Looking across at the United States, we see a huge leap back to days of Nazism.

For legions of refugees on the run from slaughter, it's raining every day.

The collective wisdom of 2.6m voting NZers is statistically superior to that of 120 MPs.

Husband-and-wife teams running authoritarian regimes seem to have a high casualty rate.

'Everything our volunteers do makes a difference to people with heart disease.'

Once the use of gas is eliminated, what will heat homes and cook meals?

The little shop that's perfected making it an 'experience' to go there

A country's greatness can be measured by the way it provides for its most vulnerable.

In the 1950s and '60s, the Young Farmers movement boasted some 12,000 members nationwide.

Traffic plans for St Hill St have upset motorists but, things could have been much worse.

Resource centre already provides a great service

The right to choose how and when to depart this life is that of the individual concerned.

A few intrepid artisan cheesemakers using raw milk have established themselves in NZ.

Letters to the Wanganui Chronicle

Kate Stewart talks about mobile phones

Rachel Rose on funerals in New Zealand

COMMENT: Kim was very open, very honourable, very smart, very worthy, very talented.

The public believe overwhelmingly, in spite of the evidence, that crime is on the rise,

Readers discuss fluoridation, the downing of airliner MH17 and end-of-life preferences.

There is evidence that rumours of an insidious North Korean shrink-ray may be true.

The two countries will move, slowly and crabwise, towards mutual nuclear deterrence.

$1.5 million saving on wastewater plant a symbol that the dark days are behind us

Why should banks have such a privileged position in our economy?

Automation will eventually eliminate at least half the existing jobs.

Eliminating plastic bags might be subject to the law of unintended consequences.

It is no great wonder that the edifice of church power has crumbled in Ireland.

COMMENT: Our approach to suicide isn't working very well.

Eventually, looking like I was in the world mud wrestling champs, the job was done.

That the world would be a better place without "the great powers" is hard to deny.

"Incarceration by medication" has been the past solution by the "experts".