Wellington Region

The Wellington City Council is refusing to kowtow to demands from film-makers Sir Peter Jackson and Dame Fran Walsh over the contentious Shelly Bay development.

In this episode of Voices; the hosts of the podcast series Conversations with my Immigrant Parents turn their mics on their own mums. Produced by Saraid De Silva Cameron and Julie Zhu.

Traffic heading out of Wellington city is heavy due to this morning's mobile crane crash on State Highway 2.

Homeowners near Wellington are reporting their local council losing the paperwork for their houses - and say it's costing them thousands. Video

Wellington's leafy suburb of Miramar has been dubbed a "burglar's paradise", after a spate of break-ins and assaults that have left residents scared and wondering what police are doing about it.

Wellington councillors have voted to expand the mayor's proposed taskforce on the city's water problems, to include business and community members and water experts.

The deadline to finish the massive Transmission Gully motorway project is now 1 November or the builder could be fined $16,000 a day.

Wellingtonians living above major sewerage works are fed up with the late night noise and what they say are broken promises to sort it out.

The National War Memorial in Wellington has been closed indefinitely after engineers found it to be earthquake prone.

Filmmakers Sir Peter Jackson and Dame Fran Walsh have threatened high court action over decisions about the contentious Shelly Bay development in Wellington.

"Hentertainment" is a way of keeping hens laying - and happy - at Henergy, an egg business on the outskirts of Masterton. Henergy founder Graeme Napier was the first egg producer to get the SPCA blue…

Mana whenua are being stretched to capacity to help solve the capital's water crisis, a Taranaki whānui representative has said.

An ordnance disposal team is at an Upper Hutt landfill after a grenade was found.

A new taskforce on Wellington water issues will examine the state of affairs that has led to the crisis in the capital, as well as come up with an action plan to be put to council.

Despite an urgent meeting about Wellington's ageing and leaking sewerage system it is still not clear when the problems are going to be fixed.