Wellington Region

After years of delays a plan to transform the Michael Fowler Centre car park in Wellington's centre city into a multi-level green building could get city council signoff this week.

A person has been seriously injured after a car went off the road and flipped on the Remutaka Hill road between Upper Hutt and Wairarapa.

A report to the Wellington City Council shows the city needs to reduce more carbon than previously anticipated by the end of this decade.

Police have reopened Lambton Quay in central Wellington and hundreds of people are returning to buildings on both sides of the road.

The Department of Conservation was told by overseas experts it should euthanise orca calf Toa just days after it became stranded on the rocks in Plimmerton.

Hopeful first-home buyers had their applications for a new housing development decided by ping pong balls inside of a vase.

Level 3 restrictions and supply chain problems mean a new opening date will need to be set for the $1.2 billion Transmission Gully project, Waka Kotahi says.

After a slower start Wellington's vaccination rollout has leaped ahead in recent weeks.

Two large cycleways, connecting Wellington city to the hospital and botanic gardens, are to be accelerated for construction if the city council approves wider plans next week.

It's a decidedly mixed bag for Wellington's inner-city businesses getting used to the new normal of Delta level 2.

Police can't confirm whether or not an experienced tramper stuck in the Tararua Forest park north of Wellington has made it to a hut.

The police have confirmed the suspicious parcel which caused alarm at the Beehive this morning was carrying an "innocuous mineral substance."

It's been two years since Country Life started following Te Hera vineyard's John Douglas through a vintage. 2020 turned out to be an interesting one, with harvest occurring during the pandemic…

The Wellington City Council says the area has seen an increase in pedestrians and cyclists exercising along the coastline since the beginning of lockdown.

One person has died in a crash on Shelly Bay Road in the Wellington suburb of Maupuia.

The playground slide in Frank Kitts Park on Wellington's waterfront is to be removed tomorrow for safety reasons.

Andrew Dalziel has been out in the dead of night during lockdown recording native birds in Wellington's Polhill Reserve. Audio

Wellington City councillors today received an update on the 'Pōneke Promise', detailing steps to make the CBD safer, including more information on moving a problematic toilet block in Te Aro Park.

Wellington's Covid-19 cases are being allowed to exercise in an underground car park, prompting concern that MIQ workers are being put at unnecessary risk.