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

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