Jan Tinetti Labour MP It all started last year when I visited the Solomon Islands and went to a school with a library but no books. The children were so eager to learn and they read anything they could get their hands on, even...... Read More

Straight from city council A personal view, by Councillor Steve Morris It’s easy to forget that Tauranga’s Bay Hopper is run by BOP Regional Council and not TCC. Last month, Parliament enacted legislation that allows...... Read More

Clayton Mitchell New Zealand First MP When challenges present themselves, the best way to approach them is by working together. Tauranga is currently facing a whole raft of challenges with its infrastructure as it continues to...... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz The Black Caps win over England in the historic first cricket test at the Bay Oval was the icing on the cake of an amazing five days of cricket at the Blake Park...... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder Global temperatures are compiled for various areas including global (land-ocean), global (meteorological stations), three latitude bands, and hemispheric, by the Goddard Institute for Space Studies...... Read More

Winston Watusi Music Plus November's annual musical frenzy usually peaks around the end of the month. The impending arrival of Christmas is to blame of course as work functions proliferate and the opportunity arises to reclaim...... Read More

There is nothing more amusing than watching a diehard cricket fan explain the basics of a test match to a complete novice. How can anyone sit there for five days watching a person dressed all in white, walk slowly down a paddock, turn around, run back...... Read More

Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch  My confidence has been eroded this week. It all started on Sunday when Civil Defence sent out its mobile emergency alert to everyone in the country – except me. What’s that all...... Read More

Angie Warren-Clark Labour MP Last election Labour echoed community calls to prevent crime, to minimise the harm associated with it and to keep our communities safe. That’s why we campaigned on increasing the number of police...... Read More

Straight from city council A personal view, by Councillor Steve Morris The Taxpayers Union have released their 2019 report ranking councils by rates, debt, and staff costs. How do Tauranga City Council’s results compare? Tauranga’s...... Read More

Inside City Council A personal view, by Councillor Andrew Hollis And colour me another week down. This week or so has been filled with a whirlwind of high level seminars all with the view of getting us new councillors up to speed. I...... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz As Sideline Sid counts the hours down to the historic first cricket test at the Bay Oval on Thursday, he remembers back to going to his first test match nearly a...... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder The Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) is a standardized index based on the observed sea level pressure differences between Tahiti and Darwin, Australia. The SOI is a leading measure of the large-scale...... Read More

Winston Watusi Music Plus Since we live in such a tech-savvy interconnected world, you'd think it would be getting simpler, not harder, to find stuff. We're certainly told that it's easier, with information at our fingertips,...... Read More

Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch Winston is in the limelight again but I’m not 100 per cent sure what the court case is all about. As far as I can tell it stems from an overpayment of his super which he promptly paid back...... Read More

Straight from city council A personal view, by Councillor Steve Morris I had a good feeling when paying our rates invoice for the first time. A sense of pride that we were financially contributing to the running of our community....... Read More

Simon Bridges National Party Leader simonbridges.co.nz In National’s last term of government we transferred Tauranga’s state housing stock to Accessible Properties, the old IHC. This was about doing a better job for...... Read More

Tamati Coffey Labour MP From congratulating Te Arawa Lakes Trust for acquiring Maketu Pies and keeping local jobs in local hands, to local kapa haka success, I’m excited to be the MP for the Waiariki. I mihi to all kura who...... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz A handful of spectators witnessed four games of International T20 cricket took place at Blake Park last Friday and Saturday.. The New Zealand Blind Cricket team,...... Read More