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3:36 PM.After a two year period of redevelopment, Auckland Viaduct's Tepid Baths will be officially reopened with a public ceremony on 23 June 2012. The building's multi-million dollar facelift pays homage to… Read more Audio

3:36 PM.Some residents of Randwick Park in South Auckland used to walk kilometres to the doctor with their sick children because they had no car and no money for a bus. Now they say they're being very well… Read more Audio

3:34 PM.A South Auckland woman who's been on a tireless one-woman campaign to feed and clothe the homeless, for the last three decades, says they need warm blankets and sleeping bags right now, to get through… Read more Audio

3:35 PM.Mount Eden has been a popular tourist destination for years. Since Christmas a shuttle operated by Ngatiwhatua-o-Orakei has been giving some folks a helping hand up and along the way they also learn… Read more Audio

3:32 PM.Aucklander Jeff Evans has got almost 100,000 books delivered free to children at schools in the Pacific Islands. Audio

3:34 PM.There are forty two trees in the street, and the residents of Flatbush Road say they've gotta go. The Otara folk say they've been fighting for thirteen years to get the Pin Oaks cut down, but now… Read more Audio

3:33 PM.Lisa Thompson went to the South Auckland Pacific Arts Summit, which celebrates a broad spectrum of Pacific arts and culture. Over the month of May, the Summit will feature exhibitions, a live public… Read more Audio

3:36 PM.Jim Halford must rate as one of the country's oldest newspaper delivery boys. At 75 he's just retired, after 26 years on his beat delivering up to 140 copies of South Auckland's Manukau Courier three… Read more Audio

3:37 PM.Community Fruit Harvesting was started by Di Celliers on the North Shore of Auckland when she noticed fruit rotting on the ground in backyards in her community. So, with a group of friends as… Read more Audio

3:35 PM.Auckland singer song-writer Johnny Matteson has spent two decades spreading positive messages about mental health through his music. After being diagnosed with manic depression in his teens, he earned… Read more Audio

3:38 PM.A group of Auckland lesbians are looking for angel investors to fund this country's first Lesbian Elder Village. Audio

3:33 PM.A desire to live in an energy-efficient home free from damp, has pushed Philip Ivanier and his family to create an Australasian first. When completed, the Ivanier's Glendowie home will be the region's… Read more Audio

3:32 PM.The survival stories of many Polish orphans brought to New Zealand after World War Two are depicted in a new exhibition of paintings at Auckland's Polish Museum. Audio

3:35 PM.Mary Rahiti has beaten the odds by losing half her body weight, surviving a life-threatening tumour operation, and becoming a national body building champion. Audio

3:36 PM.Sixteen-year-old Albany school boy Mark Glover is one of six finalists world-wide chosen in an international Virtual Robot competition. He's planning to be in the US in April to pick up his prize! Audio

3:38 PM.In a time when people are spoilt for entertainment choice, theatres are having to fight harder to attract audiences through their doors. However, one community theatre in Auckland has proven it can… Read more Audio

3:30 PM.First there was beachcombing. Now its "earthcombing"… exploring what's under our very feet. Audio

3:33 PM.Teenage fathers are learning how to become better dads, as a result of a new course run by Auckland's Otara Health Charitable trust. So far the centre's run two of the courses, and another starts this… Read more Audio

3:30 PM.Tucked away on a quarter-acre oasis near Mt Albert, Bonsaiville was established in the early 1960s and boasts over 400 bonsai. Lisa Thompson recently met bonsai enthusiasts Bob Langholm and Simon… Read more Audio

3:33 PM.Thirteen South Auckland beneficiaries are ready for the work force after finishing a back-to-work course run by Manurewa's Parenting Hub. Audio

3:34 PM.Author Dee Pigneguy and her husband Mike live tucked away on an urban oasis, deep within Glenfield on Auckland's North Shore. An avid gardener and an advocate of living sustainably, Dee teaches… Read more Audio

3:35 PM.Rotoroa Island in Auckland's Hauraki Gulf is no longer an "island apart". For a hundred years it was the Salvation Army's alcohol and drug treatment centre, and off-limits to the public. Now after a… Read more Audio

3:35 PM.Some South Auckland kids have been out on the streets nabbing speeding drivers near their schools. It's all part of a police road safety campaign, and best of all, the children get to tell the… Read more Audio

3:35 PM.Lisa Thompson reports on the Auckland Town Hall Centenary birthday party. Audio

3:34 PM.It's being claimed as a first in New Zealand - a public fair day at the Auckland's Women's Prison. All the crafts and baking were done by the inmates and the proceeds went to good causes. Audio