Auckland Stories

It was military training but not as we knew it. Now two young Aucklanders want adults to rediscover their inner child, get back on their feet, and learn to move again. Audio

The hunt is on for the angry little bulbul bird on Auckland's North Shore. DOC staff have recorded it singing and are playing its own bird song back to it, in the hope that they may be able to trap… Read more Audio

The hunt is on for the angry little bulbul bird on Auckland's North Shore. DOC staff have recorded it singing and are playing its own bird song back to it, in the hope that they may be able to trap… Read more Audio

Auckland University is looking for 300 overweight Aucklanders to take part in a three-year study on diabetes prevention. According to Marta Silvestra New Zealand is the seventh most obese country in… Read more Audio

They're finally putting names to some faces, thanks to an exhibition of photographs of Maori that have lain unidentified for over a hundred years. Audio

Lisa Thompson finds out about an Australian initiative being piloted in Auckland called Sustainability Street. It's a neighbourhood approach to sustainable living which starts with a group of… Read more Audio

Auckland artist Lorna Rikihana of the weaving cooperative Te Roopu Raranga o Tamaki Makaurau has organised a three day workshop at Manukau for school children on harakeke weaving, pottery and… Read more Audio

A car-pooling advocate says Auckland can fix its congestion problems simply, if more Auckland drivers would only share a ride to work. Audio

The tiny north Auckland community of Puhoi is this month celebrating its founding 150-years ago, by a boat load of settlers from Bohemia, which is now part of what is the Czech Republic. After four… Read more Audio

Spoken Features producer Lisa Thompson finds out why a Northland housing trust is now providing accessible housing for people with disabilities in Auckland. Audio

First it was just a road; twenty years ago it became a song, now its art. Composer Don McGlashan's song 'Dominion Road' has become the subject of a piece of guerrilla art, halfway down Dominion Road… Read more Audio

An Auckland Trust that's collected 25 million pieces of litter from the city's harbour and the Hauraki Gulf in a decade has launched a new boat this week. Audio

A organisation which is pushing for more cycleways in Auckland says almost half of all Aucklanders own a bike but few use them because it's just too dangerous. Audio

Auckland's population is predicted to reach two-and-a-half million people by 2043. Where will everyone live? Audio

Afghan interpreters who worked with New Zealand defence force there have just moved into the Mangere Refugee Resettlement Centre with their families. The refugee children are being swamped with… Read more Audio

One of Auckland's oldest ferry companies wants to bring back car ferries between the city's North Shore and downtown. Sealink also proposes dramatically expanding Auckland's passenger ferry network to… Read more Audio

A Samoan master carver is finishing his work on the last of five poles to be centre stage at a new South Auckland preschool. Each has been uniquely carved with traditional designs of five Pacific… Read more Audio

A push to re-open the doors to the Anglican Maori boarding school of St Stephens is gaining traction. Audio

Dozens of native trees are dying at Auckland's Tawharunui Regional Park as a result of the big dry. Endangered kiwi and pateke (the New Zealand brown teal) are succumbing too. Audio

In 1993 the South Auckland freight company Mainfreight became a benefactor of Otara school Baird's Road Primary. Since then the company's given $750,000 to the school and its now bumping up its annual… Read more Audio