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09:59am Fri 27 Jan, 2017
This week the judging panel for the TrustPower Photographic Exhibition faced the monumental task of examining and scrutinising more than 1740 photographs in order... Read More
09:11am Fri 20 Jan, 2017
'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
08:46am Fri 20 Jan, 2017
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
08:45am Fri 20 Jan, 2017
'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
08:43am Fri 20 Jan, 2017
'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
08:42am Fri 20 Jan, 2017
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
08:41am Fri 20 Jan, 2017
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
07:51am Fri 13 Jan, 2017
'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
07:50am Fri 13 Jan, 2017
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
07:48am Fri 13 Jan, 2017
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
07:47am Fri 13 Jan, 2017
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
07:46am Fri 13 Jan, 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