12:50pm Tue 16 Sep, 2014
With Election Day four days away political candidates are wrangling over the party vote, with Act Tauranga candidate Stuart Pedersen offering advice on National's... Read More
02:34pm Mon 15 Sep, 2014
Act leader Jamie Whyte firmly believes plans to raise the minimum wage are in 'fantasyland” and New Zealand needs to look at the 'cupcakes” making up... Read More
09:17am Mon 15 Sep, 2014
Imposing minimum safety standards and procedures for security guards will be called for by Tauranga Labour candidate Rachel Jones if she gets into the Beehive this... Read More
08:06am Mon 15 Sep, 2014
UPDATED: Act party leader Jamie Whyte is tackling topics including welfare, education, and crime during his first public meeting in Tauranga today. Jamie is in town... Read More
11:47am Fri 12 Sep, 2014
Labour's Grant Robertson is remaining coy about his decision to contest party leader David Cunliffe's position if all goes sour on September 20, but says he will... Read More
08:05am Fri 12 Sep, 2014
Tauranga MP Simon Bridges could well be in line for a third term in the city's seat judging by an unofficial SunLive reader poll. The poll, asking readers which... Read More
03:04pm Thu 11 Sep, 2014
Uncovering Government debt and culling pre-election talks of possible coalitions are high on Winston Peters' list heading into next week's general election. In Red... Read More
11:15am Thu 11 Sep, 2014
The political wheels keep on turning as the National Party looks to gain extra momentum heading in to the final week of the general election. September 20 marks... Read More
04:39pm Wed 10 Sep, 2014
With Election Day looming our political candidates are out there pressing the flesh and kissing babies in an attempt to secure your vote. But here in Tauranga there... Read More
12:14pm Tue 09 Sep, 2014
A Greenpeace hoax website set up to criticise Tauranga MP Simon Bridges in relation to deep sea oil drilling is being ruled out as an election advertisement. The... Read More
05:10pm Mon 08 Sep, 2014
Tax cuts will begin taking effect from 2017 under a re-elected National Government, Finance Minister Bill English has announced today. In releasing details of the... Read More
06:54am Sat 06 Sep, 2014
A Tauranga political candidate's belief that independent candidates should have their own political colour will have to wait until after the general election under... Read More