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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Active Voice with Rachel Garden Keep on Your Feet Project Leader Twelve months in to the Sport Bay of Plenty's Keep on your Feet seniors' initiative and the results speak for themselves: Over 940 people aged over 65 have already... Read More

Alisha Brady from enableMe Tauranga When you celebrate a birthday that has a zero at the end of it, people reassure you it's the new 30! Be it 40, 50 or 60 - they're all the new 30. But according to Hannah McQueen of enableMe,... Read More