Inside City Council A personal view, by Councillor Andrew Hollis OK...where to start? When I campaigned I campaigned on low or even no rates increases. News last week suggests that Tauranga City cannot complete planned capital... Read More

Straight from city council A personal view, by Councillor Steve Morris The second instalment of your rates bill was due this Friday. To many, it comes as no surprise that the February 2020 invoice is higher than last year; 3.99... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz Last Saturday morning, Sideline Sid decided to take his constitutional (walk) down at Fergusson Park. The picturesque Tauranga suburban oasis was a frenzy of activity... 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

Winston Watusi Music Plus As we all look at the skies awaiting rain, music continues to pour into Tauranga. I'm sure there's a pile of it that I miss. But I do try to keep up, mainly via a series of undercover Watusis spread through... Read More

Jan Tinetti Labour MP Leaving teaching was one of the hardest decisions I have made but I don't regret it as I'm am very proud to be part of a Government which is achieving so many positive things in the education sector. There... Read More

Straight from city council A personal view, by Councillor Steve Morris In 2009, Whanganui National MP Chester Borrows introduced a bill to Parliament to allow Wanganui District Council to ban the wearing of gang patches in their... Read More

Simon Bridges National Party Leader simonbridges.co.nz Every week we're hearing more and more reports of gang related violent incidents and Tauranga is no different. What we've seen in Tauranga lately is like LA style gang warfare.... Read More

Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch We've heard a lot of stories about Coronavirus lately, or Covid-19 as its now affectionately called. Like most people, I take the 'it's-not-all-over-the-place-here-yet-and-hopefully-we'll-have-a-vaccine-before-it-is'... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz Born in the shadows of WW2, Sideline Sid has been on the sideline of some amazing changes (some good - some bad) over the last seven and something decades. Sid... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder Monthly rainfalls for Tauranga have been recorded at several recording sites during the last 122 years. From January 1898 to December 1904, the observation site was described as the Tauranga Harbour,... Read More

Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch I guess it will all end when they run out of guns or gangsters. It doesn't pay to be too flippant about such things. But when gang wars start in peaceful suburbs and violence erupts in rural idylls,... Read More