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

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz Volunteers are the backbone of this great country. The commitment of hundreds of thousands of unpaid workers gives our nation one of the highest standards of living... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder During the last few months I have been writing my fifth book.The idea for the book came about when I was visiting my family in Adelaide in January 2020 during a heat wave. One day when the forecast... Read More

Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch A month ago we were all doomed to live in a diseased world indefinitely. But, hey presto, and now we have a whole bunch of vaccines to choose from. So now the mad scramble for vaccine supply... Read More

Winston Watusi Music Plus Is it wrong to keep patting ourselves on the back for being so lucky? After a while does it come across as hubris? I don't know. But I do know that the luck in question was to be... Read More