Waitakere
Alison Ballance retrospective 5: kauri dieback disease
Alison Ballance revisits a 2013 feature on kauri dieback disease and talks to Nick Waipara to find out how the northern kauri forests are coping with the disease in 2021. Audio
Disease rates spark fear kauri could be extinct within 20 years
Auckland Council figures show that from 2011 to 2016 the spread of kauri dieback disease has more than doubled in the Waitakere Ranges. In some areas, like Piha, up to almost 60 percent of trees are… Audio
Pollution team monitors Auckland fire aftermath
An council pollution team is at the Waitakere Refuse Transfer Station, which was damaged by a huge fire this afternoon.
Kauri protester's plea to meet tree owners
A man who staged a treetop protest in West Auckland to protect a kauri will have to wait a further three weeks to hear his sentence.
Swift-watch ruffles a few feathers on Auckland's west coast
For the past few days, the country has been all a-flutter as rumours have been flying about that the American song bird, Taylor Swift, had landed in New Zealand. Audio
Thieves make off with 170 motorbikes and scooters
Waitakere Police are hunting a gang of thieves who've stolen 170 motorbikes from a warehouse in Kelston on Sunday night or early Monday morning. Audio
Playing Favourites with Murray Gray
Former bookseller in Titirangi, Auckland, and founder and programme director of the Going West Books and Writers Festival, celebrating its 20th anniversary. Audio
The Whatipu Cave Dances
A giant cave on Auckland's wild West Coast used to be the city's most memorable - and most mysterious - ballroom. Dances were held for more than sixty years at the Great Cave at Whatipu but are now… Audio
Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery
It's taken two years to build but Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery is now open. Justin Gregory went to see the West Auckland gallery a year ago when it was just beginning to take shape and to… Audio
Playing Favourites with Bob Harvey
Former advertising agency owner, political strategist, environmental campaigner, television producer, mayor, and subject of the new biography, Wild Westie. Audio
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
Kennedy will be in the crown of a dying kauri that he will be climbing into with a couple of arborists in the Waitakeres. From that lofty perch he will talk to us about kauri dieback disease, one of… Audio
Composer, sound designer and photographer Tim Prebble
Tim Prebble has spent the last two months holed up in Little Huia in Auckland's Waitakere Ranges Regional Park. He's the artist in residence at Barr Cottage, creating works from thousands of photos of… Audio
A Place In The Sun - Phil Twyford in the Waitakere Ranges
Phil Twyford is halfway through his walk on the Hillary Trail in the Waitakere Ranges. Audio
Bob Harvey: Untamed Coast
A revised edition of Bob Harvey's book 'Untamed Coast', about the West Coast of Auckland and the Waitakere Ranges, provides a detailed guide on the newly opened Hillary Trail. It also tells the… Audio