Blogs
03:59pm Fri 27 Jul, 2018
Kristin Dunne Tourism Bay of Plenty We all know the Bay of Plenty simply sparkles in summer as one of the New Zealand's holiday hot spots. From sun-kissed days at Mount Main Beach to capturing the essence of Whakatane on the Kohi... Read More
03:15pm Tue 24 Jul, 2018
Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz Each Saturday afternoon since Sideline Sid has been on his Queensland sojourn, he has received a mid-afternoon text with the days Baywide rugby results. The Baywide... Read More
11:35am Tue 24 Jul, 2018
Active Voice with Dave Clark Coaching & Development Team Leader At the midway point of 2018 some exciting new opportunities to better support coaching and talent development across the Bay of Plenty are beginning to emerge,... Read More
11:47am Mon 23 Jul, 2018
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
11:17am Fri 20 Jul, 2018
Spotlight on... with Janne GuitarGirl Born in Auckland, Tony Lee remembers when he and his sister used to sing along while his mother played piano. He also had a few piano lessons when he was seven. He learned to play the clarinet,... Read More
11:16am Fri 20 Jul, 2018
Angie Warren-Clark Labour MP Have you been feeling the cold over the past few weeks? Yeah, me too! Which is why, for every New Zealander aged 65 and over who receives New Zealand Superannuation or a Veteran's Pension, as well as... Read More
11:16am Fri 20 Jul, 2018
Simon Bridges National Party Leader simonbridges.co.nz The loose and untargeted spending by this government is a major issue New Zealanders are constantly raising with me as I travel the country to connect with communities. Whether... Read More
11:14am Fri 20 Jul, 2018
Straight from city council A personal view, by Councillor Steve Morris Half serious, I once asked an MP whether local government was an invention of central government to distract and amuse the public so they could do what they... Read More
11:13am Fri 20 Jul, 2018
John Arts Abundant Living www.johnarts.co.nz As an exercise, I did a Google Scholar search for 'arthritis oxidative stress'. I knew that there have been many research papers on the subject of arthritis and free radical damage,... Read More
11:01am Fri 20 Jul, 2018
Brian Rogers Rogers Rabbits www.sunlive.co.nz The big news this week: I found a street open in the CBD to drive on. It was so good to find a road open for traffic, I drove it twice, just to be sure. I'd like to tell you... Read More
04:13pm Wed 18 Jul, 2018
Weather Eye with John Maunder A sunspot is a relatively dark, sharply defined region on the solar disc - marked by an umbra (dark area) which is 2000 degrees Celsius cooler than the effective photosphere temperature. The average... Read More
02:36pm Wed 18 Jul, 2018
Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz What do you give a seventy something year old, for his birthday - a ticket to the Broncos verses Warriors NRL premiership match at Suncorp stadium in Brisbane last... Read More