Nelson Region

The Nelson City Council will decide tomorrow whether to spend millions of dollars to earthquake-proof its main civic venue, the Trafalgar Centre. Audio

Several hundred people gathered at Nelson's waterfront yesterday for the annual blessing of the city's fishing fleet. Audio

The Nelson City Council has been told it will have to spend up to 13-million dollars to save its main civic building. Audio

The only road serving a community north-east of Nelson has been reopened, three and a half years after being wrecked in a storm. Audio

The slump in dairy prices is forcing one Nelson farming family to find new ways to make their farm pay after 171 years on the land. Audio

Noelle McCarthy reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 4 July 2015. Audio

Word is spreading about a Nelson made peanut butter, which is targeting markets in the home of the sandwich spread - the United States. Audio

Italian icon, world famous in New Zealand, Stefano Bonazza shares a few of his culinary secrets. Audio

Karen Price and Karen Stade's book Pasta, Prayer and Promise, the story of Nelson's Italian Community 1860-2014 explores the history and the people of 'The Wood'. They describe countless hours… Audio

The Hop Lab in Motueka is a small research brewery, where a Plant and Food Research scientists are breeding, growing and testing new varieties of hops Audio

The High Court has thrown out drug charges against Nelson's Red Devils bikies, ruling that to carry on would suggest the courts are condoning dodgy police work. Audio

Back now to this week's budget and the South Island's priorities. Audio

Both a surgeon and the Nelson Marlborough District Health Board are in the gun over a man who bled to death during what was meant to be routine gall bladder surgery Audio

This week on One in Five: staff describe it a magic place. We visit Nelson's Salisbury School, a residential special education facility for girls with intellectual and behavioural difficulties. Three… Audio

Son of WW1 sapper Bertram Martin, one of the New Zealand Tunnellers. Audio

For the son of a Gallipoli veteran in Nelson, this year's anniversary holds extra poignancy. Audio

This week on One in Five: Treating by touch - a profile of Motueka physiotherapist, Richard Hayward who also happens to be blind. Trained in London, Richard came to New Zealand thirty years ago via a… Audio

Department of Conservation rangers have stumbled across what was thought to be an extinct native plant. Audio