Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid The White Ferns and Black Caps rewrite history. Our two national cricket teams climbed their own Mt Everest in the space of 24 twenty-four hours. First, the Black... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder My new book from Amazon -Extract from a few pages from Chapter 1: Damaging weather events inevitably lead to climate evangelists making apocalyptic claims of imminent disaster. UN Secretary... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny Let it go! Please just let it go!! It was 71 years, two months and 19 days ago by my reckoning - 26,013 days ago. So, can we just move on? Okay, there was a Union Jack 8849m up the world's... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz One thing to know about jamming and open mic nights: in Tauranga and the Mount they mostly happen on Wednesdays. Mostly. So, I donned my Secret Squirrel hat and Danger... Read More

Abundant Life with John Arts | abundant.co.nz The odds of winning Lotto and Powerball in NZ are about one in 38 million. The chance of getting knee osteoarthritis is just under 50%. OA usually starts decades before... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Whenever the story of New Zealand's biggest provincial rugby prize, the National Provincial Championship, is told, the inaugural victory of the Bay of Plenty Steamers... 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 cooler than the effective photospheric temperature. The average... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny It's a bit of a pig. And no matter how much lip stick and mascara we smear on it, it still oinks. What a shame. What an embarrassment. Because Tauranga Domain is a divine setting. Our... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz October on the music scene? Let me describe it in three words: busy, busy, busy. Three? That's how many gigs I wanted to mention happening next Saturday alone. Yes,... Read More

Not Sure? Ask Us with Catherine Fletcher You are covered by tenancy law even if your rental is an illegal premises, advises the Citizens Advice Bureau. Under the Residential Tenancies Amendment Act 2019, even if the... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid The tale of two good friends playing rugby at the turn of the millennium and their two siblings winning the same Boxing New Zealand National Championship title is not... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder Tauranga September Rainfalls 1898-2024 and Afternoon Temperatures 1913-2024. Rainfalls for the month of September have been recorded in Tauranga since 1898, except for 1904, 1907, 1908,... Read More