Street View: What can be done to encourage more people to vote? Make it more appealing to young people, it would be good to teach

Whose responsibility is it to make sure people have a roof over their heads? Many people - including Te Ururoa Flavell and Monty

The article regarding the proposed development of Mt Tarawera (Rotorua Daily Post, September 26) is to my mind long overdue and if

I am truly alarmed at the figure given for percentage of voters at local elections - 42 per cent! This is truly alarming. Having

Will you be checking out the new Rotorua Farmers Market on Sunday? 260916sp7.jpg Is there a new farmers' market? I'll have to check

Sydney Harbour. Photo/Ngahihi Bidois Last weekend I presented a leadership keynote to Strategic IT in Sydney. To be more precise:

ACTION: Blair Hartley and other Hamurana and Kaharoa residents are taking action about roads in their area which they think are dangerous

Street view: What's the best part about daylight savings? 250916sj01.JPG Extra daylight time at night. ALLEN THEOBALD, 70 Central 250916sj02.JPG It

There's nothing that gets people going more than talk about bad drivers and dangerous roads. On Tuesday last week the Rotorua Daily

Kelly_Makiha_FEB16.eps While there's nothing I enjoy more than a good debate over who will be the best mayor for our city and who

Street view: Who was your favourite teacher and why? 220916bf5.JPG My teacher when I was 16 because of how they taught and they

Street view: The Rotorua Business Awards finalists are announced today. What do you think makes great customer service? 200916sp5.JPG Staff

A letter writer suggests it would not be too difficult to buy a motel to house the city's homeless.

Kelly_Makiha_FEB16.eps They say when you love what you do, you never work a day in your life. But what do they say when you run

Tena ano tatou katoa. A few weeks ago, a piece of legislation was passed through Parliament under urgency which sought to amend the

Street view: What are your thoughts on medicinal cannabis? 190916sp1.JPG Get rid of it all together because it affects a lot of people

Letter writers tackled lack of housing for Maori and also the real reasons for empty shops and declining patronage in the CBD.

We asked four people at the Grey Power meet-the-candidates event what they look for when choosing their councillors.

Street view: What age do you think kids should be allowed on social media? 150916sp4.JPG I think it's all an educational journey

I have now come to terms that I have to have two wheelie bins and a crate - for the next 15 years, whether I like it or not. As

Be out and about for the people. - YVONNE WHITNEY, 34 Western Heights. We need more buskers, more street performers, more entertainment

Teachers are - in my view - some of the hardest working and undervalued people in New Zealand. Sure, they get more official holidays

I disagree with RLC's Strategy/Partnership Leader Jean- Paul Gaston's belief that the changes to the CBD over the last three years

Street view: Are you looking forward to kerbside recycling? Yes absolutely. It's going to be heaps easier to keep the rubbish somewhere

Street view: Do the local body elections interest you? Why/why not? Seeing I've come back to Rotorua, yes. I went to the Baptist

With the local body elections fast approaching I am becoming increasingly concerned with the number of people who believe they are

Well I for one am excited about my new rubbish and recycling bins arriving - as we report today, they will start being delivered this

This may be old hat to some but watching the All Blacks' haka in their latest test match versus Argentina made me very proud to be

Street View: Where were you when you heard about 9/11? 120916sp1.JPG I was 3, so I don't remember. KATIE STEVENSON, 18 Holdens Bay 120916sp2.JPG I

Kelly_Makiha_FEB16.eps Homeless people used to be a rarity. I remember as a kid, a homeless man turned up in my hometown of Timaru