4:30pm Friday 03 Apr, 2020
The Weekend Sun may not be in your letterbox this week but that doesn’t mean it’s not there. All the usual content can now be found at www.theweekendsun.co.nz... Read More
Local News
10:43am Friday 03 Apr, 2020
Proudly and defiantly, unhealthy fast food – everything fat, nothing green, nothing vegetarian, nothing vegan. That was the business model that... Read More
8:35am Friday 03 Apr, 2020
Alan Pine is a stayer. He’s been with St John for 62 years and he is the latest person to be recognised in The Weekend Sun’s series on volunteers. He... Read More
8:06am Friday 03 Apr, 2020
The Tauranga City Council is planning to remove a tidy, three-bedroom house in Pyes Pa to provide a second access to the park and playground behind it. The... Read More
6:57am Friday 03 Apr, 2020
Tauranga woman Kelly Rice provides a perspective on being far from home during an international crisis. OPINION: We left the mighty shores of... Read More
5:36pm Thursday 02 Apr, 2020
For Karen and Michael Kessell laughter goes a long way. The Aongatete couple have taken it upon themselves to lighten up the neighbourhood with their... Read More
4:38pm Thursday 02 Apr, 2020
Tauranga Arts Festival is cancelling the Escape! Festival at Queen’s Birthday weekend but will deliver ‘arts at home’, a web-based project,... Read More
10:59am Friday 27 Mar, 2020
The Weekend Sun will not be printed for the next four weeks. Management advises that an extensive, free news service will continue to... Read More
10:58am Friday 27 Mar, 2020
New Zealand is in lockdown but Bay of Plenty people can still connect through Sun Media’s news website: www.sunlive.co.nz and can now find... Read More
10:57am Friday 27 Mar, 2020
People are being urged to build support networks in their community to ensure the needs of vulnerable people are being met. Age Concern... Read More
10:55am Friday 27 Mar, 2020
It’s time to start reading our way out of a crisis. Books a Plenty shut its doors on Wednesday but already had a number of loyal... Read More
10:53am Friday 27 Mar, 2020
It’s taken a global and viral ‘nasty’ to silence the man who won’t be silenced. Brian Cotter, the 90-year-old tonsils on the... Read More
10:50am Friday 27 Mar, 2020
ANZAC Day across New Zealand will be different this year due the widespread of cancellations of ANZAC Day remembrance services. The... Read More
12:40pm Friday 20 Mar, 2020
When the skies over Bay of Plenty are blue and people are happy, the tourist industry is cock-a hoop. All is well. “But when... Read More
12:39pm Friday 20 Mar, 2020
There’s a big 2/6d glistening in the pile, a two shillings and sixpence, a half crown. That was enough to buy a pack of 20 Matinee... Read More