Blogs
10:33am Thu 19 Jun, 2025
Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz Tauranga continues to surprise me with the amount and variety of music on offer. I've said this before and though I hate repeating myself, I know I'm doing exactly... Read More
11:41am Wed 18 Jun, 2025
Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid While Covid changed the world, it also brought a myriad of small changes throughout society. Bay of Plenty senior club rugby adapted, then took another approach in... Read More
07:51am Wed 18 Jun, 2025
Weather Eye with John Maunder Climate extremes in New Zealand, since instrumental records became available in the 1850s, show a range from the highest temperature of 42.4 degrees Celsius recorded in Rangiora on February... Read More
09:00am Fri 13 Jun, 2025
Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny What has Donald J Trump got in common with 'Stew” the wether sheep whose pronoun is ”it"? Well, lore has it both Trump and Stew are draft dodgers. Fancy that! Trump dodged the... Read More
09:00am Fri 13 Jun, 2025
Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz It's back - time for Loserpalooza 2025. Totara St will come alive from midday for 12 hours on Saturday, June 21, with the sounds of 24 bands each playing for 30 minutes... Read More
12:56pm Wed 11 Jun, 2025
Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid For three decades, the chant 'This is the Warriors Year” has echoed out of Mt Smart Stadium in Auckland's industrial heartland in Penrose. Just maybe, the big... Read More
06:00am Fri 06 Jun, 2025
Skin Secrets with Sue Dewes from Tranquillo Beauty In today's world of holistic wellness, self-care is no longer a luxury - it's a necessity. At the forefront of this trend is our innovative wellness facial, a treatment... Read More
06:00am Fri 06 Jun, 2025
Lobbying For Good with Erika Harvey YouthFest 2025 was our biggest youth-led event yet! Every year during Youth Week, Youth Voices Action hosts YouthFest to celebrate the creativity, talent, courage, and leadership of... Read More
06:00am Fri 06 Jun, 2025
Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny Some people's habits annoy. Like a roasted sesame seed that gets under a dental plate and rumbles around. So, I hear. Those trivial, petty, but exasperating habits of others that live rent... Read More
02:15pm Thu 05 Jun, 2025
Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz Today, let's talk music competitions... Firstly, the AMA, the Aotearoa Music Awards 2025. I was outraged. Outraged I tell you. Not at the interruptions. No. Musicians... Read More
05:00pm Wed 04 Jun, 2025
Weather Eye with John Maunder Roger Pieki Jn in a recent study says that there has been no tropical cyclone of hurricane strength anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere so far in 2025. If we get to June 5 - which looks... Read More
11:52am Wed 04 Jun, 2025
Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Wind back the clock to the 1960s; jumps races took centre stage in winter thoroughbred racing and jumps jockeys were the kings of the sport. There was a series of big... Read More