Active Voice with Gareth Yates Sport BOP School Sport Team Leader How we can get more young people more active is a big focus for Sport Bay of Plenty. This focus has become all the more important with recent reports showing a... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz Writing this on the balcony of their holiday apartment - which overlooks the top end of Bribie Island in Caloundra - continues the cinderella weather for Sideline... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder The methodology use in adjusting the older sites to the current observing site is published in the 'NZ Meteorological Service Miscellaneous Publication' No 180 in 1984. It is considered that the homogeneous... Read More

Pam Hison Green Prescription Advisor Sport Bay of Plenty With temperatures plummeting it is tempting to position yourself firmly on the couch. We, the Green Prescription team are here to tell you keeping your activity level... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz This edition of Sideline Sid's weekly sports blog, finds Sid and Mrs Sid in the far north of Australia on thier bi-annual winter migration to Queensland, to... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder On July 1, 2016 (Canada Day) Canada Post unveiled five new stamps designed to showcase one of Canadians' most popular topics: the weather. The five stamps, issued to coincide with the 175th anniversary... Read More

Brian Rogers Rogers Rabbits www.sunlive.co.nz When life gets you down, when little problems compound up and the worries of everyday living seem unsurmountable, who do you call? Well for those who don't have rum, there's... Read More

Todd Muller National MP When Simon Bridges became leader of the National Party, he promised to focus more on the environment. As the Climate Change spokesperson, I have been working hard with Simon to do just that. Climate... Read More

Straight from city council A personal view, by Councillor Steve Morris There were two protests directed at council last week - one on the decision not to make The Mall at Pilot Bay a one-way street and the other directed at a... Read More

Clayton Mitchell New Zealand First MP Last week saw the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Legislation move a step closer to being implemented, with the Committee of the Whole House stage passing unopposed. What this very... Read More

Angie Warren-Clark Labour MP Last weekend I took my annual trip over to Field Days. Amongst the 10,000 steps around Mystery Creek it was awesome to see the many and varied products that our little part of the world produces. What... Read More

John Arts Abundant Living www.johnarts.co.nz In the last edition we acknowledged that osteoarthritis is mostly caused by the loss of cartilage secreting cells called chondrocytes. Their job is to maintain cartilage. If chondrocytes... Read More