Stories by Bill Hickman

The move will ensure permanent place for Māori voices to be 'heard, embedded and carried forward' in decision-making, the council says.

The Restaurant Association is looking forward to the National-led government scrapping fair pay legislation and reinstating 90-day trials, but Unite Union sees the potential move as dismal.

Restaurateurs are saying scrapping fair pay legislation should be among the top priorities of the new government.

Iona Pannett's comments come after a Wellington heritage building was gutted by fire after more than 20 years of wrangling over the owner's earthquake strengthening responsibilities.

The owner of a central Wellington store says a fire may have broken the stalemate that saw a nearby heritage protected building gradually swamped by tagging, temporary earthquake protection and vines.

Five police officers have received awards for putting their lives on the line to save others in Hastings during Cyclone Gabrielle.

Police Minister Ginny Andersen says it is unacceptable officers are expected to attend mental health callouts - turning up "simply because no-one else will".

Lawyers representing the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care have argued Jehovah's Witness Elders exercised a level of control over the congregation that allowed them access to children.

The church said it was beyond the scope of the inquiry as it did not take children, young persons or vulnerable adults into care.

New Zealand Jehovah's Witnesses are going to court in an attempt to have the church made exempt from the Abuse in Care inquiry.

The costs of strengthening and redeveloping Wellington Town Hall could nearly double as Wellington City Council announced a massive budget blow-out on the project.

Police preparing to supervise protests planned for Wellington central this week are asking bystanders to film it if any law breaking takes place, and to submit the images.

Watch: A police officer has been caught on camera breathalysing the passenger of a left-hand drive car before waving them through a checkpoint this weekend.

An external review of Oranga Tamariki secure residences was begun in June after six staff were stood down over allegations of serious misconduct.

A city councillor has called the bike lobby "greedy" as a proposal to link Wellington's popular cycleway network along the waterfront quays threatens to divide the capital's transport factions…

A lack of staffing and beds is overflowing into emergency departments with dangerous consequences, a new report says. Audio

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

Getting things wrong at the start of a mental health crisis makes everything worse for patients, mental health workers and emergency services staff, an expert says.

Wellington songwriter Darren Watson is taking aim at Parliament again with a new song released just in time for the upcoming election.

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.

The majority of notices issued were for selling vapes to people under the age of 18.

A Wellington District Court Judge has upheld an appeal of the Medical Council's suspension of a GP over conduct relating to Covid-19.

A new two-way cycle lane connecting Wellington's Basin Reserve to Waitangi Park on the waterfront has opened access between the city and southern suburbs.

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