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

Proudly and defiantly, unhealthy fast food – everything fat, nothing green, nothing vegetarian, nothing vegan. That was the business model that... Read More

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

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

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... Read More

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

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

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

  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

  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

  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

  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

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

  ANZAC Day across New Zealand will be different this year due the widespread of cancellations of ANZAC Day remembrance services.   The... Read More

  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