Wellington Region

A highly experienced engineer says many in the industry cannot understand how cost estimates to repair Wellington's shuttered city library could be more than rebuilding it.

A woman has died after she was hit a train at a level crossing in Tawa in Wellington.

It's been 10 weeks since Transmission Gully was put on hold and there's still no date for work to resume.

The trucks hauling human waste around Wellington's south coast to a landfill will finally stop now a sewer pipe has been repaired.

Wellington's mayor has awarded the Key to the City to a celebrity inner city cat.

Buses are replacing most trains services on all Wellington lines this weekend while track maintenance and upgrade work is done.

Hundreds of bales of donated hay, emblazoned with smiley faces and messages like "kia kaha", are heading to Hawkes Bay this weekend as part of the Rapa Feed Run. Organisers Sophie and Daniel Hansen…

Covid-19 will blow the budget again on Wellington's billion dollar road project Transmission Gully, but who will pay the extra is unclear.

Police are asking the public to help identify a body found in the water at Evans Bay in Wellington today.

Wellington's turd taxis may be off the city's streets in two weeks, as progress on repairs to a collapsed pipe have surged ahead.

Police have arrested a 29-year-old man who escaped custody yesterday evening.

Police are searching for a 29-year-old man who tonight escaped custody while being taken to hospital from Rimutaka Prison.

Forget group video calls, a group of older people in the Hutt Valley is staying connected through the Covid-19 lockdown with regular catch-ups on the telephone.

Wellington's water contractor suggested the Wellington City Council might like to relax some of the performance targets for its pipe network if it wanted the contractor to start meeting them.

Dayanne Almeida is a self-professed 'sheep nutter'. Since Country Life met Dayanne three years ago she has bought her own flock and has become entranced by deer.