Jane NeesBOP Regional Councillorwww.janenees.co.nz The Minister of Local Government, Hon Paula Bennett, gave a very clear message to the local government sector at its conference last week. She thinks we should call time on the debates about how... Read More

Andrew von DadelszenFormer Regional Councillor Regional Councillor Jane Nees, in her editorial last week, posed the question 'Where do we find the funds?” saying that Local Government has a major funding problem. Answer? No, it doesn't. It... Read More

Matt CowleyTauranga City Councillor Thank you to those who shared their thoughts on how they want to be represented on Tauranga City Council. After considering all the feedback, the next election will continue the current make-up of elected members,... Read More

Catherine StewartTauranga City Councillor The format of last week's Community Connections meeting, held at Papamoa Library and Community Centre, was informal with areas around the community centre allocated to Papamoa Progressive Association, Papamoa... Read More

Karen StantonActive Families AdvisorSport Bay of Plenty The Ministry of Health says a child needs sixty minutes of physical activity a day. This will help your child develop strong muscles, bones and joints, develop a healthy heart and lungs, maintain... Read More

Karen StantonActive Families AdvisorSport Bay of Plenty The Ministry of Health says a child needs sixty minutes of physical activity a day. This will help your child develop strong muscles, bones and joints, develop a healthy heart and lungs, maintain... Read More

Sideline SidSports correspondant & historian www.sunlive.co.nz If there was any doubt that rugby is the game of the Western Bay of Plenty, those doubts were well and truly put to bed last Saturday, when three Baywide Club Rugby Finals were played... Read More

Weather Eyewith John Maunder Arctic sea ice extent for June 2015 averaged 11.0 million square kilometers, the third lowest June extent in the satellite record. This is 920,000 square kilometers below the 1981 to 2010 long-term average of 11.89... Read More

Jane NeesBOP Regional Councillorwww.janenees.co.nz Local government has a major funding problem. Community expectations are increasing, government keeps on pushing more requirements onto local government without associated funding streams, costs... Read More

Beautiful Youby Suzanne Edmonds Each week, beauty enthusiast Suzanne Edmonds explores the best ways to take care of ourselves so that we love the skin we're in. In the third and final column in my series on regulation of the beauty industry I would... Read More

Brian RogersRogers Rabbits www.sunlive.co.nz Interesting that the Nasa had to send a probe through space for 10 years to get to Pluto. Typical Americans, make a drama out of everything. I found Pluto in my lunch hour. Took a walk up Devonport... Read More

Matt CowleyTauranga City Councillor Congratulations to Jetstar. The airline is asking for regions to put their best pitch forward to attract their service - a low-cost subsidiary of Qantas - to fly in and out of NZ's regional airports. It caused... Read More