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Kāinga Ora faces legal action over refusal to fast-track housing development
The state housing provider is being taken to court by private developer Winton Land after refusing to fast-track a huge Auckland housing development. Audio
Wellingtonians breathe easier as electric bus fleet expands
An increase in electric buses has led to better air quality in Wellington's central city.
Wellington is New Zealand's most walkable city, study says
A University of Canterbury paper titled "The x-minute city" found that in Wellington, 35 percent of residents lived within a 10-minute walk of all amenities.
Woman wakes to find accused man in bed with her, court told
The fourth of six women to testify in the rape trial of a Wellington man says she felt confused when she awoke to find not the person she had gone to bed with, but his friend.
Bravery awards for officers who confronted knife-wielding attacker
Two police officers who faced a knife-wielding attacker in a Dunedin supermarket last year have been awarded for bravery.
'Like legislating discrimination against young Māori'
Chris Hipkins is not ruling out a law change to support police in continuing to take photographs and fingerprints from young people - and he's told police he'll support them challenging a report…
Protest sign hung across SH1 disrupting Wellington traffic removed
A group of rail advocates who hung a banner from traffic signs across Wellington's Urban Motorway near Bowen Street, closing it to traffic have now removed it.
