Carmen Hall: G-strings are for the bedroom, not beach
COMMENT: As the mum, I worry about the impression this trend is making on young girls.
COMMENT: As the mum, I worry about the impression this trend is making on young girls.
COMMENT: We were lucky to buy our home but others haven't been.
Insatiable demand for consumption is upsetting the natural balance on which life depends.
COMMENT: It is hard to comprehend the loss of lives and wildlife.
Comment: Ensuring reparation system doesn't re-victimise people is the least we can do.
This is a neverending war with periods of peace after bouts of extermination.
COMMENT: The past few years have been dead on December 31, it's time for change.
COMMENT: For most of us, 2020 will be neither smashing success nor abject failure.
One month on the effects of the eruption are still seen in the small community.
COMMENT: They deserve an international reputation.
COMMENT: Help lifeguards stay afloat. You never know when they might do the same for you.
Opinion: Readers have their say.
COMMENT: Offenders are putting lives at risk.
COMMENT: We can each set our own standards.
Fat Freddy's Drop sent Tauranga dancing through the night.
And now we're paying the price at our funerals.
Other projects may need to take a back seat.
Our country's reality is that we all need to play a role in a clean water solution.
Bay of Plenty readers have their say.
Recognising the people who quietly make way for greatness.
There is no salvation for any of us if we go on asserting that nothing need change.
Aspirations for a better Bay of Plenty in 2020
Between the Flags campaign highlights work our surf lifesavers do.
The past six weeks have seen donations for food banks flow in.
The lesson is not so much about how to win an election as about how to lose one.
"Many New Zealand men have developed a fear of being alone with small kids."