A public art installation that allows children, and adults for that matter, to use the sun and turn lots of wheels to create rainbows, won a team of three young architects a coveted Purple Pin from Design Institute New Zealand (DINZ) .

Debbie Mair has spent the past two years monitoring the several creeks that run through the fast growing centre of Whitby, north of Wellington.

Friends Mark Warren and Nathan Addis have set up a Facebook page calling for New Zealanders to show the Anzac spirit and offer a place to stay for those affected by the Australian bushfires.

Kiwi Vicki Farslow has made several trips to Nepal to work with local people on practical projects, like ensuring water supplies for remote villages.

Ariana Tikao is a musician who's an integral part of the revitalisation of traditional Maori instruments, and is one of the curators of the Pukana exhibition - which is on at the National Library in Wellington. She demonstrates the instruments in the exhibition space at the library.

Our summer series on lifesavers continues - in this episode we learn about cave rescues, which is highly specialised and involves a huge amount of training.

Kerranne Evans tells Lynn about the joys of working on New Zealand's longest running TV show Country Calendar.

Melbourne based journalist Rebekah Holt with the latest.

Historian Rory Sweetman has uncovered a connection between New Zealand soldiers and the Easter Week Irish Rising, an incident that he says threatened Ireland's oldest university, Trinity College Dublin.

Archaelogical investigations of Pa sites on Waikato wetlands are about to start, using Maori traditional knowledge of the area and the latest Western technology to establish when and how the settlements were built.