Tauranga needs a first-class bus system - fast, writes Samantha Motion.

Letters: Tauranga children right to strike over climate change

COMMENT: Political commentators have a duty to be balanced, writes Bryan Gould.

Plenty of ideas out there to make Tauranga better

Playwright Devon Williamson has surpassed himself with "Murder on the Menu".

Tommy Wilson: When is the right time to move on from tragedy?

We all need to stand up to racism, a reader says.

Letters: Open the Welcome Bay slip road

Moving on is a myth. What are we really feeling 2 weeks after the Christchurch attacks?

Readers have their say

Bryan Gould: 'We are all in the same waka'

Letters: Quick changes to our laws a concern.

Opinion: We must celebrate our differences

Letters: Transport solutions need to be revised.

To see a man known to be gentle and friendly become shaken and scared is heartbreaking.

AFLW player Tayla Harris has slammed vulgar comments made about an image of her at work

Letters: Military-style semi-automatics need to go.

Tommy Wilson: Two words we should never utter

COMMENT: Whatever Govt decides, I am fully prepared to relinquish my semi-automatics.

Letters: Welcome Bay congestion needs to be sorted

Letters: Darkest day will be etched in our minds forever

Letters: New Zealand has no cause to allow semi-automatic weapons

Christchurch shooting preoccupies Bay of Plenty letter writers.

COMMENT: Whatever mask terrorism wears, we must be clear it will not be tolerated.

COMMENT: Two of New Zealand's darkest days, in the same city, just eight years apart.

Christchurch mosque shootings: Vigils being held in Tauranga

No longer can we look down our noses at gun crime in America.

They're a touchy topic right now

Letters: The paradox of climate change

Traffic congestion is frustrating