Wellington Region

An anti-litter group is combining new technology with old-fashioned grit to clean up piles of rubbish in Hutt Valley.

Horowhenua locals are still in limbo nearly a decade on from promises of an expressway to replace a dangerous stretch of State Highway 1 north of Wellington.

Wellingtonians can expect more city landmarks to get Māori names, despite resistance from one city councillor over a new name for Wellington Botanic Garden.

A century ago the Booth family set aside a paddock at their farm Middlerun for daffodils to raise money for charity and the fundraiser is still going strong.

Orange Day Parade celebrates New Zealand's school road patrols - we're one of only a few countries that give children the power to halt traffic.

Emails show Lower Hutt Mayor Ray Wallace was told in February that bad plumbing in 96 apartments - worth up to $700,000 each - in a retirement complex was life-threatening.

A city councillor has questioned if the gifting of a Māori name to Wellington's Botanic Garden area is 'unreasonable use' of te reo.

Hinematererangi Mackey-Pasene has grown up in Māori spaces her entire life, but now, she's having to adjust to life among the "minority" at university

A young Muslim candidate in the Porirua local body elections fears vandals who have burned, knocked down and stolen her billboards appear to be singling her out.

Leaked emails show Weta Digital staff in Wellington expressed concern about being asked to go and support the campaign launch of a mayoral candidate financially backed by Sir Peter Jackson.

Thousands of people have gathered in Wellington for the first of six parades to celebrate te wiki o te reo Māori - the biggest turnout since they started.

A Hutt City Council candidate says racist, sexist and anti-Semitic slogans and swastikas have been scrawled on her billboards, and she was confronted by a man when she went to fix them.

Te Papa's museum's chief executive Geraint Martin is stepping down at the end of the year.

Three people are seriously injured after a crash has closed a lane of State Highway 2 in Upper Hutt.

A group of protesters have been stopped from entering a Parliamentary building, and Beehive security is screening people coming and going.

Wellington renters say they've had enough of exorbitant prices and hunting for properties in an overheated market.

Officers arrived on Upper Hutt's Main Street about 6pm on Wednesday and found a man unconscious on the street. They performed CPR but he died at the scene.