Waikato

The sudden closure of Hamilton's major performance centre has caught the local arts community off-guard and people aren't happy. Audio

Hutt Valley school student Julian Dennison stars alongside Sam Neill in the new Taika Waititi film, Hunt for the Wilderpeople. He is joined in the studio by his mother, Mabelle, and his twin brother… Video, Audio

Teaser Bulls are vasectomised bulls that identify cows that are ready to be mated. Jennie Macky leases the 15 month old bulls to farmers to do what they do best in their herds. She says having a… Audio

Sharemilker Andrew McPherson is drilling seed on his Waikato dairy farm. He re-grasses a portion of the farm each year but is finding more and more land looks like it needs a fresh lot of seed because… Audio

Roger Pikia is Te Arawa's representative on the Waikato River Authority. He says the C minus rating for water quality is not unexpected. Audio

Cleaning up the Waikato River will likely take the best part of a century and despite millions of dollars spent on the project, the river will continue to deteriorate for the forseeable future, its… Audio

Professor Jenny Webster-Brown is Director of the Waterways Centre for Freshwater Management a combined initiative of Cantebury and Lincoln Universities. Audio

Real estate agent Peter Bell from LJ Hooker in Taupo shows us 78 Harvey Street. Audio

A Hamilton woman is in hospital after she was attacked in her home late last night by a man wielding a metal bar. Audio