Nelson Region

We're lingering a while in the top of the South Island for the latest in our regional profiles. Alison Hossain is Radio New Zealand's Nelson reporter and she and Lynn Freeman spoke to Nelson Mail… Audio

Nelson is fast carving itself out a reputation as the craft brewing capital of New Zealand, vying for the title with its neighbour across Cook Strait, Wellington. Audio

We're in the Suter Gallery in Nelson, where director, Julie Catchpole, who is right in the middle of supervising renovations of the gallery. Audio

A controversial highway linking Nelson city to its port, which has been under discussion for more than half a century, is now back on the cards. Audio

A Nelson financial advisor, who swindled more than half a million dollars out of his mainly elderly clients has been jailed for six years and nine months after a four year legal battle. Audio

A Nelson investment advisor has been jailed for six years and nine months for stealing more than half a million dollars from his clients, many of whom were retirees entrusting him with their life… Audio

Adrienne Baigent from Nelson nominates Catch A Falling Star by Perry Como. Audio

A Nelson vagrant has been sent to prison for refusing to do community work imposed after he balked at paying more than fifty-thousand dollars in parking fines for his horse and cart. Audio

A Nelson butcher who has survived an earthquake, a flood and a fire, has been hit by another disaster. Audio

A Nelson man who owes tens of thousands of dollars in parking fines has had a win in his long fight to carry on parking his horse and cart in the central city. Audio

New Zealand landscape photographer who draws from his work of the last thirty years, much previously unpublished, for the new book, Spirit of the South, a photographic tribute to the mainland. Audio

Hailing from Nelson, the three piece electronica act started 15 years ago as a covers band, but when they added a drum machine to the mix, drummer Ruth Carr was moved to the front of the stage as the… Audio

British pianist currently touring New Zealand with violinist Tamsin Waley Cohen and cellist Bartholomew la Follette and judging the ROSL competition. Audio

A coroner has recommended Westpac rescue helicopters carry crotch straps after a drunken sailor fell from a harness 3 to 5 metres back into the sea. Audio

All services will end to Whakatane, Kaitaia and Westport in April, and flights to Taupo, Palmerston North, Nelson, Hamilton and Whangarei will be pared back. Audio

A low-sugar lemonade, made entirely from local ingredients, is catapulting a Nelson couple onto the foodie scene. Audio

The pleasures and pitfalls of a low vision lifestyle: You'll seldom see a cane in Mike Steven's hand but he has just one eighth of the vision most people enjoy. Mike is one of almost 170 thousand New… Audio

Minuit are one of NZs best known electronica bands having filled dancefloors around NZ since the late 90s. The trio of Ruth Carr, Paul Dodge and Ryan Beehre have decided after 15 years to call it a… Audio

Helicopter pilot (like his father, and son) who tells his story of deer recovery, mountain rescue, fire-fighting, heli-fishing, and movie work in the book Born to Fly. Audio

New Zealand's expert in all things Middle Earth, Ian Brodie, has written and illustrated The Hobbit location guidebook, which includes the Pelorus River site in Marlborough and several sites in the… Audio