Jan Tinetti Labour MP We celebrated two very important milestones recently. They are initiatives introduced by the current Government that are a making a huge, positive difference in the lives of our young people each and every... Read More

Todd Talks with Todd Muller National MP A key aspect of representing the Bay of Plenty electorate is listening to the views and concerns of constituents. Regular meetings with the community show me what's important... Read More

Winston Watusi Music Plus This week: gigs and new music. The gigs are easy to describe, the music? Hmm... Okay. Two gigs. One word: folky. This Sunday, August 28, The Harmonic Resonators are fundraising at Baycourt's Addison... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz Amateur boxing tournaments have certainly changed since I first become involved in the late 1980s. I was ringside at his first grassroots boxing event in more than... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder 'Hot Weather.—Many a man has mopped his brow during the summer months of 1884, declaring it was the hottest weather the world ever knew, which, of course, would not be true, for the extreme heat... Read More

Angie Warren-Clark Labour MP Kids learn better with a full stomach. Our Government's lunches in school programme has already served around 63 million health lunches, and they now reach 220,000 students across the country. This... Read More

John Arts Abundant Living www.johnarts.co.nz When I formulate any supplement, I use research and best evidence to build a successful formula. An example of this is the 'Aging Clin Exp Res, 2021' peer-reviewed study into the... Read More

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE with Dr Franz Strydom & the Skinspots team Doctors spend a long time at university, and we all expect that this training is sufficient to do a proper job. Medical students receive between two hours on two... Read More

Winston Watusi Music Plus Sometime musing is in order: this week's arises from last weekend, which was musically unusual. For starters, music was a tad light on the ground here as no fewer than three Auckland band shows were... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz 'Touch gloves” will be the final call of instruction from the referee to the boxers entering combat at the Tauranga Boxing Club tournament this Saturday. The... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder Rainfalls for the month of July have been recorded in Tauranga since 1898, except for 1904, 1907, 1908, and 1909. The graph for the period 1898-2022 shows the range of rainfalls from an extreme high... Read More

Winston Watusi Music Plus It's deja vu all over again this week - more upcoming local gigs... Once again I'm going to look two weekends ahead, to give everyone the chance to assemble their drakes and hens in linear fashion.... Read More