Catherine StewartTauranga City Councillor There has been a lot of comment in the media lately regarding cycleways and walkways. The Government and New Zealand Transport Agency will match council funding for cycleways to about 50 per cent of the... Read More

Matt CowleyTauranga City Councillor Our Central Business District is like other CBDs throughout NZ and overseas - they need to redefine their role in modern society. The way people shop and do business has changed the role of CBD's from last century. Tauranga's... Read More

Sideline SidSports correspondant & historian www.sunlive.co.nz At the risk of repeating myself at this time of year - the depths of winter in July always brings a smile to Sideline Sid's face, as we are over the hump of the shortest day and are... Read More

Simon NeateMarketing AdministratorSport Bay of Plenty Sport Bay of Plenty is a charitable trust that has a wide and varied approach to enriching lives through sport and recreation by assisting the Bay of Plenty community in becoming more active,... 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. This week Tauranga has been celebrated in the media for its sunny climate, which is... Read More

Weather Eyewith John Maunder Rainfalls for the month of June have been recorded in Tauranga since 1898 - except for 1904, 1907, 1908 and 1909. The graph shows the range of rainfalls from an extreme high of 381mm in 1925 to a low of 19mm in 1906. The... Read More

Simon BridgesNational MP simonbridges.co.nz On Monday evening I held a public meeting with Building and Housing Minister Dr Nick Smith and Bay of Plenty MP Todd Muller to talk about the Government's HomeStart scheme and how we can help people get... Read More

Jane NeesBOP Regional Councillorwww.janenees.co.nz Many communities in the Bay of Plenty do not have reticulated sewerage treatment, but rely on On-site Effluent Treatment systems - otherwise know as septic tanks. Unfortunately in some areas, for... Read More

Brian RogersRogers Rabbits www.sunlive.co.nz Welcome to the news regurgitated, a second helping of pigeon pie. We've had a lot of news this week and some of it has been newsworthy and some of it has been just plain not. First up on the 'not”... Read More

Andrew von DadelszenFormer Regional Councillor Food and beverages in 2012 was a US$21 billion export earner for New Zealand, and made up 10 per cent of the country's GDP and nearly half of our export earnings. This might sound impressive, but look... Read More

Catherine StewartTauranga City Councillor Elected members have been advised that the top three reasons people use Tauranga City Council's website is to look up information on rates, cemeteries and waste. Most people stay online for less than a... Read More

Matt CowleyTauranga City Councillor I don't blame people in other regions for making their own labels about Tauranga. They rarely hear anything about Tauranga other than advertisements for retirement villages. Whether we like it or not, these labels... Read More