Blogs

Open Letter to The Government

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny Ey up! How you doin' my old sausages? And I am talking traditional Cumberland sausage here, chunky with a variety of herbs and spices and fit for a school lunch. There's 500 years of British... Read More

Ellerslie hosts NZ’s richest race meeting with $9m in stakes

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Last Saturday, Ellerslie racecourse in the City of Sails hosted the wealthiest thoroughbred race meeting ever held in the country. Almost $9 million in stake money... Read More

The Jazz Festival approaches

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz The Tauranga National Jazz Festival is a lunar event; dates change each year depending on the moon. Here's how it works: the core jazz festival is on Easter weekend,... Read More

A spotlight on CAB

Not Sure? Ask Us with Catherine Fletcher It's CAB Awareness Week! This is a time for putting a spotlight on CAB to celebrate our mahi and highlight to the community the help and services we offer. This year's theme... Read More

Giant of the forest has fallen

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny It's a local fixture, a landmark, high above the Daisy Hardwick and Waikareao Estuary - a flagpole reaching skyward from behind the fence of a stately old Pillans Point home. When the All... Read More

Curcumin for respiratory health

Abundant Life with John Arts | abundant.co.nz Curcumin, from turmeric, has benefits for many body tissue types. This means curcumin can help balance faulty chemistry that leads to disease. Today we look at the how curcumin... Read More

Embracing new beginnings

Lobbying For Good with Erika Harvey March signals change, a shift in seasons and a chance to embrace new beginnings. It's a reminder that progress is made one step at a time, but it starts with action. Across Tauranga,... Read More

The end of music as we know it?

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz Many musicians I know are talking about AI. Not just musicians, of course. But recently AI music generators have become widely accessible, in the way text and image... Read More

Mount Maunganui’s Bay Oval marks 20th anniversary

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid This Saturday is a significant milestone in the history of the Bay Oval at Blake Park in Mount Maunganui. It is 20 years to the day since the first sod was turned... Read More

The perils of an opinion

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny They'll be burning this heretic's effigy at the top of the driveway next. Or stabbing a voodoo doll with needles to curse me, bring me pain, misfortune and failure. All that can really... Read More

Investor migrant policy welcome in the WBOP

Chief Executive of Priority One with Nigel Tutt The Government's announcement to make changes to New Zealand's migrant investor visas is a welcome one. This scheme provides wealthy migrants with a New Zealand visa... Read More

From The Dark return from the past

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz 'The past is never dead. It's not even past.” So said William Faulkner, and though he was more exercised by ghosts of the gothic South, it's a quote that... Read More