Matt CowleyTauranga City Councillor Everyone is a winner with the New Zealand Transport Agency taking over the ownership of Route K from Tauranga City Council in July. You get cheaper tolls, NZTA can manage a nationally important route to New Zealand's... Read More

Catherine StewartTauranga City Councillor I read, with interest, a recent council vacancy for a SmartGrowth wellbeings implementation officer. The advert said that since the review in 2013, SmartGrowth now took a much broader approach in recognising... Read More

Beautiful Youby Suzanne Edmonds Each week, beauty enthusiast Suzanne Edmonds explores the best ways to take care of ourselves so that we love the skin we're in. We rely on them every day to carry our bodies around. We expect them to never fail... Read More

Sideline SidSports correspondant & historian www.sunlive.co.nz It's the hurry and scurry of the modern world - history is what shapes where we are today. Sideline Sid has a loose connection with two grand sporting trophies that seemed destined... Read More

Tom MorrisonCommunity Coaching AdvisorSport Bay of Plenty Attention all winter codes, it's time to start thinking about your nominations for Sport Maker. The Thank a Sport Maker campaign is part of a partnership with the Lotto Volunteer Foundation... Read More

Tom MorrisonCommunity Coaching AdvisorSport Bay of Plenty Attention all winter codes, it's time to start thinking about your nominations for Sport Maker. The Thank a Sport Maker campaign is part of a partnership with the Lotto Volunteer Foundation... Read More

Weather Eyewith 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. The graph shows details of the average daily maximum temperatures,... Read More

Beautiful Youby Suzanne Edmonds Each week, beauty enthusiast Suzanne Edmonds explores the best ways to take care of ourselves so that we love the skin we're in. You may have heard of paraffin wax dips for the feet during a pedicure. The experience... Read More

John ArtsAbundant Health www.johnarts.co.nz The majority of people who contact me have some form of health issue. In some cases we can help support healing processes and see people make a full recovery. For most it's more a matter of making improvements... Read More

Andrew von DadelszenRegional Watchdog One has to ask…What is the point of submitting to regional council annual plans? In January I wrote a 13-page submission to the regional council's Land Transport Plan 2015 to 2045. I wanted to be heard... Read More

Brian RogersRogers Rabbits www.sunlive.co.nz It seems to be a good time to be a New Zealander. The economy is good. Easter on the roads was safer than it's been for ages. Our cricketers are among the best two teams in the world. We're better sports... Read More

Simon BridgesNational MP simonbridges.co.nz I hope you all managed to have some time off and relax during the Easter break. For me, it was great to spend a few days at home with my family and recharge the batteries. In my last column I wrote about... Read More