Angie Warren-Clark Labour MP Last week Minister Andrew Little and I attended a launch event at Tauranga Hospital to celebrate Bay of Plenty District Health Board joining the National Bowel Screening Programme. Bowel cancer is... Read More

Todd Talks with Todd Muller National MP When the Prime Minister relieves the Police Minister from her duties and gives the job to a more senior Minister, it's a clear admission that the job was not being done properly.... Read More

Winston Watusi Music Plus Tauranga's been in the news a bit recently; you've got to be proud. As only the fifth-largest city in the country we tend to get a little passed over, so any time we come to national prominence - hats... Read More

Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch Usually, at this time of the electoral cycle, locally-elected councillors are being super nice to everyone. Everyone vying for the few positions available musters up their most popular ideas and... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz When newly contracted White Fern Nensi Patel plays her first game in the New Zealand uniform, it will signal the handing of the baton from the first Bay of Plenty... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder Each month Professor Ole Humlum of the The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS), in Norway publishes on his very comprehensive web site a large number of updated charts and related analyses of data... Read More

Better Understanding Dementia with Ruth Thomas EnlivenPlus Demented, mad, away with the fairies... I've heard it all in my 30 years supporting people with dementia. We've come a long way in that time, but not far enough. My... Read More

Tamati Coffey Labour List MP We've just announced more support to ease the pressure on households here in the Waiariki, with further action to make sure Kiwis are paying a fair price at the supermarket checkout. I know people are... Read More

Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch Please don't tell anyone but there is half a sheet of plasterboard propped up against the wall in the garage. I'm no plasterboard snob, this isn't GIB, it's a French substitute called ProRoc. In... Read More

Winston Watusi Music Plus Okay. Through the downpour and drizzle, I think I see a jazz festival approaching... It's not long now till Matariki and, being the first time we've celebrated it as a holiday and - more specifically -... Read More

Green Goals with Josh Cole Green Party Over the last four years, the Greens in Government have laid the foundations for climate action in every part of Aotearoa. The Emissions Reduction Plan(ERP) is a landmark all-of-Government... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz "When the young ones amongst the crowd at Te Rapa on the 22 February 1972 have grey beards and the old ones are gone, the day that Lester Piggott and Sailing Home... Read More