' in team

Best business advice from local consultant Russell Bell.

Chester Borrows: Need to hit the right target

The risk aversion of police is such that they deny the return of many firearms licences.

Letters: Our cash for a petty civil dispute

Why is the New Zealand Government getting embroiled in this pitiful debate?

Letters: Reading between the (vote-for-me) signs

Who'd vote for candidates who can't read English or who try to sidestep regulations?

Letters: Pollution hotline an exercise in futility

The numbers show how grossly sub-par HRC is when compared with other councils around NZ.

Letters: Time to look at better building

Multi-storey timber buildings have already been erected in London and Australia.

Chester Borrows: Voting in prisons a tiny step

There are a number of arguments in favour of allowing inmates to vote.

Letters: In the dumps over humps

I'm beginning to understand how Humpty Dumpty felt, and he wasn't even in a car.