Wellington Region

Police are appealing for sightings of two vehicles in relation to their investigation of an assault in Masterton on Monday.

Police are seeking information about a stabbing that took place on Courtney Place in Wellington in the early hours of Sunday morning.

The person who died in a fatal crash was using a walking frame, not a mobility scooter as first announced by police.

Wellington's new children's hospital will open next month without having any extra clinical services on hand for patients.

A penguin conservationist in Akaroa says people concerned about little blue penguins in Wellington need to take action themselves.

Wellington mana whenua and the city council have launched a new Māori language app to celebrate and encourage the use of te reo Māori in the capital.

Cheers roared through both parliament and Pipitea Marae in Wellington as the Crown and Ngāti Maniapoto reached settlement.

The capital will be on summer water restrictions from Sunday with limits on when sprinklers and irrigation systems can be used.

A major slip in Wairarapa has closed parts of State Highway 53 between Featherston and Martinborough, while motorists in Hawke's Bay and Tairāwhiti are asked to take extra care due to forecast heavy…

Wellington's mayoral contenders Paul Eagle, Andy Foster and Tory Whanau go head-to-head on issues like housing, state of the city's water and sewage pipes, and public transport.

All works at a development at Shelly Bay in Wellington have been halted after kororā re-entered the site through tampered fencing.

A Victoria University of Wellington lecturer has retracted an emotionally charged email in which he claimed students had "lied" and "cheated" after many failed to watch his queer criminology lecture…

A 76-point plan to tackle climate change has been given the tick by Masterton District Council. But it did not receive unanimous support from elected members.

Part of the fencing installed to keep kororā out has of the Shelly Bay development been tampered with after the developers blocked the area.

Corrections is facing High Court action - to stop inmates from the Arohata women's prison in Wellington being transferred.

Photos have emerged of fences blocking penguins from Shelly Bay - the site developer Ian Cassels bought under the condition he looked after the kororā that nested there.

A new political poll shows Paul Eagle is the frontrunner in the Wellington mayoral race, with Tory Whanau a close second and the incumbent Andy Foster lagging behind.

A headline in the Dominion Post this week claimed there was “a clear favourite” among the candidates for Wellington’s Mayor in a “straw poll” capital’s daily itself had run online. But it acknowledged…