Southland

Writer, filmmaker, former professional fly-fishing guide, founder of the Wanaka Flyfishing Academy, host of the Trout Diaries podcast, and author of new book, Going to Extremes: Adventures in Unknown… Audio

Muslims in Invercargill say suggestions they are being radicalised in their Mosque is nonsense. Audio

Painter, poet, curator and writer Gregory O'Brien discusses Horse with Hat by Marty Smith, and Edwin's Egg & Other Poetic Novellas by Cilla McQueen Audio

The Conservation Minister, Nick Smith's, decision to reject plans for a 2-hundred and 40-million dollar monorail through conservation land in Fiordland, draws the curtain on 10 years and three massive… Audio

Shunkan, with Wash You Away, from her EP Honey, Milk, and Blood. https://artishardrecords.bandcamp.com/album/honey-milk-and-blood Audio

It's an Island off our coast named by early European settlers in 1841 as New Leinster. The name stuck for only five years. In the end its English identity came from the man who first mapped it. Audio

It's a modern village, sitting beside our second largest lake, a body of water of 344 square kilometers and 417 metres deep in places. Surrounded by imposing mountains, this town straddles the border… Audio

Two of the creators of Wheel of Experience, a musical show that brings the 'wild west' of New Zealand to life and will travel the country throughout May. Audio

The Maori called it Aparima but when European whalers arrived in 1835, they named it after a prominent Maori fisherman who lived near the mouth of the estuary and whom they all called Jacob. Jacob's… Audio

Dr. Michael Stevens, history lecturer at Otago University and a proud "Bluffie", has received a Marsden Fund Fast-Start grant to research the history of Bluff between the years 1800 and 2000. He… Audio

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge spent the seventh day of their Australasia tour in Otago yesterday, first in Dunedin and then Queenstown. Audio

This famous Invercargill acoustic duo are touring the nation with Twizel native Sarah Conlon. They're all performing live in the studio with Nick Atkinson. Audio

Farmers, rural councils and business leaders are joining forces to fight a billion dollar redistribution of road funding to the big cities, and in particular to pay for the Roads of National… Audio

The backers of a multi million dollar highway linking the West Coast and Milford Sound say paper roads up and down the country could be at risk, after they found out their road doesn't exist on… Audio

Tracey Wedge is the museum co-ordinator. Audio

Lynn Freeman finds out how the money will be used and what the tourists think about it. Audio

The Department of Conservation staff on Stewart Island/Rakiura have a vast area of national park to cover, and restructuring has not made that responsibility any easier. Audio

There are mixed views on Stewart Island/Rakiura when it comes to Gareth Morgan's multimillion-dollar conservation plan to create the world's first predator-free island with a substantial human… Audio

Lynn Freeman continues her series on Stewart Island/Rakiura, this time joining DoC trappers, Josephine Sheppard Anthony Hobern as they headed out by boat to the trap site. Audio

One of the biggest drawcards to Stewart Island are the Rakiura tokoeka, the kiwi. Audio