Stories by Laura Dooney

A Wellington man has been under intense scrutiny leading up to a charge of murdering Zena Campbell being dropped, and will now need to rebuild his life, his lawyer says.

A Lower Hutt single mother who needs surgery for a debilitating spinal injury can't get it - because she doesn't have a home to go to afterwards.

Te Papa will spend about $2 million strengthening part of a storage facility in Wellington, after a bid for money to build a new facility for specimens preserved in spirits was declined.

Three hundred new homes could be built on the site of an old prison in Wellington - some of them KiwiBuild affordable homes.

Wellington has been turned into a virtual reality game where players can dive with whales, play drums on Cuba Street, and admire the night sky at Matariki.

The lawyer of a woman ordered to pay a man the court found was likely to have abused her has lashed out at the justice minister for suggesting her client had bad legal advice. Audio

A new resource consent will be lodged for a multi-million dollar development in Wellington's Shelly Bay.

Te Papa is warning the government that a lack of funding for infrastructure may put the public, staff, and its collections at risk.

An independent review into Wellington's troubled bus network has found the team in charge of creating the new network did not have the capability to see the changes through.

Wellington's convention centre has finally been given the green light after years of trying to get the project off the ground.

Wellington City Council has been forced to park a plan to increase the number of electric vehicle charging stations in the city after strong opposition.

More buildings in Wellington are set to be converted into apartments to be rented out by the city council.

A housing crisis in Lower Hutt is being exacerbated by people moving from nearby Wellington in search of cheaper rent.

The preferred location for an indoor arena in Wellington has been found, but it will be months before the land is free to be built on.

Locals opposed to the lengthening of Wellington Airport's runway are asking for an application for resource consent to be thrown out.

The cost to fix one of Wellington's most important venues is likely to be $16 million more than first thought.

Wellington's regional council is paying $150,000 a month to add extra buses to its ailing new network.

Well-loved and historic wharfs in Wellington have been found to be in need of urgent repairs.

Latest property valuations show nine suburbs in Wellington now have an average house price of $1 million.

Te Papa has scaled back a proposed restructure of its collections team to what was first suggested after a backlash.

An international expert says Te Papa museum needs more staff in its collections area, not fewer like a plan to restructure had outlined.

Councils say they are unable to make changes to protect their communities from problem gambling, because of government policy.

Wellington city councillors have unanimously voted to push ahead with a cycleway project in the southern suburbs, which will include a revamp of the Island Bay cycleway.

The revamp costs more than four times what was originally spent on the cycleway and is $4m more than was originally put aside to fix it.