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Detectives in an international drug smuggling case pieced together information from notes and text messages to find a black rubbish bag of cocaine in an Auckland park.

Wellington City Council is considering investing $185 million to reduce the amount of sludge the city produces every day.

Wellington's 'turd taxis' are back in action less than a week after they were stood down.

Engineers from Germany who left their families in the midst of a global pandemic and flew halfway around the world to help fix some broken sewer pipes are being hailed as heroes.

The trucks hauling human waste around Wellington's south coast to a landfill will finally stop now a sewer pipe has been repaired.

Wellington's turd taxis may be off the city's streets in two weeks, as progress on repairs to a collapsed pipe have surged ahead.

Wellington's water contractor suggested the Wellington City Council might like to relax some of the performance targets for its pipe network if it wanted the contractor to start meeting them.

The long-awaited repairs to broken sewer pipes in Wellington are being described as "incredibly technically challenging work" that has never been done before in Australasia.

Wellington City Council has agreed to borrow up to $16 million to fund repairs to the burst sewer pipes within the Mount Albert tunnel.

Freak waves on Wellington's south coast have left a person in hospital and forced residents to evacuate their homes.

The end date for repair works to a damaged water pipe in Wellington has been pushed back due to the Covid-19 coronavirus.

Residents have rejected Wellington Water's claims the smell from a spill at a sludge treatment plant was a one-off, saying the stench is persisting.

Investigations are underway into the cause of problems with Wellington's waterpipes. The city's water infrastructure has been plagued by problems in recent months.

Porirua City Council is set to spend $250,000 for a roving team looking for problems in its ageing water pipes.

A Wellington councillor says the city's water infrastructure is in crisis and needs a fundamental overhaul.

Wellington's Owhiro Bay residents are fed up after more than two decades of human waste making its way into their local stream and bay.

Another broken wastewater pipe in Wellington means trucks are hauling millions litres of sludge every day to landfill in a fix that's expected to cost ratepayers $200,000 each week.

Wellington Water has found a temporary solution to reduce the amount of sewage that is spilling into Wellington harbour.

Wellington Water crews are figuring out the best way to divert waste from a collapsed sewer pipe back into the main line, in an effort to stop it overflowing into the harbour.