Straight from city council A personal view, by Councillor Steve Morris Before lockdown, New Zealand's daily percentage increase of COVID-19 cases was higher than both Italy and Spain. Just five weeks later, we've all but eliminated... Read More

Clayton Mitchell New Zealand First MP As alert level 4 lapsed last Monday, many businesses resume their operations after having to shut down during the lockdown. The past five weeks would not have been easy for them, but thanks... Read More

Winston Watusi Music Plus And we're off again! You can't keep a good paper down and much sooner than I expected, The Weekend Sun is back in print. Like very many of you I am... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz Les Jarvis, who became a familiar sight in Greerton Village on his way to walk his dog on the Tauranga racecourse, left behind a direct link to champion racehorse... Read More

Angie Warren-Clark Labour MP This column is about your unity, your sacrifice, and your success so far. We're showing that a team of five million, working together, really can take a huge step towards the goal of eliminating COVID-19... 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

Winston Watusi Music Plus I don't remember how this column came to be called 'Music Plus”. It is not what you'd call an inspired name, and I suspect that a lack of imagination... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz One of the few silver linings to come out of the coronavirus lockdown has been the rediscovery of exercise as a way to cope with trials and tribulations that the... Read More

Winston Watusi Music Plus We continue this currently weekly glance at things appearing on the radar at the Watusi Country Club. Things that have sparked little fires of joy in young... Read More

Nick Earl Lyon O'Neale Arnold director The lockdown period is a good time to take stock and get onto 'life admin' tasks that often take a backseat in busy lives. Organising a Will is one of these tasks that can easily fall... Read More

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

Winston Watusi Music Plus We continue this currently weekly glance at things appearing on the radar at the Watusi Country Club. Those things that bring on bouts of beamishness in young Winston. This week it's all Kiwi stuff... Read More