Auckland Stories

Lasela Timu-Poe has worked for the last five years on her dream of becoming a police officer. She found her literacy and speech skills were holding her back and so is being helped by Literacy North… Read more Audio

Auckland's Ranfurly Home, which has cared for war veterans for almost a hundred years, is to get a brand new age care facility, to be built as part of a private retirement village on the site. The… Read more Audio

An organisation which has brought the native birds back to Auckland's Waitakere Ranges is celebrating its successes and raising funds at a special concert this Friday. Ark in the Park calls itself a… Read more Audio

Auckland Council's design champion, Ludo Campbell Reid, wants to hear from Aucklanders about how they think central Auckland could be a better place. Audio

A 160-year-old pipe organ at Auckland Museum is said to be the first western musical instrument made in this country. However investigations are revealing that things may not be what they seem. Audio

Lisa Thompson finds out about a new pedestrian and cycling crossing, linking to the Viaduct Basin. It's stage one of the four-stage Wynyard Quarter revitalisation, which will be officially opened in… Read more Audio

Auckland Zoo's Conservation Fund is used to help keep animals in their natural habitats round the world. And its reached almost one million dollars. The fund doesn't come out of the zoo's normal… Read more Audio

A new phenomenon for Auckland this year was the Free Store which distributed food and goods to hundreds of people over one month. Audio

Every New Zealander it seems has a story about Crown Lynn. The companydisappeared in 1989, unable to compete with imported stuff, after trade barriers were removed. But pretty much from the Second… Read more Audio

Hulme Court, which sits proudly near the top of Parnell Rise, was constructed in 1843 when Parnell was still a frontier of colonial Auckland. It is the second oldest surviving house and the oldest… Read more Audio

Hulme Court sits proudly near the top of Parnell Rise. It was constructed in 1843 when Parnell was still a frontier of colonial Auckland. It is the second oldest surviving house and the oldest… Read more Audio

Firefox, is the name given by the Chinese to the little red panda bears, natives of the eastern Himalayas and south western China. These days the breed, red panda is classified as vulnerable. At… Read more Audio

Firefox, is the name given by the Chinese to the little red panda bears, natives of the eastern Himalayas and south western China. These days the breed, red panda is classified as vulnerable. At… Read more Audio

The Auckland firm that repairs and restores people's broken treasures is on a mercy mission this week to Christchurch. David Steemson finds out more in Auckland Story. Audio

Lonely Miaow has been rescuing stray and abandoned cats in Auckland for fifteen years now. But the founder of Lonely Miaow Peter Dorman has bigger plans, to get rid of all unwanted such animals from… Read more Audio

Rechtschaffene Fremde Zimmerer und Schieferdäker Gesellen is the name of an 800-year old German guild of builders and roofers, and two of it's newest members have been in New Zealand for six months… Read more Audio

The Sir Thomas Lipton mullet boat race is 90-years old this year. Audio

In Auckland, refugee families across the city are benefitting from a project aimed at giving unused and unwanted bicycles a second lease on life. Audio

Albertlanders are members of a variety of mostly non conformist churches in the United Kingdom, who came to colonise a little bit of New Zealand, almost 150-years ago. Audio

She calls herself the"flax doctor", and she's been working with New Zealand harakeke for the last fifty years. Judy te Hiwi is weaver, paper maker and a gardener who tends her flax garden. Audio