Street view: Who was your favourite teacher and why? 220916bf5.JPG My teacher when I was 16 because of how they taught and they

Street view: The Rotorua Business Awards finalists are announced today. What do you think makes great customer service? 200916sp5.JPG Staff

A letter writer suggests it would not be too difficult to buy a motel to house the city's homeless.

Kelly_Makiha_FEB16.eps They say when you love what you do, you never work a day in your life. But what do they say when you run

Tena ano tatou katoa. A few weeks ago, a piece of legislation was passed through Parliament under urgency which sought to amend the

Street view: What are your thoughts on medicinal cannabis? 190916sp1.JPG Get rid of it all together because it affects a lot of people

Letter writers tackled lack of housing for Maori and also the real reasons for empty shops and declining patronage in the CBD.

We asked four people at the Grey Power meet-the-candidates event what they look for when choosing their councillors.

COMMENT: Things are about to get desperate for Rotorua's 130 homeless families housed in motels as the town prepares for the tourism season.

I have now come to terms that I have to have two wheelie bins and a crate - for the next 15 years, whether I like it or not. As

Be out and about for the people. - YVONNE WHITNEY, 34 Western Heights. We need more buskers, more street performers, more entertainment

Teachers are - in my view - some of the hardest working and undervalued people in New Zealand. Sure, they get more official holidays

I disagree with RLC's Strategy/Partnership Leader Jean- Paul Gaston's belief that the changes to the CBD over the last three years

Street view: Are you looking forward to kerbside recycling? Yes absolutely. It's going to be heaps easier to keep the rubbish somewhere

Street view: Do the local body elections interest you? Why/why not? Seeing I've come back to Rotorua, yes. I went to the Baptist

With the local body elections fast approaching I am becoming increasingly concerned with the number of people who believe they are

Well I for one am excited about my new rubbish and recycling bins arriving - as we report today, they will start being delivered this

This may be old hat to some but watching the All Blacks' haka in their latest test match versus Argentina made me very proud to be

The Minister for Education dropped a few bombs on teachers, parents and our children recently. The first one is a funding proposal

COMMENT: Funding for schools should be focused on what matters most: education.

Heath Ledger was a good looking and talented actor, father and son who seemingly had it all. Yet he died, as too many do, far too

Kelly_Makiha_FEB16.eps Election season is a funny old time and brings out the best and worst in us. The best - because suddenly

teururoaflavell.eps Tena ano tatou katoa. It's a fine balancing act being the local MP for Waiariki, co-leader of the Maori Party

I WAS surprised to see Tamati Coffey (Opinion August 27) suggest the Government wasn't taking homelessness seriously or didn't have

For almost 30 years, Rotorua people have had to fight to be on a level playing field with other popular tourist spots, but that is

WELL, that was a wake up call - quite literally. While plenty reported sleeping right through it, plenty more in Rotorua were rudely

Over the next few days, thousands of intermediate aged students will start descending on the Western Bay of Plenty for this year's

LEARNING: Visiting a kindergarten in Fiji was a real world learning experience. Confession time - my child is one of those who skipped

Innocent until proven guilty. It's a fundamental tenet of our justice system. But it seems there are varying shades of grey when it

Kelly_Makiha_FEB16.eps There are some stories you write as a reporter that you'll never forget. This year will be my 20th working