Clayton Mitchell New Zealand First MP I hope the Queen's Birthday Weekend gave all of us the opportunity to spend time with our families and visit our local tourist sites. New Zealand's tourism industry definitely needs all the... Read More

Jan Tinetti Labour MP With around 27 per cent of Tauranga residents living with a disability, the announcement in Budget 2020 that there will be a massive increase in funding for disability support services will be very welcome... Read More

Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch The events industry has taken a hammering over the past few months. Nothing to do and nowhere to do it. I can almost hear the impatient shuffling of our youths and bohemian types as they anxiously... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder Rainfalls for the month of May have been recorded in Tauranga since 1898 - except for 1904, 1907, 1908, and 1909. The graph shows the range of rainfalls from an extreme high of 634 mm in 2005 to a... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz For more than a century, the Queen's Birthday holiday weekend was a pinnacle weekend for punters, with the staging of the Great Northern Hurdles and Steeplechase... Read More

Angie Warren-Clark Labour MP After 2 weeks at Alert Level 2 this past week saw our cabinet once again review the alert status at Level 2 and the outcome saw two major announcements come out. The first was that although we remain... Read More

Winston Watusi Music Plus While many things seem almost normal again, the music scene is currently living in limbo. Actually, I think that's true of a lot of Tauranga; this slightly confusing winding down of levels has left... Read More

Straight from city council A personal view, by Councillor Steve Morris If there's one thing the world could do without these days, it's politics without compromise. Our political culture is influenced by the battle between left... Read More

Clayton Mitchell New Zealand First MP As we face the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on our economy, New Zealand First's flagship policy - the Provincial Growth Fund - will be crucial in rebuilding our regions. It was recently... Read More

Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch There's a song from a guy called Afroman that I think would be the perfect theme for this year's election. Yes, there is a massive health crisis facing the world. Borders are shut, people are... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz The return of greyhound racing at the start of May became the springboard for a remarkable feat by Palmerston North greyhound trainer Lisa Cole. On Friday, May... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder The chart below shows that since 1979, when reliable satellite observations became available, there has been little overall trend in the average tropospheric temperatures, apart from milder/warmer temperatures... Read More