Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz A handful of spectators at Pemberton Park watched a Black Cap batsman make his debut in Baywide premier club cricket last Saturday. Test opener Jeet Raval is another... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder The following data sets and comments are from the climate4you.com website developed by Professor Ole Humlum who is a Danish Professor Emeritus of Physical Geography at the University of Oslo, and Adjunct... Read More

Commision News & Views with Commission Chair Anne Tolley Tauranga is growing quickly, and we can't just keep building new suburbs to accommodate growth. We need to think differently about how and where we live and how we move... Read More

Jan Tinetti Labour MP Super Saturday was a great success here in Tauranga and right around the country, with over 130,000 doses of the Covid-19 vaccination delivered. I spent the day at Merivale Community Centre. It's always great... Read More

Simon Bridges National Party MP simonbridges.co.nz The recent Covid-19 case in Katikati, while eventually coming to nothing, was nevertheless a real wake-up call in our neck of the woods. It has had me really thinking about... Read More

Democracy HQ A personal view, by Councillor Steve Morris The case for merging local water infrastructure into four ‘super-bureaucracies' has been as poorly thought out as the $4 million cartoon campaign advertising it. Contrary... Read More

Winston Watusi Music Plus Two important things are happening this weekend: a farewell and a welcome. The hello is for local musician Brendan McCarthy's debut album, which has occupied my stereo now for a fortnight and impressed... Read More

Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch Regional rivalry has always been a big part of Kiwi culture. Some of my favourite sporting memories involve Ranfurly Shield matches on the terraces of the old Lancaster Park in Christchurch. Spilled... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz In past decades, Mayor Island was synonymous with big game fishing. Up to the 1970's, the catch of a big Marlin or Swordfish was enough to solicit a photograph... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder The ‘Maunder Minimum' is the name given to the period from 1645 to 1715 when the number of sunspots - ‘storms' on the sun - became almost zero. The period is named after the solar... Read More

Todd Talks with Todd Muller National MP Earlier this year, when other countries were vaccinating their citizens, we were told that we didn't need vaccines as quickly as other nations needed them. After all, we had the... Read More

Nigel Tutt Chief Executive of Priority One Super Saturday is an important step in New Zealand's vaccination drive, both for the business community and the general population. The sentiment I get from most businesses is frustration... Read More