At 9:35 am on November 1 1755, the people of Lisbon, Portugal experienced between six and nine minutes of ground shaking. A fault had ruptured offshore Portugal in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, causing the event…
At 9:35 am on November 1 1755, the people of Lisbon, Portugal experienced between six and nine minutes of ground shaking. A fault had ruptured offshore Portugal in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, causing the event…
A cold unpleasant night greeted my arrival in suburban Paris. Walking up the steps from the deserted dimly lit underground Paris Métro to the street above, I re-read directions for ‘La Rue’ where I had…
At last, a political party in New Zealand has been brave enough to include a capital gains tax in its policy platform. The United Kingdom has had one since 1965, Canada since 1971, Australia since…
In the end, it fizzled out with barely a whimper. The Newcombe Road quarry saga made headlines during the local body election campaign. Yet it wasn’t council intervention that resolved the standoff. It was the…
It seems like every week there is another scam reminder. This week it’s one that looks like it comes from us – New Zealand Police – but it didn’t. A lot of people have reported…
Last week in Wellington I was lying in bed getting ready to sleep when I thought I felt the rumblings of a large truck going by. It died down, then a stronger shake hit. The…
It’s been remarkable that few if any mainstream media outlets seem to have awareness or care for reporting recent news filtering out of Cabo Delgardo region in northern Mozambique. Violent attacks began in Cabo Delgado…
Not too many years ago the (then) New Zealand prime minister told his Australian counterpart at a CHOGM meeting in Melbourne that the westward drift across the Tasman of prospective Australian residents ‘would benefit the…
Landowners across the Waikato have once again stepped up to protect and enhance our environment, partnering with Waikato Regional Council to complete 347 voluntary environmental projects in 2024/25. Together, these efforts have retired 1140 hectares…
Each week, I review the past seven days of reported incidents in Cambridge in preparation for writing this column. As always, our team responded to a wide variety of calls. This week, we attended four…
