Waikato

Historian Mark Derby and documentary painter Bob Kerr collaborate to remember the 1912 Waihi miners' strike in words and images in a book called Waiheathens. Audio

Sunday is Armistice Day, the anniversary of the signing of the Armistice between the Allies and Germany to officially end the First World War. In Cambridge, the commemorations actually begin tomorrow… Audio

Colin Brown runs Lake Farm Beef from his picturesque property overlooking Lake Karapiro. He breeds and raises Angus and Angus Piedmontese cross cattle to sell directly to consumers, a farm to plate… Audio

A Gallipoli hero who created one of the most enduring images of the First World War will have a street in Hamilton renamed in his honour. Sapper Horace Moore-Jones landed at Anzac Cove in April 1915… Audio

Winiata Harrison, an 81-year-old Coromandel master carver and kaumatua chats with Cosmo Kentish-Barnes about his life and work from his carving house on the families Harataunga farm. Audio

The main road into Thames has split, revealing an important part of the area's gold mining history. Part of a pump that was built in 1888 to drain the town's richest gold mines can now be seen through… Audio

Thousands of New Zealanders paid their respect to fallen soldiers and service people on ANZAC day, nearly one hundred years after the allies landed on the beaches of Gallipoli. Speaks to the Turkish… Audio

Kakepuku is a steep, distinctive mountain to the south west of Te Awamutu in Waikato. Seventeen years ago local farmers started pest control work on its 200 hectares. Now the bush has regenerated, and… Audio

Raglan Area School has a surfing academy which attracts some of the country's top young surfers. Audio

Doug Wallace uses horses to pull a bush-tram through his plantations near Taupo. Audio

Ecologist Geoff Park examines the impact of European agriculture on the Hauraki Plains country, once the site of the richest pre-colonial Maori culture. It's also where the country's future landscape… Audio

A keen surfer, Aaron Kerepopa began carving snapped surfboards and his work developed from there. Now one of his works can fetch thousands of dollars and he is a full time artist. Audio

Benneydale is a small town in the Waitomo district, 35 kilometers south of Te Kuiti. Our tour guides are Chris Poole, Murray Patterson and Jill Harding. Audio

With less than 1% of its natural vegetation remaining, Hamilton city is working hard to restore urban biodiversity Audio

The fellowship between Sir Peter Jackson and acting unions is apparently fraying, well before any green light is given to film two Hobbit movies. Hundreds of New Zealand actors say they will not work… Audio

A Waikato University 'large river' research project is focusing on life in New Zealand's longest river Audio

Westland, Southland, the Chatham Islands and Marlborough all have their own Anniversary day. So does Nelson and Wellington. Aucklanders celebrated their Anniversary on Monday... and people in the… Audio

We take our last look at a native bird today by travelling to Turangi in the central North Island. Audio

Once a thriving gold mining town, Kuaotunu is a beautiful coastal village located 15kms north of Whitianga on the Coromandel Penninsula. Audio

New Zealand's only narrow-guage mountain railway, the Driving Creek Railway near Coromandel Town. Audio