Auckland Stories

Auckland story with David Steemson. Audio

Sapna Samant talks to a bunch people about First Thursdays, a new initiative beginning on 3rd December at St Kevin's Arcade on Karangahape Rd - including business student Cleo Barnett, publicist… Read more Audio

An Auckland community developer has launched an embroidery project, which she hopes will bring new and old cultures of New Zealand, together. Joan Hamilton is basing her plan on the"Democracy… Read more Audio

Auckland's Carlton-Cornwall Park Lawn Bowls Club is looking to the young for its future. And the club has just spent three million dollars on modern new clubrooms. Audio

The massive concrete dragon that's been a hit with children at Auckland Zoo for the last 50 years has just been given a big makeover. Now officially named "Cedric the Dragon", after the man who built… Read more Audio

It's almost twenty years since the Berlin Wall came tumbling down. That moment is being marked round the world, including Auckland. Sapna Samant investigates what's happening in the Queen City, and… Read more Audio

Cycling to work as a commuter in Auckland. Next Bike is the company that's had the idea. Audio

David visits an exhibition which pays tribute to the battles for Paschendaele in Belgium. One of which saw a thousand New Zealanders killed in just one day, on the 12th October 1917. Audio

Northshore City is marking its heritage. That festival runs through till next Monday. It was launched with a parade of heritage wedding dresses through the decades. David Steemson went to have a look… Read more Audio

Auckland is currently celebrating the Heritage Festival and as part of the festival the Auckland City Council, the NZ Maritime Museum and Auckland Regional Migrant Services have joined forces to take… Read more Audio

He talks to two long time residents of notorious Madeleine Avenue about their lives there. Audio

He visits Auckland's Queens Wharf. It'll be open to the public for the first time in years this coming Sunday. Audio

A person-powered hydro bike is being used to pump water to community gardens in Waitakere City. It's all part of the area's multi-million dollar Twin Streams project aimed at improving water drainage… Read more Audio

Work is due to start this week on the country's new National Navy Museum, right on the seafront at Devonport. Audio

They say you can get pretty well any food you want in Auckland - the trick is knowing where to go, and that certainly applies to the Ethiopian bread known as Injera. Audio

The Department of Conservation is now well into its massive pest eradication, on the adjoining islands Rangitoto and Motutapu in the Hauraki Gulf. Audio

Up for discussion are incentives for building owners to protect and conserve Audio

South Aucklanders are doing it for themselves! That hazily defined area"somewhere"south of Auckland City has got a pretty bad rap over the last few decades. But people there are working hard to… Read more Audio

Motutapu will become what DOC thinks is the world's first pest free commercial farm. Audio

A decade-long storm water project in Waitakere City has so far attracted 15-thousand local people who've volunteered to clear streams and replant river banks. Audio