Lobbying For Good with Erika Harvey On July 20, Tauranga will see the preliminary results of our newly-elected council. This is an exciting time for our city, but more importantly it's a time to ensure that the voices... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid On our recent trip to Queensland, I met a sportsman who collects air points like confetti and receives a myriad of petrol discounts each month. Sunshine Coast jockey... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder May Rainfalls 1898-2023 Rainfalls for the month of May have been recorded in Tauranga since 1898 - except for 1904, 1907, 1908, and 1909. The graph shows the range of rainfalls from... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz I was ready to review a couple of local albums today when I heard Rodger Fox had died. I write in advance, of course, so by the time you read this it will be old news.... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny Love satay, crave gado gado, adore salted peanuts… BUT…despise, hate, loathe peanut butter. Figure that. Then a 500ml jars of Pic's extra crunchy was marked down 40 per cent... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid The buildup to the 2032 Brisbane Olympic Games made the media on a couple of occasions in the last week. A former Sunshine Coast Council CEO has been appointed the... Read More

Green Goals with Josh Cole The Green Party has strongly opposed the elimination of Māori Wards and undoing years of advancement. This action not only disregards the principles of Te Tiriti but also deprives Māori... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder Some of the answers to the complexities of the climate system are given in my recently published book Fifteen shades of climate... the fall of the weather dice and the butterfly effect. The... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz Okay. Into the final straight of New Zealand Music Month. Being a month with five weekends I have two columns left: just as well as things are happening apace. I've... Read More

Chief Executive of Priority One with Nigel Tutt The number of cranes at work in our CBD is a clear sign of a city that has some confidence in its future; it shows developers and investors are backing growth prospects with... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny 'Persimmon and cherries, say the bells of St Mary's.” Originally a popular nursery rhyme abut London churches. But we've tinkered with it for convenience, and to point to two outrageous... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid The big Queensland sporting news, in print and on the box last week, was the NRL Magic round held at Suncorp Stadium over the weekend. All the 2024 NRL teams, bar the... Read More