Annemarie Quill: What odds on Oliver Oliver?
Let the games begin! Not those ones in Rio, but the guessing games over Jamie Oliver's baby name. The latest addition to the chef's
Let the games begin! Not those ones in Rio, but the guessing games over Jamie Oliver's baby name. The latest addition to the chef's
By the end of last week I could hardly wait for the Olympics to start. We made a day of watching the opening ceremony and ever since
National's KiwiSaver HomeStart helps New Zealanders into a modest first home. Since the Government launched the scheme, it has helped
I have followed the saga of the downtown redevelopment project with keen interest over the past few months. Last week, someone articulated
According to the Sensible Sentencing Trust, our police are struggling to deal with a worsening "P epidemic". The trust claims New
State Highway 2 from Tauranga to Waihi is known as one of the most notorious stretches of road in the Bay. It has claimed numerous
Every year about this time when the cold days and dark nights of August come around I start making promises to myself that I am going
A 24-hour liquor ban in Te Puke can only be a good thing. This week councillors on the Western Bay of Plenty District Council policy
How flattering of Hillary Clinton to borrow fashion tips from Helen Clark while they both audition for top jobs. It was Prime Minister
The greatest sports event on the planet is about to kick off with more than 10,000 athletes getting ready to become the focus of the
Harry Potter mania has once again swept across the globe. Billed as the eighth instalment in the series, Harry Potter and the Cursed
There are a lot of good rugby yarns shared after a post-match battle on a footy field. Over the years, just like a Chinese whisper
There is something about the Olympic Games every four years that is simply irresistible to me. They call it the Greatest Show on
Turning 18 is a big deal in New Zealand. Once you're 18, you can drink, vote, smoke, buy scratchies, place bets at the TAB or use
They've been the best of times, surely, free of war and famine, well fed and medicated, never needing to bother about things that
No matter the circumstances, the loss of a young life is always a tragedy. Shargin Stephens, who died on Tuesday nearly two weeks
Observation and knowledge of reality are topics that raise all sorts of prickly philosophical questions, chief among them the one
The International Olympic Committee's decision not to ban the Russian Federation from the Rio Olympics is a blow to clean athletes
I've always bought free-range eggs. I've never thought twice about it. If I'm a bit strapped for cash, I will forgo eggs, rather than
Have you ever walked past someone and said to yourself: "geez he looks familiar - in fact he looks just like me?" I remember watching
As a society we seem to be getting more and more lazy. Far-fetched as it may seem, it does make me wonder if one day we really could
What better way to encourage people to recycle than by paying them to do it. That is essentially what Tauranga City Council voted
It's hard in today's connected, catalogued world to go off grid and be intrepid. Unless you're prepared to go to some fairly extreme
It's a mind-blowing level of corruption, even for Russia. A report commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency has revealed that
Over the weekend I went to the greatest game of rugby I have seen. It wasn't the skills, or the score, that made it so outstanding
United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsburg recently told the New York Times that if Donald Trump became President she would
You've got the whole world in your hands, was a huge hit in the '60s and it could be making a comeback. If you can rewind the memory
It seems to have been a fortnight of violence. America is in the most volatile state I have ever seen after police shot African American
To be honest, I don't know what all the fuss is about this Pokemon Go craze that is sweeping the world. For those of you who have
Everyone should watch Fox News a few times a year, if only to be reminded of why women have legs. It's certainly not for walking. I