Waikato

The education landscape in Hamilton has just changed with the city's first Islamic early childhood centre now taking enrolments. The centre is located in the city's mosque and has the name "Iqra"… Audio

Caesar Roose was born in 1886 on an island in the Waikato River, opposite the railway town of Mercer. At the age of eighteen, he launched his first commercial boat and for the next 60-years Roose… Audio

A statue to honour war horses is being pushed for in the Waikato. More than 24,000 horses left New Zealand to serve in the First World War, but only four came back. Stuart Stubb's father - Major… Audio

The first step in developing a three-billion dollar freight, commercial and residential development at Ruakura is underway in Hamilton. Audio

By 2020 it's estimated that, from the Middle East alone, about 70-million people will travel overseas on holiday, spending about $20-billion every year. Andrew McRae reports on symposium held in… Audio

The rights of freedom campers to park-up anywhere on the Coromandel Peninsular is being argued in the High Court in Hamilton. Audio

Anti-abortion campaigners are refusing to stop their weekly picket near Thames Hospital, despite protests from staff that the group is causing distress to the women it's targeting. Audio

People opposed to seabed mining off the North Island's west coast say if an application to mine is successful, it will open a flood of mining activity. Audio

The future of birthing units in two small Waikato towns hangs in the balance as the district health board considers closing them. Audio

Music director Peter Walls explains why Waikato's professional orchestra, Opus, gets heaps of praise from people in high places, but needs heaps more cash to reach its full potential. Audio

More now the hundreds of hectares of a Coromandel forest which have been closed to stop the spread of kauri die back disease. Audio

Move over the America's Cup, Hamilton is making history instead with the first ever race in this country of people paddling giant pumpkins. Audio

A disease which has killed thousands of kauri trees over ten years has spread to the Coromandel, where part of the Whangapoua forest has been closed to try to contain it. Audio

On the afternoon of Sunday March 2, crowds of people gathered under huge oak trees on a property near Morrinsville in Waikato. They were there to mark the 100th anniversary of the tiny but prosperous… Audio

A seaside settlement on a picturesque white sand spit attached to the Coromandel Peninsula. It's a new, modern tourist town with fewer than 350 permanent residents but around 17 hundred baches or… Audio

Julie King feeds more than 200 people a week at Love Soup. Audio

Today marks the start of year long celebrations at Waikato University to mark 50 years since it opened. Audio

That's the boom of the kakapo and if a group of Waikato conservationists is successful, it could be heard once again on New Zealand's mainland. Audio

Waikato Regional Council's consented sites division manager, Brent Sinclair. Audio

This morning a crisis meeting was held in Tokoroa initiated by the country's largest forestry manager, Hancock Forestry Management, following the deaths of two forestry workers in recent weeks… Audio