Hawkes Bay

Jim Morunga's been serving his community for 40 years. Last year he was named New Zealand's Local Hero of the year. Other regional winners were in the running, but Napier-based Jim took the top award… Audio

The Police in Hawke's Bay say a major drug operation has netted a big player in the local methamphetamine trade. Audio

Exploring end-of-life care for Māori patients and their whānau. Audio

New Zealand wool grease earns the economy up to $30 million dollars a year. Because our sheep eat lush green grass, wool grease produced here differs in its chemical make up to other types of wool… Audio

A music and drama teacher who indecently assaulted girls was on track towards worse offending when he was caught. Audio

Hawkes Bay's Jakob have a lot of peaks and troughs - both in their sound, and their career as a band. Their first new album in eight years, Sines, arrives this week, and it's been a journey fraught… Audio

For Sharyn Hildreth having MS has meant often needing to have a 'plan B'. Directing plays rather than acting in them has become her latest 'plan B'. Sharyn is one of 4000 New Zealanders who live with… Audio

Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan helped break down barriers for both Maori and women. Her fashion sense was also ground breaking, and some of her wardrobe now features in a Hawkes Bay gallery exhibition… Audio

Furniture designer David Trubridge on his dream of helping to protect a traditional Pacific raft thofotho from being forgotten. Audio

Players from Garageland, Grand Prix and A Twin Moon all left the big smoke for the blossoms and shimmering light of Hawkes Bay where they eventually met and formed Golden Curtain, who've released… Audio

In this Spectrum programme, recorded in 1996, Alistair McAlpine joins Joan Wiffen on a fossil hunting trip in her favourite Hawke's Bay stream. Audio

A tribute to Joan Wiffen, a self-taught palaeontologist who discovered New Zealand's first dinosaur bone in a Hawke's Bay streambed in the 1970s. Audio

A tribute to Joan Wiffen, a self-taught palaeontologist who discovered New Zealand's first dinosaur bone in a Hawke's Bay streambed in the 1970s. Audio

Phil King is a 70 year old central Hawkes Bay farmer. He's been a champion ram breeder and fat lamb produce, President of the Royal Agricultural Society of NZ and organiser of the AC Cameron Award… Audio

Sally Wenley loves duck hunting, she's been hunting since she was a child, raised on a Hawkes Bay farm. Duck Liver Pate, Roasted Stuffed Duck, Lemon Meringue Pie. Audio

The Eastern Institute of Technology, Work and Income and local iwi have teamed up with an Hawkes Bay orchardist, John Bostock, to set up a training programme that's helped some locals get off the… Audio