Wellington Region

Wellington Hospital staff are worried a new parking plan will endanger the safety of shift workers and see patients unfairly fined.

Two climate protesters are due to appear in court after causing traffic disruption on the motorway this morning.

South Wairarapa District Council is having conversations about establishing a Māori ward in the district.

Sixty-five attacks on people, 78 on animals and 697 uncontrolled dogs were reported in the capital - but the problem might be nationwide.

Two out of three Wairarapa councils are progressing merger discussions, with one council sitting it out for now.

An Indian street food-inspired burger has taken out first prize at the Burger Wellington awards.

Climate protesters blocking the southbound lane of Wellington's urban motorway are lucky to have escaped without injury this morning.

Parts of patients' skulls were dropped mid-operation in separate incidents at the same hospital over the past five years.

Wellingtonians will be "largely pleased" about the scrapping of a controversial $500 million development at Shelly Bay, a councillor says.

The noisy and riotous Aro Valley debate has returned this election with no restrictions on numbers, but without one of its traditions.

Wellington's weather has come under fire, with a popular suggestion that spring in the capital is so cruddy it should be renamed, but researchers say the data does not support a change.

Police say they have seized cash, methamphetamine, cars, and guns in a crackdown on organised crime in Wellington, Porirua and Palmerston North.

A man's body was found in a park in Brooklyn on Thursday afternoon.

Climate protesters caused traffic disruption in central Wellington, with a banner unfurled across the urban motorway and a protester harnessed to the gantry.

Hutt City Council has scrapped six proposed heritage areas and unanimously agreed with an independent panel's recommendations that higher density housing should go ahead.

A new multi-million dollar recording facility is set to make Wellington's Town Hall the centre piece of the country's film industry and classical music scene.

A police spokesperson said they had spent thousands of hours trying to find her.

Wellington traffic could be disrupted by protests planned for Monday and during the next few weeks, police are warning.

The Melling train line will close from the middle of next year so infrastructure for the $700 million RiverLink scheme can be built.

Speed limits on expressways north of Wellington could be set to increase, but Transmission Gully will have to wait a bit longer.