Southland

Shark cage diving is drawing tourists to the Southland Coastline but there's concern among locals that the thrill seeking activity is making sharks more aggressive. Audio

Andris Apse has released a new book titled 'Spirit of the South': a collection of large wilderness photographs of the South Island, chosen from his expansive archive from the past 30 years. Audio

New Zealand landscape photographer who draws from his work of the last thirty years, much previously unpublished, for the new book, Spirit of the South, a photographic tribute to the mainland. Audio

T is for Tuatapere, a small rural town in Southland. Tuatapere is located eight kilometres from the southern coast of the South Island. The town is on the Southern Scenic Route from Invercargill to Te… Audio

A Southland farmer has been ordered to pay more than a 150-thousand dollars in reparation and fines over an employee crushed to death on an Orepuki farm. Audio

Pupils at an Invercargill school have been in lockdown in their school hall this afternoon while police hunt a gunman who tried to rob a local dairy. Audio

The Conservation Department responds to the death a young tourist on the Milford Track earlier this year. It's moving to make visitors more aware of winter hazards on the Southern Great Walks. Allan… Audio

Family doctors and others say a plan to deliver health services closer to where people live in Otago and Southland is both needed and overdue. Audio

The troubled Southern District Health Board has been censured for failing to notice that a woman in its critical care unit had a heart attack. Audio

A look at the Rural Education Activities Programme (REAP ) - an innovative education initiative launched in New Zealand in 1979 . This unique 'cradle to the grave' education programme was set up to… Audio

Amanda Nally from Invercargill nominates 'Black Fingernails, Red Wine' by Eskimo Joe. Audio

Southland vet, Mark Bryan on connecting a variety of swede to the deaths of hundreds of cows, and where this leaves Southland farmers. Audio

Lloyd Esler has spoken with more than a dozen people over the past ten years who have sighted otter-like creatures in Southern waters. Audio

Jools and Lynda Topp have been performing as the Topp Twins for over thirty years, and go on tour across New Zealand in October and November with The Grand Ole Topp'ry show. Audio

Long-time conservationist who has written (with Tony Lindsay and Janet Hunt) the history of New Zealand's wildlife sanctuaries, Paradise Saved. Audio

We've been reporting this morning on a major fire at the Auckland Film Studio in Henderson, which is understood to have damaged an area being used to film the sequel to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon… Audio

Today our New Zealand A to Z takes us to Deep Cove - one of the most remote parts of Doubtful Sound. Audio

People in Te Anau and Manapouri are crying foul over a plan to pump the town's sewage near the local airport and spray it onto 125 hectares of pasture. Audio

Te Anau residents are kicking up a stink about a Southland District Council plan to pump the town's sewage nearly 20 kilometers out of town and spread it on farmland. Audio