Catherine StewartTauranga City Councillor Improving customer service is always a focus of Tauranga City Council's Call Centre. In the past we had a third party contractor manage after-hour calls from customers. Now, any call to 577 7000 or email... Read More

Dazz SwitallaFlavour SecretsNo.1 The Strand Chef www.no1thestrand.co.nz There's something quite satisfying about creating your own meals from what can be produced from your garden.The freshness can't be beaten, when you're eating something grown... Read More

Matt CowleyTauranga City Councillor The 4.7 per cent increase in your residential rates to address stormwater issues has meant council can do two things simultaneously. Our top priority is to finish modelling the current flood levels across the... Read More

Catherine StewartTauranga City Councillor Tauranga City councillors are planning a workshop this week to review the last year - committee structures, what our priorities are and generally give feedback to each other. With seven new elected members... Read More

Sideline SidSports correspondant & historian www.sunlive.co.nz Every man and his dog that follows Bay of Plenty Club rugby has an opinion on what's going to happen next year - so here's Sideline Sid's tuppence worth. While Western Bay of Plenty... Read More

Weather Eyewith John Maunder The graph below shows the range of Tauranga's October rainfalls, from an extreme high of 357 mm in 1916 to a low of only 7 mm in 1984. The second wettest October was 1928, when 269 mm was recorded; and the second driest... Read More

Brian RogersRogers Rabbits www.sunlive.co.nz Summer's here and I know what you are all thinking. Wouldn't it be cool to walk on mud?No-one has really mastered the art of walking on mud. Some people have been walking on water for a couple of thousand... Read More

Brian RogersRogers Rabbits www.sunlive.co.nz Summer's here and I know what you are all thinking. Wouldn't it be cool to walk on mud?No-one has really mastered the art of walking on mud. Some people have been walking on water for a couple of thousand... Read More

Dazz SwitallaFlavour SecretsNo.1 The Strand Chef www.no1thestrand.co.nz Tofu is cholesterol-free, low in fat, high in protein and calcium - and has been around for hundreds of years in Asian cuisine, made from coagulated soya bean milk. A tofu... Read More

Dazz SwitallaFlavour SecretsNo.1 The Strand Chef www.no1thestrand.co.nz Tofu is cholesterol-free, low in fat, high in protein and calcium - and has been around for hundreds of years in Asian cuisine, made from coagulated soya bean milk. A tofu... Read More

Dazz SwitallaFlavour SecretsNo.1 The Strand Chef www.no1thestrand.co.nz Tofu is cholesterol-free, low in fat, high in protein and calcium - and has been around for hundreds of years in Asian cuisine, made from coagulated soya bean milk. A tofu... Read More

Matt CowleyTauranga City Councillor Our beautiful meandering harbour and estuaries make it really difficult to design a good transport system. Tauranga will inevitably have traffic bottlenecks during peak times because of our geography. Tauranga's... Read More