Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid History should view the 2024 and 2025 Bay of Plenty senior representative cricket team as the most successful since their first match in 1932. The Bay of Plenty Cricket... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder A sunspot is a relatively dark, sharply defined region on the solar disc - marked by an umbra, dark area, which is 2000 degrees cooler than the effective photospheric temperature. The average... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny Ey up! How you doin' my old sausages? And I am talking traditional Cumberland sausage here, chunky with a variety of herbs and spices and fit for a school lunch. There's 500 years of British... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Last Saturday, Ellerslie racecourse in the City of Sails hosted the wealthiest thoroughbred race meeting ever held in the country. Almost $9 million in stake money... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz The Tauranga National Jazz Festival is a lunar event; dates change each year depending on the moon. Here's how it works: the core jazz festival is on Easter weekend,... Read More

Not Sure? Ask Us with Catherine Fletcher It's CAB Awareness Week! This is a time for putting a spotlight on CAB to celebrate our mahi and highlight to the community the help and services we offer. This year's theme... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny It's a local fixture, a landmark, high above the Daisy Hardwick and Waikareao Estuary - a flagpole reaching skyward from behind the fence of a stately old Pillans Point home. When the All... Read More

Abundant Life with John Arts | abundant.co.nz Curcumin, from turmeric, has benefits for many body tissue types. This means curcumin can help balance faulty chemistry that leads to disease. Today we look at the how curcumin... Read More

Lobbying For Good with Erika Harvey March signals change, a shift in seasons and a chance to embrace new beginnings. It's a reminder that progress is made one step at a time, but it starts with action. Across Tauranga,... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz Many musicians I know are talking about AI. Not just musicians, of course. But recently AI music generators have become widely accessible, in the way text and image... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid This Saturday is a significant milestone in the history of the Bay Oval at Blake Park in Mount Maunganui. It is 20 years to the day since the first sod was turned... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny They'll be burning this heretic's effigy at the top of the driveway next. Or stabbing a voodoo doll with needles to curse me, bring me pain, misfortune and failure. All that can really... Read More