Auckland Stories

It's 100 years since the death of Sir John Logan Campbell, considered to be one of the 'fathers' of Auckland. This year's Auckland Heritage Festival is highlighting his contribution. Audio

A non-profit organisation, Youthtown was formed in 1932 in Auckland with a focus on youth development through sport, arts, dance and technology. It has helped shape the lives of hundreds of thousands… Read more Audio

There's a call for New Zealand business leaders to take action to reduce child poverty in this country. It comes from Pam Tregonning, the head of South Auckland's Middlemore Foundation for Health… Read more Audio

One of the fastest planes of World War II will fly again this month in Auckland. She's a legendary wooden-framed Mosquito and she's taken eight years to restore. Audio

Four enterprising young women from a Papatoetoe college plan to educate 800 South Auckland primary children on how to have a healthy lunch for less than two dollars. Audio

One of Auckland's historic homes is getting $1.5 million revamp for its 150th birthday. To celebrate, David Steemson goes to high tea at Highwic. Audio

Lisa Thompson took a tour through the Symonds Street Cemetery to get a better understanding of why we ought to be preserving this important link to our city's history. Audio

Classes teaching the Hindi language are proving a hit for Auckland's Papatoetote High School. It's a New Zealand first for the school. Audio

One of the country's first societies to create a secure sanctuary for native fauna is ten years old. Auckland's Tawharanui Open Sanctuary Society first built a $600,000 predator-proof fence… now it's… Read more Audio

Auckland's waterfront Ferry Building is getting a face lift for its 100th birthday. The National Maritime Museum almost next door to it, is marking the anniversary with a digital exhibition. Audio

"Be Prepared". So say the boy scouts, and also a big group of scientists studying the likelihood of a volcano erupting in Auckland and its economic effect. Audio

Two Auckland women are set to make Olympic history next month when they step into the boxing ring to represent New Zealand. Lightweight Alexis Pritchard and flyweight Siona Fernandes will be the only… Read more Audio

A truckload of hardy souls have spent a blustery soggy day in the Waitakere Ranges marking Matariki. Matariki, or the Maori New Year, is about new beginnings, and altogether the group planted 1500… Read more Audio

One of the country's oldest brass bands has vowed to play on, even though the New Zealand Defence Force cuts its funding at the end of this week. Audio

A little South Auckland foodbank is desperate for more help with food, after losing one of its biggest suppliers. Barbara Stone and her husband started their Mercy Missions Foodbank twenty years ago… Read more Audio

After a two year period of redevelopment, Auckland Viaduct's Tepid Baths will be officially reopened with a public ceremony on 23 June 2012. The building's multi-million dollar facelift pays homage to… Read more Audio

Some residents of Randwick Park in South Auckland used to walk kilometres to the doctor with their sick children because they had no car and no money for a bus. Now they say they're being very well… Read more Audio

A South Auckland woman who's been on a tireless one-woman campaign to feed and clothe the homeless, for the last three decades, says they need warm blankets and sleeping bags right now, to get through… Read more Audio

Mount Eden has been a popular tourist destination for years. Since Christmas a shuttle operated by Ngatiwhatua-o-Orakei has been giving some folks a helping hand up and along the way they also learn… Read more Audio

Aucklander Jeff Evans has got almost 100,000 books delivered free to children at schools in the Pacific Islands. Audio