Weather Eye with John Maunder Monthly rainfalls for Tauranga have been recorded at several recording sites during the last 122 years. From January 1898 to December 1904, the observation site was described as the Tauranga Harbour,...

Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch I guess it will all end when they run out of guns or gangsters. It doesn’t pay to be too flippant about such things. But when gang wars start in peaceful suburbs and violence erupts in rural...

Clayton Mitchell New Zealand First MP Reforming our firearm legislation has been a major point of discussion for all New Zealanders. Tragic events last year unveiled inadequacies in firearm licensing and management systems. New...

Winston Watusi Music Plus There's been a lot of folk around town recently, and I mean that both ways. A bunch of tourists are still on the beaches and there have been frequent sightings of banjos, harps, fiddles and other accoutrements...

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz While we all look with awe when world sporting records are beaten and significant international marks overcome, they almost certainly will be broken one day in the...

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

Clayton Mitchell New Zealand First MP Over the weekend, Simon Bridges announced that National would refuse to work with New Zealand First after the next election. I believe this is strategic error for Bridges and I agree with the...

Winston Watusi Music Plus Love is in the air: only a short time now and we can embrace the romantic charm of St Valentine's Day. Regular readers might be surprised at a jaded sceptic such as myself waxing enthusiastically about...

Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch There are a lot of problems to solve this week in our beautiful  but tortured land. The Bay of Plenty has become just that lately – plenty of crime, plenty of rough sleepers and beggars...

Simon Bridges National Party Leader simonbridges.co.nz One of the great things about living on the East Coast is our proximity to the ocean and all the benefits that come with it. Although it has been a while since I’ve...

Angie Warren-Clark Labour MP It might not be something we think about often, but infrastructure keeps our country going. We rely on our roads and rail network to get to work, take our family on holiday and stock our supermarkets....

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz The first recorded cricket match was played in Nelson in March 1884 between the surveyors of the New Zealand Land Company and a Nelson side. In those long ago times,...

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. It's very common for areas such as Tauranga...

Winston Watusi Music Plus  So that was January was it? A twelfth of the year gone already? Now we're on to February but, good news, public holidays just keep rolling in. We all took the beginning of this week off to celebrate...

Jan Tinetti Labour MP I have always enjoyed spending time in Tauranga’s CBD and it was great to see so many people enjoying it as well over the Christmas break. The city is changing, it is transforming. Recently one of New...

Clayton Mitchell New Zealand First MP We now live in a world rife with fake news and an unreliable, biased media. During this confusing time in history, it is incredibly important that our children are receiving a balanced and...

Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch It’s great news that finally something is going to be done about State Highway 2 north  of Tauranga. I say this with great sincerity and excitement for the simple reason; I don’t...

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz While thoroughbred horse racing flies under the radar of the mainstream media for 51 weeks of the year, the Karaka Millions and the National Yearling Sales bring...

Weather Eye with John Maunder The graph below shows the range of Tauranga's December rainfalls, from an extreme high of 447 mm in 1962 to a low of only 4 mm in 1930. The second wettest December was 2018, when 278 mm was recorded The...