Weather Eye with John Maunder Temperatures have been recorded in the Tauranga area at several sites in the last 100 years, including the current Tauranga Airport site from June 1990. The graph shows details of the average daily...

Brian Rogers Rogers Rabbits www.sunlive.co.nz Rogers has been through major surgery and is now in Rest and Recovery Mode for a few months. Resurfacing this week for a gander at the local and national news scene and I have...

Winston Watusi Music Plus October this year is a tricky time for promoters and bands: the Rugby World Cup messes everything up. It's not as though every single person in the country obsessively watches rugby. But a lot do. And...

Clayton Mitchell New Zealand First MP Most New Zealanders would be surprised to hear that English is not actually an official language of New Zealand. The languages that currently hold this title are Te Reo Maori and New Zealand...

Todd Talks By Todd Muller There have been multiple outbreaks of measles across the country and it has been confirmed New Zealand has now exported two cases to the United States. Already there have been 59 confirmed cases of measles...

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz Tauranga Boxing Club head coach Chris Walker further enhanced his credentials as one of the best amateur boxing coaches in the country, after the 2019 Boxing New...

Weather Eye with John Maunder Rainfalls for the month of September have been recorded in Tauranga since 1898, except for 1904, 1907, 1908, and 1909. The graph below shows the range of rainfalls from an extreme high of 274 mm in...

Winston Watusi Music Plus It’s October already, a month for female singer-songwriters to wend their way  to Tauranga. There has been a huge rise of female singer-songwriters in recent years, the most obvious in terms...

Janne GuitarGirl Spotlight On… A super celebration of all things to do with guitars. Electric or acoustic, whether you play, listen,jam or just admire. Join us on October 10 at the Black Sheep Bar & Grill, just off the main...

Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch  Kiwis and pies go hand in hand. In fact you could put an actual kiwi in a pie and get away with it because pies are more Kiwi  than kiwis. There is nothing more quintessentially...

Jan Tinetti Labour MP Did you know the coalition Government just celebrated two years since the election? That’s two years of meaningful progress to build a New Zealand where people who have been struggling for too long can...

Simon Bridges National Party Leader simonbridges.co.nz Most people have a story about loopy regulations. Something that makes absolutely no sense, but a bureaucrat in Wellington thought it sounded great. If you’re lucky...

Todd Talks By Todd Muller Last Monday night I attended the Save our Underpass Public Meeting to listen and share in the outrage within our community at NZTA’s plan to cancel the pedestrian and cycle underpass as part of the...

Angie Warren-Clark Labour MP So many of us struggle with mental health or addiction issues – no matter who we are and where we come from – and when help is not available, that distress can turn into crisis. If you are...

Clayton Mitchell New Zealand First MP No area of government affects our day-to-day lives more than at the local level. Local authorities are responsible for making decisions which ensure quality of life for all of its citizens. ...

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz Sideline Sid is occasionally referred to by family and friends as a master of useless information. Being a keen amateur historian and a having enquiring mind, combine,...

Weather Eye with John Maunder Among the many climate science meetings I have attended, the most significant, at least in term of climate change is concerned, was my involvement in the UN sponsored International Conference held in...

Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch In 1995 we were all witnessing Nelson Mandela holding the Rugby World Cup aloft. In 2007 we were “robbed” by the ref and France kicked us where it hurt, yet again, in another failed...

Winston Watusi Music Plus So much music, so little time... There really is so much on that I'm looking for a way to present something other than what amounts to a seven hundred word listicle. But no politics this week. Two...