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‘Ready Aye Ready’

'A lot and a lot of fun,” says Ordinary Cadet Dominic Hahunga, enthusing about sea cadets. 'Ordinary' by rank only because the 14-year-old cuts a fine dash... Read More

Going against the grain

It's the difference between a no-nonsense, gun-toting California Highway patrolman and our own unarmed, considered and popular top traffic cop Tauranga Police's... Read More

Feeling the love

'One Love, one heart…” 'Let's get together and feel alright…” Bob Marley felt the love, and so will thousands of party-goers this Waitangi... Read More

Zen moments on an ebb tide

'Rowing is a sport that resonates with certain individuals at a very deep level and it gets to be like a calling.” A spiritual take on rowing from Yale University... Read More

We’ll play, you pay

It won't be a matter of winning or losing, it will be a matter of turning up and raising some funds. The junior rugby players at Greerton Marist Rugby Football... Read More

First for Tauranga airshow

Visitors to Classics of the Sky - Strikemasters at Sundown on Saturday will see the first local display of a new aircraft to the air show circuit. The Royal New... Read More

Waiting for an angel’s blessing

'I am going through a divorce and will find myself in a position that could have a devastating effect.” It was an email to The Weekend Sun - a plaintive appeal... Read More

The difficulty of leaving town

They're about four months old, all fluffed up and cocksure and ready to confront the world head-on. But with nature, if things can go wrong they probably will.... Read More

Sandcastle spectacular

A sandcastle doesn't have to be two buckets of sand plonked on top of each other and adored with sea lettuce and a shell or two. And during summer Brett Muir definitely... Read More

The mysterious story of Stinga

Sellars and Stinga have been left battered but not bruised. Kathy Sellars didn't win the SunLive Baypark Demolition Derby, but would do it again - and Stinga puttered... Read More

A colourful start to 2017

Start the New Year off right with a splash of colour. The 2017 Colour Splash festival will be at Mount Maunaganui's Coronation Park on January 14 from 12pm-4pm... Read More

High in the skies

The skies above Tauranga City Airport will reverberate with the sounds of fast jets and some of the fastest land-based vehicles in New Zealand at the second annual... Read More