Talking Politics With Sam Uffindell Tauranga City MP Fieldays 2022 showed us what the Government should expect from regional New Zealand next year - an absolute shellacking. I spent Thursday and Friday on our stand and wandering... Read More

Winston Watusi Music Plus It's getting harder for musicians to produce recorded music. A liner note in a CD I received recently says: 'With a single Spotify stream now returning $0.0007 to the artist, the days of deriving income... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz An unlikely connection, between the late Queen Elizabeth II and the sport of surf lifesaving, was provided at Mount Maunganui during early 1963. The occasion was... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder Climate extremes in New Zealand, since instrumental records became available in the 1850s, show a range from the highest temperature of 42.4 degrees Celsius recorded in Rangiora on February 7, 1973,... Read More

Science talk With Chris Duggan House of Science Chris Duggan is a scientist, educator, mother of two adult daughters, and farmers wife. After many years teaching secondary school Science and Chemistry, she switched her focus... Read More

Angie Warren-Clark Labour MP While the global economic outlook remains uncertain, our primary sector is at the heart of New Zealand's optimism about the future. Through resilience and innovation, primary industry exports hit a record... Read More

PET TALK With Dr Liza Schneider Having a good working knowledge of what signs to look for to determine if your pet's health is at risk is a very important investment and can make a huge difference to the outcome of a critically... Read More

Maddie Hughes FOOD BUZZ Let's get one last asparagus recipe in before the season comes to a close. This one is raw, which is not the usual way to serve asparagus. But it's juicy, crisp and delicious. You'll be converted! Raw... Read More

Nigel Tutt Chief Executive of Priority One The prospect of an interest rate-induced economic downturn in 2023 has become distinctly real during the past week, with the Reserve Bank of New Zealand governor Adrian Orr signalling the... Read More

Todd Talks with Todd Muller National MP I've had an eventful week with Parliament in recess. With my Primary Industries portfolios of Agriculture and Oceans and Fisheries, Fieldays is a key event for me to connect with... Read More

Winston Watusi Music Plus December eh? December has arrived and with it, the countdown to Christmas. It goes like that. October, November - nothing happening, Christmas is months away. December - Christmas is NOW, time to panic... Read More

Green Goals with Josh Cole Green Party Long overdue changes to the Crown Minerals Act are a welcome step in the right direction but the Government needs to go further to end the nonsensical search for fossil fuels. Keep fossil... Read More