Entertainment
12:48pm Fri 24 Apr, 2020
Grandpa's House - a new song for ANZAC Day from Nigel Masters and the Kokomo team. Commemorating ANZAC Day 2020, Tauranga, New Zealand - Written and Performed... Read More
11:37am Fri 24 Apr, 2020
Three appointments were made to the board of the Tauranga Art Gallery Trust this week. Emma Gardiner, Rosemary Protheroe and Steven Farrant are the new trustees... Read More
04:35pm Tue 21 Apr, 2020
The long night of lockdown is over and The Weekend Sun is coming back over the horizon. Expect it in your letterbox on May 1. Tauranga and the Western Bay's... Read More
03:17pm Thu 16 Apr, 2020
Tauranga and Western Bay of Plenty readers can still get their fill of local community news from The Weekend Sun even though we are not back in your letterboxes... Read More
02:29pm Thu 16 Apr, 2020
Tauranga Arts Festival has added 'Home-made Poetry' to its web-based 'arts at home' line-up with locals or past guests of the festival being filmed reading work... Read More
08:13am Fri 10 Apr, 2020
He grew up here and is a product of the Tauranga music scene. Joel Shadbolt and L.A.B is also the first band to hit the top of the Kiwi charts since Lorde's... Read More
06:06am Fri 10 Apr, 2020
Local writer Nina Payne is one of 25 migrants who have contributed to the book, Mixed: Creative Writing by Newcomers to Our Shores. An author with two previously... Read More
11:31am Wed 08 Apr, 2020
Mystery, crime and thrillers are leading the way when it comes to reading habits over the past few weeks. Online borrowers are particularly enjoying contemporary... Read More
04:52pm Mon 06 Apr, 2020
An isolation-themed Hotel California cover is bringing laughter to the people of Papamoa amid the COVID-19 lockdown. 'The Isolation Song' is a result of collaborative... Read More
10:43am Fri 03 Apr, 2020
Proudly and defiantly, unhealthy fast food - everything fat, nothing green, nothing vegetarian, nothing vegan. That was the business model that won the heart, and... Read More
07:00am Fri 03 Apr, 2020
So here we are: the first column without a newspaper to accompany it. After over fifteen years of writing a weekly column it seems strange. But, in the hope that... Read More
04:38pm Thu 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, for the lockdown. The... Read More