Wellington Region

Three people have been arrested and drugs, firearms, cash and jewellery have been seized in a police raid in the Wellington suburb of Tawa.

The NZTA says it has learnt lessons with $1.25 billion of taxpayers money used to build Wellington highway Transmission Gully as the government orders the project be reviewed.

Rates arrears in Wairarapa are growing, its district councils have revealed, which experts say is a telling sign of financial hardship in the area.

A report by the Māori Land Court has found thousands of iwi members did not get a say in the sale of iwi land at Shelly Bay in Wellington due to failings of the iwi membership system.

Masterton's best chance to help fix the housing crisis has been "squandered" by a recent resource consent decision, a Wairarapa businessman says.

Descendants of the original land owners of the Kāpiti Coast Airport and the local mayor are calling on the government to return it to mana whenua.

Wellington City Council, businesses and the police are working together to stem recent spates of violence in the city's entertainment district.

Police raids on two properties with gang links in the Wellington region have uncovered illegal firearms, including a banned AR-15 semi-automatic assault rifle.

The council has unanimously approved the name, and formally accepted the name Paekākā for the area around the botanical gardens.

Gripp's lawyer Mike Antunovic told the jury in closing statements today Gripp was protecting himself and his younger cousin.

Wellington iwi are hopeful a new housing partnership with the Hutt City Council will get more Māori in the city owning homes.

Restaurants and cafes in Wellington struggling to get back on their feet after the first lockdown say the return to alert level 2 is a familiar but unwelcome move.

A third man has been arrested and charged in relation to the murder of Lois Tolley in Upper Hutt nearly four years ago.

A group of Kāpiti Coast business owners are at odds with the district council over a project that they say could harm rather than improve local business.

There has been an increase in serious violence in Wellington with a number of fights breaking out in the city's entertainment district at night.

Police have arrested nine people for fighting, with one teenager charged with assault. One person was seriously injured from an apparent stabbing.

A prominent local government consultant has said that the lack of community engagement in the Three Waters Review is a potential risk to the initiative.