Commission News & Views with Commission Chair Anne Tolley We're now more than halfway through the consultation period for Tauranga City Council's draft 2021-31 long-term plan and your Commissioners are enjoying the opportunity... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz Women's sport is set to rivet serious attention in New Zealand next year, with two high profile sporting tournaments being hosted on our shores. Both the Women's... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder The Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) is a standardized index based on the observed sea level pressure differences between Tahiti and Darwin, Australia. The SOI is a leading measure of the large-scale... Read More

Angie Warren-Clark Labour MP The biggest news this week was Budget 2021 and there is plenty of good news for various sectors across the country including the Bay of Plenty. There will be more about the recovery budget this weekend... Read More

Simon Bridges National Party MP simonbridges.co.nz In my last column I gave my view on our unelected Council. After talking housing and transport where I don't believe our new Commissioners can do much other than help me put... Read More

Winston Watusi Music Plus OK. Let's look ahead this week, since there's a bunch of interesting music seeing out May. And someone mentioned I've been neglecting the Mount recently so let's start there... Firstly,... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz Super Rugby Aotearoa 2021 has been a refreshing change to the southern hemisphere professional rugby competition of the last decade, which reminded Sideline Sid... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder The chart below shows that since 1979, when reliable satellite observations became available, there has been little overall trend in the average tropospheric temperatures, apart from milder/warmer temperatures... Read More

Tamati Coffey Labour List MP Since the election we've been focused on keeping New Zealanders safe from Covid, accelerating our economic recovery, and tackling long-term challenges like housing affordability. Already this term we've... Read More

Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch There's been a lot of mixed messages from the government over the past week or so. For starters, as if it's not bad enough being called a servant in the first place, public servants are now being... Read More

Nigel Tutt Chief Executive of Priority One Priority One recently did a survey of our business members around attitudes and awareness to climate change. The topic is important to us because we want businesses to be well prepared... Read More

Todd Talks with Todd Muller National MP Throughout the year I like to hold public meetings in different parts of the Bay of Plenty electorate. So far I've held these in Welcome Bay and Lower Kaimai. I appreciate the effort... Read More