If you're feeling jaded at the end of the working week, here's some uplifting news.

There are social media outlets for pretty much everything these days.

Rotorua is many things - including a musical hot spot.

Rotorua's Judge Chris McGuire should be congratulated for two sentences he handed down in the Rotorua District Court this week.

It feels like I have a new phone. I went to bed last night with a cranky iPhone, sometimes slow to respond and the icons were looking a bit outdated.

Bizarre is the only way to describe what happened with the America's Cup at the weekend.

What a shambles Christchurch has made of the 2015 Te Matatini Kapa Haka Festival.

For those of us who found school to be a less than jolly experience, Channel 4's series Educating Yorkshire on British television has sometimes made for painful viewing.

Congratulations, Rotorua, it turns out our city is the best place to hold an event.

Prevention: We, as law- abiding citizens, must constantly be vigilant of what we do to minimise opportunities for criminals.

Most of us are rational thinkers prone to bouts of common sense on occasion.

I was pleasantly surprised this week when I went training for the Iron Maori at the Aquatic Centre.

New Zealand is once again near the top of the list of the happiest countries in the world.

We have a really good bunch of readers on our Facebook page.