Wellington Region
New Zealand Festival update with Lynn Freeman
For the first time the Wellington based New Zealand Festival and the Auckland Arts Festivals are running head to head. They are not only sharing some shows, but also sharing the costs of commissioning… Audio
Unconsented bathroom costs estate agent $5000
Selling a family member's non-compliant apartment has cost a Wellington real estate agent $5000.
Kaka with diabetes euthanised
Four young kaka at the Pukaha Mount Bruce Wildlife Centre have had to be euthanised, with the centre's manager calling it a very difficult decision.
Upper Hutt fire threatens houses
Fifteen fire crews and a helicopter with a monsoon bucket are battling a scrub fire in Upper Hutt which is threatening two houses.
Golden favourite sure to shear competition
World champion shearer Rowland Smith is the hot favourite to win this week's Golden Shears in Masterton.
Forty laundry jobs cut at Wellington Hospital
Forty people who have worked for decades at Wellington Hospital have lost their jobs after the hospital contracted out its laundry services to a Palmerston North based company. Audio
40 laundry jobs cut at Wellington Hospital
Wellington Hospital is cutting 40 jobs after it contracted out laundry services to a Palmerston North-based company.
Man dies after cardiac arrest in police college swimming pool
A man has died after having a cardiac arrest in a swimming pool at the national police college in Porirua. An ambulance was called just after noon today but the...
Children discover Chinese dance
They've performed over 40 times around the world but now an international folk dance troupe from Xiamen are giving schools across Wellington workshops in Chinese Folk Dance, celebrating Chinese New… Audio, Gallery
Children discover Chinese dance
They've performed over 40 times around the world but now an international folk dance troupe from Xiamen are giving schools across Wellington workshops in Chinese Folk Dance, celebrating Chinese New…
AudioMurdoch Stevens - Behind the Scenes of a Publishing House
What gets published and what doesn't? How is it presented and illustrated? What gets heavily-edited and what sticks close to the original? These are all decisions made behind the closed doors of the… Audio
The Complicated Game of Love
Songwriters, poets, and artists the world over have found great inspiration from it, but today, finding love is a game that comes with a raft of complicated, and sometimes unwritten rules. Audio
Inner Space
For two shows only the Space Place at Carter Observatory will host an immersive, audiovisual exploration of the cosmos with The Tuataras. Yadana Saw heads to the opening-night set up and takes a space… Video, Audio
Eb & Sparrow: small-town soundings
Members of the Wellington band Eb & Sparrow (Ebony Lamb, Nick Brown, Jason Johnson and Chris Winter) join Kim Hill in the RNZ music studio ahead of their month-long tour to small New Zealand centres.
…Rebecca Priestley: anthologising Antarctica
Senior Lecturer in the Science in Society Group, Victoria University of Wellington, and editor of Dispatches from Continent Seven: an Anthology of Antarctic Science, a new collection of writings by… Audio
Lee Tamahori: Making 'Mahana'
Filmmaker whose first New Zealand movie in 20 years, Mahana, adapted from the novel Bulibasha by Witi Ihimaera, tells the story of two Maori sheep-shearing families on the East Coast in the 1960s. Mah… Audio
Syrian refugees welcomed to new home
About 90 Syrian refugees - the first to arrive since the government announced its additional intake - have been welcomed in Wellington. Video
Refugees touch down in Wgtn amid concerns over funding
There are concerns in the capital about whether there is enough funding to support the new Syrian refugees, who arrived this afternoon. Video, Audio
The Offensive Nipple Show
Amelia Nurse hits the beach with Wellington Fringe Festival artists Sarah Tuck and Jess Holly Bates to chat about their sold out Bat's play The Offensive Nipple Show - coming soon to Auckland. We join… Audio
