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Opinion: Baywide rugby reaches climax

After this weekend Baywide rugby teams split into Premier 1, Premier 2 and Division 1.

Rachel Stewart: Forget Mars - clean our mess up first

COMMENT: I don't want to go to Mars. I want to get Earth fixed.

Letters: Roads need better planning

Bay of Plenty readers have their say

Letters: Teachers protesting over pay and conditions

Letters: Teachers protesting over pay and conditions.

Bryan Gould: Birds of different feathers give us pleasure

Birds remind us that there is another world beyond our own

Letters: Tauranga city's traffic congestion is here to stay

Bay of Plenty readers have their say

Dawn Picken: Happy Child-free Day

Is it wise to celebrate childbearing while we're choking the planet?

Letters: Legislation should focus on cannabis harm, not ideology

Bay of Plenty readers have their say

Letters: Cunning plan for roading woes

Readers have their say.

Letters: Government and council need to act on traffic issues

The Government and council need to act on traffic issues, a reader says.

Gridlock: Cyclists aren't the enemy, says Kiri Gillespie

There needs to be greater awareness, and acceptance, of cyclists on our roads.

Gridlock: Congestion is a symptom, and it can be our vehicle to change

There is, however, a light shining through our congested tunnel.

Calling time out on disrespect towards developing referees

It's time to call time out on disrespectful attitudes towards developing referees

Wilson: Respect for kaumātua and elderhood diminishing

We are getting older - but not wiser, writes Tommy Wilson.

Gridlock: Hundreds of millions of dollars wasted, says Stuart Crosby

Total rethink needed on how we deliver transport for the future.

Opinion: Rugby field no place for violence

If you punch someone on the street you could go to jail, so why not on the sports field?