Lobbying For Good with Erika Harvey YouthFest 2025 was our biggest youth-led event yet! Every year during Youth Week, Youth Voices Action hosts YouthFest to celebrate the creativity, talent, courage, and leadership of... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny Some people's habits annoy. Like a roasted sesame seed that gets under a dental plate and rumbles around. So, I hear. Those trivial, petty, but exasperating habits of others that live rent... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz Today, let's talk music competitions... Firstly, the AMA, the Aotearoa Music Awards 2025. I was outraged. Outraged I tell you. Not at the interruptions. No. Musicians... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder Roger Pieki Jn in a recent study says that there has been no tropical cyclone of hurricane strength anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere so far in 2025. If we get to June 5 - which looks... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Wind back the clock to the 1960s; jumps races took centre stage in winter thoroughbred racing and jumps jockeys were the kings of the sport. There was a series of big... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz I wanted to highlight three shows today. But first, there is so much happening that occurrences not strictly time-sensitive get delayed. And delayed and delayed. One... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny It's a story that needs to be told. Right here, right now. Sounds like that Fatboy Slim anthem. Right here, right now… Especially now the tumult has died, now that the smoke from... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid When the first bout of the 41st North Island Golden Gloves kicks off in Tauranga on Saturday, there will be one substantial change from the inaugural North Island event... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny 'Whatcha looking at?” she asked. I was on the street staring down at a smidgeon of grass, a little bit of berm. Now she was staring at the same bit of grass, but not seeing what I was... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz Blue, Blanc, Rouge. Photo / Supplied I realise that while sequels are popular in Hollywood, they are less encouraged in newspaper columns. Nonetheless, this is something... Read More

A message from Mayor Mahé with Mahé Drysdale It's often said that the nature of a community can be judged by the health of its voluntary sector. Based on the outstanding stories told about the organisations... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Last week, I made a passing reference to the eight Kiwi golfers who preceded Ryan Fox in climbing the big mountain of winning a PGA tournament in the United States. John... Read More