As a retailer in the CBD, I'd like to say thank you to Rotorua Lakes District Council for establishing the Rotorua Farmers Market

COMMENT: Aucklanders, I'm sorry if it seems we're giving you mixed messages. It's not you, it's us, writes Katie Holland.

The post mortem of the election is hardly behind us, but already the council's spending machine is again in full swing. This time

This is a great week to celebrate Rotorua. Rotorua's visitor industry has seen its best August on record for visitor numbers and

COMMENT: As a child of the Central North Island I can't think of a better place to be than the Bay of Plenty.

Street view: What are your plans for this Labour Weekend? 201016sp3.JPG Just chilling with the family. ANTS HAINES, 32 Pukehangi 201016sp4.JPG I'm

As one of the 'little old great grandmothers' referred to in Rod Petterson's musings, (Letters October 18) I wonder why the pessimism?

Rod Petterson (Letters October 18) writes about potential problems for the elderly with wheelie bins. We are warned that we have

Street View: Do you like the council's plan to lure Aucklanders to Rotorua to live and work? 191016bf1.jpg I'm not too sure. I've

DEFENCE: Rotorua's tulips are a credit to the city, despite what an out-of-towner thinks. PHOTO/STEPHEN PARKER A_270916sp2.JPG Sometime

Street View - Do you support junior doctors going on strike today? 171016sp6.jpg Yes, I'd support anyone who was over-worked. There's

20161007_125053.jpg It was an obviously alcohol-induced slurred voice and was the funniest comment I had heard all night on the racetrack

Yes, as John Pakes said (Letters, October 14), there will be two community boards advising council, but it is in an advisory capacity

Tena ano tatou katoa. I begin today by congratulating our mayor Steve Chadwick and the successful councillors who we have on board

Recently I was involved with the organisation of a fishing trip on Lake Okaro for 31 children with haemophilia. The children, aged

The Westpac Rotorua Business Awards were held on Saturday night. Who is your favourite local business and why? 161016tuhuaDPW.JPG There's

Finally it's official. We can reveal today that Kmart is coming to Rotorua. For some of you, the news may be met with a shrug of

Re comments by Reynold Macpherson. Firstly, at no time was I ever a member of Rotorua District Residents and Ratepayers, although

Street View: Does more emphasis need to be placed on people's mental health? Yes, for people with addictions the community needs

Travelled from Napier for the recent Tulip Festival after seeing it widely advertised that 100,000 tulip bulbs had been planted this

Gambling is one thing that really riles me up. It's just a total waste of money. More often than not you are going to lose money

Street view: Have you been following the US election campaign? 111016sp1.JPG I've not really been following it too much, just been

Well, it didn't take Reynold Macpherson long to complain about the election results (Letters, October 10). Steve Chadwick was re-elected

I should know better than to let comments on social media wind me up - I bite my tongue reading them every day, knowing people have

Street view: What do you think of the new polytech name Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology? 100816sp7.JPG Changing the name doesn't

ADVICE: A letter writer advises Reynold Macpherson now moves on and leaves Rotorua to flourish under the leadership of Steve Chadwick

What a difference a day makes. We have gone from moral outrage to mayoral front page in two short sleeps. Finally, we have trumped

CONCEDE: Dr Reynold MacPherson says mayor Steve Chadwick's majority was slashed by his group. PHOTO/FILE 081016sp10.JPG There is

Karen Hunt will have lost count of the number of times she's had to defend the council's plans for the inner city. As the inner-city

Recently one of my grandchildren enrolled at John Paul College. In the process I found that demand to enrol children there far exceeds