Angie Warren-Clark Labour MP It's been a big couple of weeks in the Bay of Plenty, with Delta's unwelcome and uninvited arrival. Our communities have responded by checking the locations of interest and going out to get tested... Read More

Nigel Tutt Chief Executive of Priority One At Priority One we often get asked about Tauranga CBD and its prospects for the future. Generally these discussions don't start off on a positive note - it's no secret that the CBD has... Read More

Todd Talks with Todd Muller National MP Having been free of Covid-19 for such a long time in Tauranga, it's disappointing to see community cases spread throughout our city. I hope that those who have tested positive... Read More

Winston Watusi Music Plus I thought I'd narrowed last week down to gigs that would definitely happen. Yeah right. The Legends Live show (December 4) is off - the latest in a long line. But finally I get the feeling things might... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz Sideline Sid doesn't often get on his soapbox to voice his opinions out loud - however a SunLive piece last week got him hot under the collar. The narrative... 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 astronomer... Read More

Commision News & Views with Commission Chair Anne Tolley For people in the Bay of Plenty, the Delta variant of Covid-19 has been 'around the corner' for some time. We've known it is coming. With cases now confirmed in Taupō... Read More

Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch Someone wrote in the other day querying if this column was written by myself or by ghost writers. Surely if I was a figment of others' imaginations then I would know. It would be completely hypocritical... Read More

Simon Bridges National Party MP simonbridges.co.nz Ordinarily, council elections would be due next year. Everywhere else in New Zealand will have them, but here in Tauranga Labour got rid of our council and inserted unelected... Read More

Winston Watusi Music Plus Another day, another level change, another cancellation. Don't you just love 2021? I must confess that, like pretty much everyone else, I didn't really heed the experts last year when told that this wasn't... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz One of the big oak trees of Western Bay and Bay of Plenty rugby has fallen with the recent passing of Brian McCord. Brian lived a full life and was in his mid-eighties... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder The chart below shows that since 1979, when reliable satellite observations became available, there has been an overall warming trend in the average tropospheric temperatures, apart from, at times,... Read More