Clayton Mitchell New Zealand First MP Reforming our firearm legislation has been a major point of discussion for all New Zealanders. Tragic events last year unveiled inadequacies in firearm licensing and management systems. New... Read More

Winston Watusi Music Plus There's been a lot of folk around town recently, and I mean that both ways. A bunch of tourists are still on the beaches and there have been frequent sightings of banjos, harps, fiddles and other accoutrements... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz While we all look with awe when world sporting records are beaten and significant international marks overcome, they almost certainly will be broken one day in the... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder Temperatures have been recorded in the Tauranga area at several sites during the last 100 years, including the current Tauranga Airport site from June 1990. The graph above shows details of the average... Read More

Clayton Mitchell New Zealand First MP Over the weekend, Simon Bridges announced that National would refuse to work with New Zealand First after the next election. I believe this is strategic error for Bridges and I agree with the... Read More

Winston Watusi Music Plus Love is in the air: only a short time now and we can embrace the romantic charm of St Valentine's Day. Regular readers might be surprised at a jaded sceptic such as myself waxing enthusiastically about... Read More

Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch There are a lot of problems to solve this week in our beautiful but tortured land. The Bay of Plenty has become just that lately - plenty of crime, plenty of rough sleepers and beggars and plenty... Read More

Simon Bridges National Party Leader simonbridges.co.nz One of the great things about living on the East Coast is our proximity to the ocean and all the benefits that come with it. Although it has been a while since I've been... Read More

Angie Warren-Clark Labour MP It might not be something we think about often, but infrastructure keeps our country going. We rely on our roads and rail network to get to work, take our family on holiday and stock our supermarkets.... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz The first recorded cricket match was played in Nelson in March 1884 between the surveyors of the New Zealand Land Company and a Nelson side. In those long ago times,... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder Temperatures have been recorded in the Tauranga area at several sites in the last 100 years, including the current Tauranga Airport site from June 1990. It's very common for areas such as Tauranga... Read More

Winston Watusi Music Plus So that was January was it? A twelfth of the year gone already? Now we're on to February but, good news, public holidays just keep rolling in. We all took the beginning of this week off to celebrate... Read More