Nigel Tutt Chief Executive of Priority One In previous articles I have talked about the need to develop higher value industries and jobs in the Western Bay. While this region is viewed by many as being well off, the reality is... Read More

Tamati Coffey Labour List MP As a member of a strong Labour Government, I recently received more than 30,000 signatures backing Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta's actions to strengthen Te Tiriti partnership commitments in... Read More

Winston Watusi Music Plus OK. Nearly Christmas. Footloose and Covid-free. This week I have three shows for you. First up a concert by the most excellent Grant Haua, who has spent nearly two years working on a future that is finally... Read More

Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch Few things get me more excited than a big infrastructure project. I love a big idea, the concept drawings make me tingle and don't even get me started on those videos that show the whole she-bang... Read More

Simon Bridges National Party Leader simonbridges.co.nz In my first post-election column a few weeks back, I said that one of my four priorities for Tauranga was transport. Tauranga is still a great place to live but there's no... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz Black Cap batsman Glenn Phillips smashed two centuries in six days at the Bay Oval, to bring further attention to one of the best international cricket grounds in... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder The graph shows the range of November rainfalls from 1898 to 2020 in Tauranga, from an extreme high of 285 mm in 1916 to a low of only 12 mm in 2009. The second wettest November was 1967, when 240... Read More

Jan Tinetti Labour MP Our Government has a proud record of investing in our schools, lifting the quality of the classrooms students and teachers spend so much time in. Already, we've provided up to $400,000 to almost every state... Read More

Todd Talks with Todd Muller National MP Here we are nearly at the end of the year and the new Parliamentary term has only just started. We had the Commission and State Openings of Parliament last week, very special... Read More

Straight from city council A personal view, by Councillor Steve Morris Congratulations, Your Worship, on being chosen by your community to lead Tauranga City Council. I look forward to working with you as you bring... Read More

Winston Watusi Music Plus I have always thought of the Tauranga music scene as pretty middle-of-the-road. But perhaps I've been wrong. That struck me the other day as I prepared to review another couple of local... Read More

Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch It doesn't take long before someone else comes up with something though, so the theme this week is Other People's Ideas. Firstly I'm going to shamelessly steal an idea from my old employer... Read More