West Coast

Writer, filmmaker, and historian Bill Morris discusses New Zealand's oldest Pakeha folk song 'Davy Lowston' at the Wellington Folk Festival 2014. Audio

A Reefton company has won the contract to salvage the first lot of West Coast native timber blown down by a cyclone earlier this year. Audio

Playwright, screenwriter, and director of theatre and film, whose pre-European Maori action movie The Dead Lands opens this coming week, and new play, Pure and Deep, will be staged in Auckland later… Audio

International mining experts say re-entering the main tunnel at Pike River mine is not as risky as Solid Energy fears and should go ahead. Audio

International experts say re-entering the main tunnel at Pike River mine is not as risky as Solid Energy fears and should go ahead. Audio

Mining experts hired by the families of the men who died at Pike River nearly four years ago say re-entering the main tunnel is not as risky as Solid Energy fears and should go ahead. Audio

In June 1913, William Massey's government clamped down on youths who were avoiding recently introduced military training. When a dozen or so young conscientious objectors were incarcerated in Fort… Audio

A look at the Rural Education Activities Programme (REAP ) - an innovative education initiative launched in New Zealand in 1979 . This unique 'cradle to the grave' education programme was set up to… Audio

High winds have grounded the four helicopters that were earlier searching for a lost chopper at the top of the South Island. Audio

Covert tactics are being brought in to tackle the problem of drink driving on the South Island's West Coast. Audio

Official Information Act (OIA) documents show it has been safe to enter the Pike River Mine for nearly a year. Nicholas Davidson is the lawyer for the Pike River Families. Audio

A West Coast community has just made a stretch of highway safer for blue penguins by erecting a 2.6km fence between Punakaiki and Fox River. Inger Perkins speaks to Simon Mercep. Audio

Jools and Lynda Topp have been performing as the Topp Twins for over thirty years, and go on tour across New Zealand in October and November with The Grand Ole Topp'ry show. Audio

Donna Swift is a social anthropologist, reseacher and educator, from the Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology. Donna recently won the Sonja Davies Peace Award for her work in the area of girls… Audio

A long tradition of whitebaiting on Westport wharf has come to an end after the council faced the threat of prosecution. Audio

The whitebait season has begun in most parts of Aotearoa but if you live on the South Island's West Coast, you'll have to wait another week and a half before you can legally fish for the delicacy… Audio

Alwyn Owen explores the lighter side of New Zealand's poetry of patriotism which was fashionable during the latter half of the 19 century and the early 20th. Our patriotic versifiers were eclectic… Audio

Pete the Bushman with tales of his life as a hunter gatherer in Westland, owning his own town, and new book: Pete the Bushman. Hunting tales and back-country lessons from a wild West Coaster. Audio

Professor of Migration Studies at Auckland University of Technology and a member of the panel that wrote the report, Our Futures/Te Pae Tawhiti: the 2013 Census and New Zealand's Changing Population.