Waikato

Four children from a Hamilton school have won a world literacy prize, answering questions on books from Homer's Odyssey to Harry Potter. Audio

Noelle McCarthy reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 4 July 2015. Audio

GP based in Kaitaia, Northland, and author of new memoir The Good Doctor, whose work in healthcare delivery has seen him acknowledged as a Sir Peter Blake Emerging Leader, Public Health Association… Audio

Pregnant women in Waikato are being offered freebies and gift vouchers to quit smoking and have a healthier lifestyle. Audio

Selected by Maniapoto FM - Ringiringi Manawaiti (Ngāti Maniapoto) performs her waiata 'Taku Poutokomanawa'. Audio

The University of Waikato is going to put on a heavily subsidised bus service to get students from Tokoroa and Putaruru to the campus each day, and home again. Audio

Genesis Energy will permanently retire a second unit at its Huntly thermal power plant tomorrow, due to flat demand and cheaper energy sources elsewhere Audio

A large fire at a Waikato winery early this morning is still smouldering after ripping through buildings and a 100-year old cellar. Audio

Amelia Nurse visits ArtsPost Gallery in Hamilton to look at the finalists' entries for the annual Fieldays No. 8 Wire National Art Award. She talks with winning artist Rebecca Rose from Titirangi and… Audio, Gallery

A Huntly teenager is starting a four-and-a-half year sentence for fatally stabbing a man in the North Waikato town during a gang confrontation last year. Audio

If they're lucky and in the right place, Aurora Australis followers have been in for a treat overnight. Audio

Rescuers had to battle their way through cloud and thick ice to reach four trampers who were hurt and suffering from hypothermia. Audio

A conservation group has abandoned legal action to block gold exploration at Mount Karangahake near Paeroa. But the group Protect Karangahake is vowing to fight , though its attempt to get a court to… Audio

Music Director of Hamilton Civic Choir's upcoming performance of the Brahms Requiem. Audio

The annual National Agricultural Fieldays get under way at Mystery Creek near Hamilton today. Audio

Locals have stared down developers at an unspoilt Coromandel beach. Audio

Dunedin novelist, biographer, playwright, short story writer, and New Zealand Poet Laureate, whose new collection, Being Here: Selected Poems, covers the range of his poetry from 1973 to new work… Audio

Benneydale was a mining and milling town that once had a population of about 2000. Today, with those industries gone, it's about a tenth of that. However newcomers are settling in the King Country… Audio