Last week we were booked to attend a function in Wellington and elected to wrap a larger series of visits around the central core. With three married daughters in the greater Wellington area this is…
Last week we were booked to attend a function in Wellington and elected to wrap a larger series of visits around the central core. With three married daughters in the greater Wellington area this is…
Cambridge Community Board has spent the last two months closely engaging with our community on Cambridge Connections. It has been a time of frustration and stress for some members of our community, and we have…
Following on from last week, thanks to those who attended the recruiting seminar last Wednesday. It was great to see the interest. I also want to thank the residents of Roto-o-Rangi who attended the community…
It is difficult to imagine how much a landscape can be transformed by an eruption, rendering large swaths of land unrecognisable to locals who knew it well. It is the task of volcanologists to understand…
If you’re into fishing with a rod and reel, it’s likely you’ve seen a ‘bird’s-nest’ occur. It’s a horrible tangle of bunched up line that forms when an excessive amount of your line flies off…
I do not understand why the idea of imposing a capital gains tax is such a political no-no in New Zealand. Amongst Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, some form of capital gains…
When I previously wrote about the Environmental Protection Authority’s Annual Report on 1080 poison (The News January 25, 2024), I commented on an incident involving dead bees and stated that 1080 may be contaminating honey….
Great news to start, the vehicle responsible for the burnouts on Shakespeare Street by Kingsley Street that I mentioned in a recent column, has been identified, located and impounded last week. Investigations continue into the…
As a volcanologist I work hard on local and international research projects and I thrive spending long physically demanding days on volcanoes. I am also in pain almost every single day. May is Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome…
In 1969, when the successful moon landing astronauts landed back in the Atlantic Ocean, they clearly came off a high of world appreciation and folded themselves back into society – albeit with a long public…
