Recently I read an article in The Australian newspaper about the cost of an aging population. It made the oft-repeated point that the burden of supporting the elderly is falling on the next generation. It…
Recently I read an article in The Australian newspaper about the cost of an aging population. It made the oft-repeated point that the burden of supporting the elderly is falling on the next generation. It…
When Emily Ahier was born at Pirongia in May 1911 it was around one month before her father, Aubin, died. Aubin and his wife, Julia, now had eight daughters and one son but Aubin’s grip…
I wonder how many of us applied for annual leave on the Friday, taking advantage of the Waitangi holiday to turn it into a long Waitangi Weekend. I suggest that if we’re honest, that will…
Misinformation is not new. Sometimes confusion reigns and wrong information is innocently shared. Sometimes tabloids make clickbait headlines that are wildly misleading, so you visit their website, and they make money. Now we also have…
Larrikins shooting pigeons in the Pirongia ranges were the cause of one of many fires that flared up there. These fires did a great deal of damage to the bush, scorching and killing trees at its edge….
A very important part of volcano monitoring is understanding seismicity, meaning earthquakes or vibrations that move through the Earth that we sometimes feel at the surface. Most volcanic earthquakes are too small to be felt…
Starting with catches, police in Cambridge responded to a family harm event last weekend where a male was reported for threatening to kill a female. He had left the address but was found to also…
Laughter met the introduction of a four wheeled wagon from Canada when Kihikihi farmer James Henderson brought it into the country. The contraption was considered a novelty but James predicted that the old clumsy two-wheeled…
The term “natural disaster” is a bit outdated. We have natural hazards, sure, but disasters don’t exist without us, and they are made worse by poor planning, decision making, and preparation. If an identical eruption…
I was speaking to someone who had recently travelled. “Do you know where your forebears are from?” she asked me. “I think there’s Welsh way back in the bloodline,” I said. “Have you ever been…
