Wellington Region

Wellington City Council is testifying at the inquest into the death of Sandy Calkin, who drowned after being last seen walking on Queens Wharf in July 2021.

The iReX Project was initially estimated to cost $775m when KiwiRail submitted its business case in 2018.

The vehicle crashed a short time later in Otaki and the man was taken into custody.

The shallow quake hit the fault-riddled Cook Strait, GNS science says.

Wellington City Council's response to deaths and incidents on the capital's waterfront promenade has come under fire ahead of a coroner's inquest into the death of Sandy Calkin.

A budding photographer and stargazer gave up on sleep in favour of a stunning Aurora Australis. Audio

More than 200 people have gathered outside Parliament in support of Ngāpuhi opposition to the repeal of Section 7AA of the Oranga Tamariki Act.

It wanted the cameras to calculate travels times to determine if the private operators of the Transmission Gully motorway were meeting performance standards.

Nearly 200 people dived in frigid 9C Wellington water to raise money Saturday morning.

The 26-year-old has been charged with impersonating a police officer to take advantage of people.

Thomas Mackay Taniwha was found to be running "high turnover" poker games both in person and on online gambling platforms.

Defence for the lead defendant in the Karori murder trial says his client did not shoot Rau Tongia and that the science supports that.

Businesses are concerned the cycleway being built will end up being ripped up due to an ageing pipe network underneath.

Life-saving minutes are being lost because the new bumps slow emergency vehicle response times, a Wellington councillor says. Audio

Even a swim school is feeling the impact of government cuts.

A lockdown at Onslow College in Wellington was sparked by a motorcyclist who had a water pistol that was mistaken for a firearm, police say.

A person has died after being struck by a moving car in a Lower Hutt garage on Sunday night.

Raised in an analogue world, Generation X were the first youth to have scientific calculators, video players, video games, CDs and finally computers. So what does the art they've made tell us? Audio

It wasn't just the mayor, either - other council leaders aired their problems with its deep-seated cultural issues. Audio

A defendant in the Karori murder trial says she did not supply the gun which killed Rau Tongia.