Todd Talks with Todd Muller National MP My family has been touched by the many messages of good wishes we received prior to Michelle's back surgery last week. The operation was successful but she cannot do very much... Read More

Jan Tinetti Labour MP We're past halfway in the year now, and temperatures here in Tauranga have certainly dropped. At this time of the year people always mention to me how grateful they are for the government's Winter Energy... Read More

Commision News & Views with Commission Chair Anne Tolley After a month of intensive community engagement, more than 2000 face-to-face conversations, 34 community meetings, close to 1800 submissions and around 50 hours of oral... Read More

Winston Watusi Music Plus I've been thinking this week about community; a couple of events on July 24 show again that it's happening and growing all around us. First of all though, I must mention an upcoming Bob Dylan concert,... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz Little did Sideline Sid know that when he called a 16-year-old David Nyika into the ring at the 2011 Boxing New Zealand National Championships, that a decade later,... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder Monthly rainfalls for Tauranga have been recorded at several recording sites during the last 122 years. From January 1898 to December 1904, the observation site was described as the Tauranga Harbour,... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz At the dawn of the new millennium, even the most passionate New Zealand cricket fans wouldn't have dared to suggest, that the Black Caps would be at the top... Read More

Simon Bridges National Party MP simonbridges.co.nz You may have seen an announcement by Labour a few weeks back about building a cycleway across the Auckland Harbour for $785 million, ready for use in the late 2020s. But the... Read More

Angie Warren-Clark Labour MP I have been on the Environment Select Committee since I came into parliament in 2017, and am really passionate about doing the best for our environment. So I'm delighted with the two massively impactful... Read More

Winston Watusi Music Plus It seems I've been on a bit of a rant recently; let's return to regular stuff. Largely. This week that includes: Reb Fountain in Katikati; a band with a name I can't pronounce and a band with a name I... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder Building the cathedrals of Europe... the climate factor Some of the answers to the complexities of the climate system are given in my recently published book Fifteen shades of climate... the fall of... Read More

Nigel Tutt Chief Executive of Priority One Last week we launched a Future of Work campaign at Priority One. We are doing this to better educate students and parents on what types of jobs will be created in the future, and the... Read More