Winston Watusi Music Plus Happy new year! Resolutions done and dusted? Ready for an exciting new decade? Once again we are outrunning various fictional attempts to imagine the upcoming year. We will not be fighting an endless... Read More

Winston Watusi Music Plus There are many traditions at this time of year. The last metaphorical grains of sand are about to slide through 2019's hourglass and increasingly tamped-down New Year's Eve celebrations will be... Read More

Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch I'm always a little bit optimistic about my New Year resolutions. I figure if you aim extremely high, then chances are when you come plummeting back to Earth, at least you might be halfway up the... Read More

Straight from city council A personal view, by Councillor Steve Morris A couple of announcements last week are arguably the most significant move by Government in Tauranga yet. Councils' borrowing is constrained by the Department... Read More

Clayton Mitchell New Zealand First MP The Mount was buzzing with activity on the weekend of December 14-15 with some very positive and inspiring events happening. There was a fantastic turn out for the Mount Monster race, with... Read More

Simon Bridges National Party Leader simonbridges.co.nz 2019 has been a big year and I hope you all enjoy a well-deserved break over Christmas and New Year and take the chance to spend some quality time with family and friends.... Read More

Winston Watusi Music Plus And suddenly it's almost Christmas. It happens like that. Sometime around October shops and supermarkets start playing Christmas music and selling candy canes from specially-themed displays. Then... Read More

Tamati Coffey Labour MP I want to thank everyone who has contacted me in support of my Improving Arrangements for Surrogacy Bill. With my partner Tim and I having experienced New Zealand's outdated surrogacy laws first-hand, it... Read More

Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch You know how some people are pretty easy to buy presents for and others are harder than the Da Vinci Code? I'm hoping you do, because frankly, you wouldn't want to be one of my relatives. I'm a... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz The last seven days have produced two big Bay of Plenty Cricket milestones, with a Western Bay of Plenty team winning the ND Senior Secondary tournament and a local... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder In the bleak mid-winter, Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone, Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter, Long ago. These words, from... Read More

Winston Watusi Music Plus Rick Bryant, whose funeral was on Wednesday, was in two of my all-time favourite Kiwi bands. His death wasn't as widely reported as I would have expected for a man who spent 50 years making great music... Read More