Street View: Do you think Rotorua needs more accommodation providers? Everyone needs more accommodation everywhere at the moment. PAUL

H Brasser (Letters, October 22) chides council for spending $200,000 on promoting Rotorua to the people of Auckland. I like many

COMMENT: Sadly, the game I once loved has mutated into a smorgasbord of unsavoury fare.

Every special day has an anthem and for me the anthem for Labour Day is Working Class Man, the classic no frills ballad by gravel-voiced

Kelly_Makiha_FEB16.eps About 430 Rotorua residents know how the All Blacks will be feeling today after their record-breaking win against

Street View - Who is your favourite All Black of all time? 231016sp22.jpg That's a hard one, but it has to be Michael Jones. He

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

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

Whether or not their roster demands are met, one thing the striking junior doctors have achieved is an increase in public awareness

Street view: What is your favourite outdoor activity for a sunny day? 181016sj01.JPG Walking in the Redwoods and at the Lakefront. GARY

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

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: Do you think pokie machines should be banned? No, it's up to the user. At the end of the day they can do whatever they

Reynold Macpherson writes in an attempt to analyse his defeat at our recent elections (Letters, October 10). It seems to me he blames

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