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Learning the law

Bay of Plenty secondary school students who want to get a taste of law and experience the thrill of the court can take part in the University of Waikato's 2016... Read More

Connecting the community

The Tauranga community will have the chance to connect with councillors and local community groups and discuss what's happening in their area at Tauranga City Council's... Read More

'Something you wouldn't expect'

'It's definitely one of those things you don't want to hear or believe.” But Alicia Necklen had to believe it, had to accept her two-year-old boy had cancer. 'Now... Read More

Families getting active

Fourteen families competed in their first ever Weetbix TRYathlon at Mount Maunganui earlier this year as part of the Active Families health programme. In February... Read More

'Check your blind spots'

A Tauranga woman is pleading with motorists to keep in mind that it only takes seconds to change a life completely. For the last 16 months Ellyse Larson Macrae... Read More

A dog's day out

Gary Jackson has trained about 20,000 dogsas a full-time dog trainer since starting his career 33 years ago, but the world-renowned talent doesn't own his own dog. That's... Read More

Runners versus cyclists

It was fixed stares and phone cameras at five paces. The runner and the cyclist glaring at each other, holding their ground, trading shots. 'What are you doing?... Read More

Going global with robotics

An opportunity to go up against the 'best of the bots' at the VEX Robotics World Championships has been awarded to House of Science Tauranga after qualifying at... Read More

Raw and powerful story of abuse

He was fully fledged Black Power, he was violent, 'beat on his missus” and had serious alcohol and drugs issues. And 'no” he couldn't talk to The Weekend... Read More

Letters of love

Jeanne and Hardie Drake's seven decade romance is the kind of love that Hollywood make movies about. The year was 1945 and World War Two was coming to a close.... Read More

Pet Perfect: Your animal antics

Pet Perfect is a monthly feature in The Weekend Sun and we want to see your pets. Send your cute animal snaps to editorials@thesun.co.nz or post them on our Facebook... Read More

Playing the letters game

Tauranga woman Sarah Brown has created a new ABC learning game to assist children to learn the letters and letter sounds in a fun and easy way. Formerly a Year... Read More