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Calling time out on disrespect towards developing referees

It's time to call time out on disrespectful attitudes towards developing referees

Review: Whacky lark as bumbling aliens invade village

Welcome To Our Village – Please Invade Carefully a great watch for a cold night out

Khobi Paretoa: Waka ama star on the rise

Rotorua Girls' High School's Khobi Paretoa is collecting an impressive haul of medals.

Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: Down to brass tax - rich have no reason to fear fair

A Capital Gains Tax equals a fairer system of taxation, Raukawa-Tait argues.

Letters: Rubbish shows Rotorua in bad light

A reader says rubbish was strewn along the route for the Rotorua marathon.

Opinion: Rugby field no place for violence

If you punch someone on the street you could go to jail, so why not on the sports field?

Letters: Debt is an investment in our future generations

Debt is an investment in our future generations, a reader says.

Rachel Stewart: Earth is heating up and activism will too

COMMENT: The environmental movement, like every other movement, is changing dramatically.

Race for Rotorua mayoralty heating up, writes Zizi Sparks

Election campaigns have already begun and the battle for the mayoralty won't be boring.

Comment | Israel Folau gives Christians a bad name

Holier-than-thou people are hard to budge, they're not the "contaminated ones"

Opinion: Is it still New Zealand first?

Politics is about appearances but in the end, numbers matter most.

Letters: Good and bad council decisions are down to voters

Readers have their say

Opinion: Why do you think it is important to commemorate Anzac Day?

We asked people on the street why they thought it was important to commemorate Anzac Day.

Letters: The council's CBD car park rule needs to go

Readers have their say

Letters: Security fencing a waste

Readers have their say.

Courage needed when farming through the dry

Comment: During droughts or drought-like conditions, be aware depression is very real.

Letters: Cycleway U-turn not enough

Readers have their say.

Letters: Rates not going up as high as people think

Readers have their say.