Charlotte Cook

Wellington City councillors voted to sell and lease land for a controversial seaside housing development.

Inmates from New Zealand's biggest women's jail say they spent a week handwashing their clothes, but the prison says the claims are not correct.

Three teenage girls are lucky to be alive after being caught in a rip at a Wellington beach and they have an off-duty junior lifeguard to thank.

The Electoral Commission has come under fire after a string of mistakes in the first week of advance voting.

Thousands of DHB office workers expecting a pay equity settlement are upset they're made to wait until after the election, their union says.

Staff at Wellington Hospital's mental health ward say the unit is at crisis point and they are scared, distressed and feel unsafe at work.

A man who tested positive for Covid-19 nearly a week after leaving managed isolation may have had an unusually long incubation of the virus. Audio

Two former Dilworth students have spoken out about their grief and anger over sexual abuse at the school and say the police investigation has come too late.

A former student from Dilworth School claims abuse was rife and the school turned a blind eye.

The Corrections Association says the police have been investigating possible corruption at Rimutaka Prison for the past eight weeks.

In the last fortnight, 26 people have tested positive after returning from India, largely off just two flights.

A union is taking legal action against a community health company saying it has failed to give staff their entitled breaks and correct pay for more than a year.

Violence against prison guards appears to be getting worse with 355 reported assaults resulting in injury in the last 12 months to May.

Wellington's famous cat, Mittens, is facing some Covid-19 restrictions of his own, following multiple attempts to enter an isolation hotel.

The NZTA says it has learnt lessons with $1.25 billion of taxpayers money used to build Wellington highway Transmission Gully as the government orders the project be reviewed.

A special type of blood test could give vital clues as to how an isolation hotel maintenance worker got Covid-19 from a woman he had never met. Audio

Nasty rumours, inaccurate advice and bullying has circulated through social media following the second wave of infections.

Mask manufacturers are receiving massive orders after the government says people will be encouraged to wear them if the country returns to alert level 2. Audio

To the surprise of economists, the number of unemployed people fell during the lockdown and with working hours slashed, underutilisation jumped significantly. Video, Audio

Official data will reveal how badly the Covid-19 lockdown cut job numbers, with economists saying the wage subsidy programme will have cushioned the worst of the rise.

An Auckland woman says rats in her state house chewed through water pipes for more than a week and caused so much damage the ceiling collapsed.

Any officer who comes in to contact with a prisoners bodily fluids must undergo a year of testing for infections.

The city council says there's no longer a reason to push on with the $2 million project now that life is back to normal.

While Covid-19 slowed the country to a standstill, one rehab centre continued to be as busy as ever.

Dozens of Covid-19 community based testing centres around the country are closing down.