The Firefighters’ Calendar has taken on a new look for 2019, and will feature the ever-popular emergency service members alongside Child Cancer ambassadors. In the past, the calendar has featured firefighters from throughout New Zealand in ‘pecks...... Read More

Break out your best stockings and tunics, gowns and wimples. Strike up the harp, the lute and the hammered dulcimer and take your partners for a Maltese bransle. Yes, a bransle – or a brangle, a brando, a bran or a brantle - depending on who...... Read More

Good Morning SunLive readers and welcome back to another sunny Sunday. It’s going to be another fine day today, with some evening cloud. There will also be some light winds and some sea breezes. Looking into tomorrow and Tuesday, tomorrow...... Read More

Christmas has come early for Lotto players in the Bay of Plenty as three players won Second Division and one lucky player from Waihi winning $500,000 in the live draw. Fourteen lucky Lotto players each won $18,757 with Lotto Second Division in Saturday...... Read More

Kiwi kids can expect new twists on recent toy favourites and “downright silliness” in their Christmas stockings this year, according to Trade Me. Trade Me’s Millie Silvester says popular searches, combined with national and international...... Read More

Two lucky recipients have been awarded for their participation in Whakatane District Council’s Active Whakatane project. A transport and recreation strategy which aims to make it easier and safer for people to use our roads, pathways, tracks...... Read More

Four birthday parties and a wedding anniversary. That’s how I spent my Christmas in 2015 – and all at the same event. My friend, who was celebrating her 21st birthday, was home from Perth for the first time since high school, so it felt...... Read More

A new joint exhibition by Whakatane based artists Lea-Anne Sheather and Mandy Hague named Bindings, introduces audiences to what at first glance looks like a truly fantastical world, filled with curious beasts and shadowy landscapes. Look closer though...... Read More

Good morning SunLive readers and welcome back to another beautiful weekend. It's a pearler across the whole Bay of Plenty today, despite some crazy lightning and thunderstorms witnessed late last night. SunLive photographer Cameron...... Read More

Make Christmas sustainable by doing some second-hand shopping this season.  Handing over a gift whilst saving the planet can be a challenge – especially in our consumerist society. But shopping second hand is one small solution, so why...... Read More