Auckland

Curator Daniel Michael Satele wants us all to think more about water. So he's put together an exhibition of works about water and called it The Drowned World. Named for novelist JG Ballard's dystopian… Audio

Passenger numbers passing through Auckland International Airport in October rose, as international numbers jumped 6.3 percent. Audio

Historical footage showing New Zealand in the 1940s has turned up in California, and the search is on to find out who filmed the images. The silent footage was apparently taken by an American couple… Audio

Precinct Properties has sold a building in Auckland's Queen Street to Robert Jones Holdings for 97 million dollars, nearly one-and-a-half million more than its June book value. Audio

Heritage campaigners say plans to strip an inner-city church of its organ is the beginning of the end for the 87-year-old war memorial building. Audio

The killing of 51 year-old Brett Fraser in West Auckland last month may have been motivated by a cannabis robbery. Audio

The owner of Auckland Fish Market wants it to be as famous as other markets around the world. Audio

Auckland councillors have voted to push forward with a massive IT project that it was confirmed today is 100-million dollars over budget. Audio

The teenager charged with the fatal stabbing of a promising rugby league player outside a Grey Lynn party has lost his name suppression. Audio

Grey Lynn artist Louise Rive took top honours at the 2014 Portage Ceramic Awards last week. Her figurative work The Space Between was praised by judge Takeshi Yasuda for being "emotionally compelling"… Audio

15 percent of houses sold in Auckland in the first half of this year have gone for more than a million dollars. Audio

As Auckland property owners revel in the increasing value of their houses more than three-thousand of the less fortunate are on the waiting list for a state house in the city. Audio

Sales of million dollar plus homes in Auckland have nearly quadrupled over the past decade. Audio

Auckland's housing market is continuing to break records with the latest median sale price now at 640-thousand dollars. Audio

An Auckland hardware store has had to pay nearly 60-thousand dollars, a third of it to a teenage worker who lost two fingers using an industrial saw. Audio

A former teacher will find out in a month whether or not he will stand trial for doing an indecent act in a classroom at one of Auckland's well-known schools. Audio

People have been doing u-turns and heading the wrong way on the Auckland motorway after a driver died when his rubbish truck rolled. Audio

Thousands of Aucklanders crashed the council's website today as they looked for the new values it's put on their homes. Audio

Auckland, Manchester, transport and funding. Audio