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

Chief Executive of Priority One with Nigel Tutt The Government's announcement to make changes to New Zealand's migrant investor visas is a welcome one. This scheme provides wealthy migrants with a New Zealand visa... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz 'The past is never dead. It's not even past.” So said William Faulkner, and though he was more exercised by ghosts of the gothic South, it's a quote that... Read More

A message from Mayor Mahé with Mahé Drysdale Tauranga City Council is bringing together its draft Annual Plan 2025-2026, which will set the city's budget for the next financial year. This Annual Plan... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny This could easily have turned to custard. And a conviction. I was half expecting the constabulary's sleaze patrol to come knocking, demanding I accompany them to the station to answer some... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz I know this column has different audiences, from musicians and music fundis, to general listeners and the bored just looking for something to read. All of you send... Read More

Abundant Life with John Arts | abundant.co.nz I recently spoke to a long-term client during a regular health review. While we've been able to help several problems, she was still battling long-term digestive issues that... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Casual observers of local sports in New Zealand often miss out on significant news due to the shutdown of local sports coverage in many daily newspapers, which Covid-19... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny It was one of those deliciously adorable moments. A wee squirt held aloft by Dad, flapping and shrieking as she eyeballed the cat atop a pole on the Tauranga Waterfront. Not just any cat... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz Here we are in February and I haven't mentioned this year's Port of Tauranga 62nd Jazz Festival once yet. Let's rectify that ... But first, allow me to use the column... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Last week's Sideline Sid contribution ended when a North Queensland tropical storm disrupted the cruise he and his long-suffering wife were on. At the top of our... Read More