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06:30pm Fri 18 Mar, 2016
A llama gets an infection in its feet from flies or a dog swallows an entire pack of Voltaren - and Tauranga's Paul Griffin has the camera rolling. These are the... Read More
05:30pm Fri 18 Mar, 2016
How much love is there in a barbecued sausage? If love is a measurable thing and can be quantified in $15 bags of Mad Butcher snags then the answer is about 120... Read More
04:30pm Fri 18 Mar, 2016
From green balloons and four leaf clovers to leprechauns and a green-coated Gandalf off Lord of the Rings, Irish spirit was flowing in Greerton last night as the... Read More
03:30pm Fri 18 Mar, 2016
Since this is my first piece for The Weekend Sun I thought I should introduce myself and explain what food is to me. After all, what you choose to eat is the single... Read More
02:30pm Fri 18 Mar, 2016
She should be the poster girl for microchipping. That's Jazz, the pig dog, who was re-united with her rightful owner five years after going 'missing in action”... Read More
01:43pm Fri 18 Mar, 2016
Maringi Marsh will talk about the utopia of race unity and learn about the unity of different cultures as she does it. Maringi, a student from Mount Maunganui College,... Read More
01:30pm Fri 18 Mar, 2016
'There's no more plumbing to be done.” That's the unsettling cold, hard reality that teenager Nakita Griffiths lives with. Grown-up issues, life and death... Read More
12:30pm Fri 18 Mar, 2016
'Let there be light,” said the good book. And there was instant light. Kelvin Jones is also 'willing” there to be lights at the Bay Oval but so far... Read More
11:28am Fri 18 Mar, 2016
Great news for our community and for our advertisers and readers of The Weekend Sun. The latest Nielsen readership survey figures have just been released. The latest... Read More
09:55am Fri 18 Mar, 2016
Sheila Hanlen asked her 12-year-old son Josh what he'd like to do - continue taekwondo? Start boxing? 'He was playing PlayStation and he said he wanted to do what... Read More
04:07pm Fri 11 Mar, 2016
There's plenty of activities for your four-legged friends at Tauranga SPCA's 2016 Pet and Family Fun Day this Saturday. From 10am-2pm at Historic Village, there'll... Read More
03:02pm Fri 11 Mar, 2016
Little did Sarah Carr know that when she potted a couple of plants it would result in a brush with death, then seriously compromise her ongoing health and her career. 'I'm... Read More