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New cricket season was just around the corner

Sideline SidSports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz The sight of Black Caps' bowlers Ish Sodhi, Tim Southee, Trent Boult, Doug Bracewell, Mark Craig along with keeper BJ Watling in the grass nets the Bay Oval last week, suggested that... Read More

Tauranga June Average Afternoon Temperatures 1913-2016

Weather Eyewith John Maunder Temperatures have been recorded in the Tauranga area at several sites during the last 100 years, including at the current Tauranga Airport site from June 1990. The graph shows details of the average daily maximum temperatures,... Read More

My final column before the elections

Matt CowleyTauranga City Councillor Thanks to all those who people who have contributed to many conversations during the last three years by contacting me either in person, or by phone, email or social media. Some of my highlights during my first... Read More

Road code test for nutrition

Are you ready?with Leigh Elder Imagine the chaos on the roads if there was no Road Code to follow. Well, there certainly is no nutritional Road Code to follow and there really is chaos. We have spent the last decade or so working out a method,... Read More

The slowest common denominator

Brian RogersRogers Rabbits www.sunlive.co.nz And a free badge for you sanctimonious highway menaces! The guvmint has announced even more funding for the region's roads this week, on top of large dollops of dosh already committed to the new northern... Read More

Deciding for themselves?

Clayton MitchellNew Zealand First MP This last week has seen Britain make a bold democratic decision. Brexit - the public referendum to leave the E.U. - is the latest in a long history of decisions with far-reaching consequences from a country... Read More

Check out the legs on that one!

Culinary Conversationswith Peter BlakewayFood writer, caterer and private chef If it's winter then it must be time for the Seriously Good Food Show at ASB Arena - and this weekend that's exactly where I'll be as master of ceremonies for the Audi... Read More

Meeting Dyfrig

Todd TalksBy Todd Muller At a conference in 1992 I met Dyfrig Ellis, a passionate Welshman and teacher, who has become a dear friend over the years. He's a school teacher in an all Welsh-speaking school. Dyfrig is a passionate advocate for the... Read More

Last Annual Plan for this council

Catherine StewartTauranga City Councillor Taurang City Council has adopted the 2016/2017 Annual Plan setting average rates increase at 2.2 per cent for next year. This council has experienced the lowest interest rates on borrowings that I can ever... Read More

Are CCOs the right answer for Tauranga City Council?

Andrew von DadelszenFormer Regional Councillor Tauranga City councillors seem to think hiding capital asset decisions and ownership - for example, the proposed rebuild of the city centre - in Council Controlled Organisations is the way to fund... Read More

Tauranga racing in winter

Sideline SidSports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz Last Saturday's race meeting at the Gate Pa course in Tauranga was a testament to the course manager who presented a track that completed a full card of racing, on a day which only... Read More

Global Average Temperatures of the Troposphere: January 1969 - May 2016

Weather Eyewith John Maunder The latest global average temperatures of the troposphere - those observed from US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellites - are computed by the University of Alabama at Huntsville in the United States. ... Read More