Southland

While it's undoubtedly good PR for a sport that has its fair share of detractors, the deer hunters at Mason Bay on Stewart Island/Rakiura are genuinely keen to help out with the extensive rat trapping… Audio

Pulling and poisoning lupins at Mason Bay on Stewart Island, was the big assignment for the group of Department of Conservation volunteers in November. Audio

Tim Shadbolt is about to start his ninth term as Mayor, having been re-elected in invercargill for the seventh time. Audio

Meri Leask has single handedly kept Bluff Marine Radio going for more than 30 years. Audio

Kennedy Warne explores the Milford monorail proposal. Audio

Looking into the minister's decision over the Milford tunnel, and the intrinsic value of the land. Audio

For 40 years, country music fans from all over the country have descended on Gore for a celebration of country music, the New Zealand Gold Guitar Awards. What started as a humble gathering with just… Audio

We travel back to the early 1980's with Avice McKenzie and venture to Mason's Bay on the west coast of Stewart Island to spread the ashes of her dad at his turangawaewae. Audio

Fjords and fins in New Zealand's Fjordland. Audio

Our deepest lake is officially Lake Hauroko in Fiordland at an ear-popping 462 metres. Now some irregular depth readings are surfacing at Lake Manapouri. Neil Collinson is the Operations Manager of… Audio

The best places to spend the summer in New Zealand. Audio

Insight goes to Taranki, Gisborne and Southland to consider there economic futures in the face of possible population declines. Audio

The city's Globe Theatre is the focus of paranormal investigators. Audio

With Don Mackie - Mininstry of Health's Chief Medical Officer and Libby Burgess - chair person of the Breast Cancer Aotearoa Coalition. Audio

We pay a virtual visit to one of New Zealand's museums. Tonight, Jim Geddes of the Hokonui Moonshine Museum. Audio

A virtual visit to one of New Zealand's museums with Sharon Dell of the Hocken Collections in Dunedin. Audio

When alcohol was banned in Southland in 1902 moonshine flowed illegally from the Hokonui Hills west of Gore. Most of it was made by the McRae family, a Scottish clan who had been driven off their land… Audio

Tarek Basley visited one of New Zealand's most prestigious art collections - in Gore, Southland. Audio

Invercargill, Gore, Bluff, Takitimu Mountains, Riverton Aparima, Raiura Stewart Islands, Bush names: with Peter Dowling, revising editor of AW Reed's 'Place Names of New Zealand'. Audio

Time now to visit another small New Zealand Community. Last week we took a look at the town named after our 17th Prime Minister, Joseph Ward. Today we are in the place he grew up in as a child. Audio