Straight from city council A personal view, by Councillor Steve Morris There's a sense of powerlessness and frustration that builds as we all leave home ten minutes earlier and arrive back ten minutes later than this time last... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder Rainfalls for the month of March have been recorded in Tauranga since 1898 - except for 1904, 1908 and 1909. This graph below shows the range of rainfalls from a high of 504 mm in 1979, to a low of... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz Sport is like life, in that it never goes in a straight line with the highs of expectation and achievement balanced with the thump of reality when things don't... Read More

Brian Rogers Rogers Rabbits www.sunlive.co.nz I really hope you can read fast. Because the End of the World is coming and I'd hate you to be half way through a Rabbits column when suddenly, whammo. The world ends, in a chaotic... Read More

Todd Talks By Todd Muller I have been reflecting deeply on the events of the past two weeks, as I'm sure we all have, and of the gravity of what has happened. There can be no doubt that our country has lost some of our innocence,... Read More

Straight from city council A personal view, by Councillor Steve Morris With our fellow Kiwis laid to rest and the national day of remembrance behind us, it's time to reflect on the road ahead for New Zealand. Not since the Second... Read More

Clayton Mitchell New Zealand First MP The public has grown weary of the strategies which have been put forward in recent years to deal with Tauranga's rapidly growing traffic and urban development issues, but which have come to... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz By all accounts, last week's Surf Lifesaving New Zealand National Championships on the Mount Main Beach were a outstanding success, with the "Mounties" winning the... Read More

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

Brian Rogers Rogers Rabbits www.sunlive.co.nz A terrible, terrible thing has befallen our country. Innocent lives have been lost. We stand with the people of Christchurch and those whose lives have been shattered, in denouncing... Read More

Straight from city council A personal view, by Councillor Steve Morris At the time of writing, we've had 50 fellow Kiwis stolen from us in a cowardly terrorist attack. They'll forever be our mums and dads, brothers and sisters,... Read More

Simon Bridges National Party Leader simonbridges.co.nz Last weekend I had planned to attend the Multicultural Festival at Tauranga Historic Village, to celebrate our community's diversity. Like many events around the country,... Read More