Weather Eye with John Maunder Some of the answers to the complexities of the climate system are given in my recently published book Fifteen Shades of Climate: The fall of the weather dice and the butterfly effect. The... Read More

Green Goals with Josh Cole The recent legislation introduced by the Government allowing landlords to terminate tenancies without cause is a major setback for the 1.4 million renters in Aotearoa. This decision heavily... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz Continuing to celebrate New Zealand Music Month, it's time to fill what has become a gaping hole in the column's recent content - no 'Shadow & Light'. Which means I'll... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny Grunts, groans, snorts, barks, clicks, whistles and thwaps. Onomatopoeia - words that phonetically represent the sound they describe - oink, meow, roar. I love the word 'thwap' - the... Read More

Talking Politics with Sam Uffindell, Tauranga MP This week Transport Minister Simeon Brown announced the launch of the coalition Government's Roads of Regional Significance programme. Building world-class infrastructure... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid This week's edition is being written from the other side of the ditch with Sideline Sid and his long suffering wife taking a break in sunny Queensland. The two-fold... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder The 'Maunder Minimum' is the name given to the period from 1645 to 1715 when the number of sunspots - 'storms' on the sun - became almost zero. The period is named after the solar... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz We're about one-third of the way through New Zealand Music Month - and thank you for asking, yes, there is a plan. It's pretty simple: write about the many shows happening,... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny Listen up all you heartless, thoughtless, self-centred guys - you have about 24 hours to bring your relationship back from the brink. You don't really want to turn a celebration of motherhood... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Regular delving into local sporting history has produced another true gem that ranks up with Rotorua's J Hinton's five successive wickets and Trent Boult's two hat-tricks... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder Monthly rainfalls for Tauranga have been recorded at several recording sites during the last 126 years. From January 1898 to December 1904, the observation site was described as the Tauranga... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny Wouldn't life be easier if we didn't have to deal with people? The attention seekers, the moaners and the self-entitled, the selfish, the fakes, the bullies, the complainers, the yellers... Read More