Wellington Region

The Wellington Mayor's main rival in the upcoming local elections, Andy Foster, won't say how much Sir Peter Jackson has stumped up in a bid to get him elected. Video

An Australian study has found that nearly 90 percent of children are worried about climate change. In New Zealand, kids have similar concerns - but they're doing something about it.

A kitten has been saved just in time, after being found on a recycling belt at a Wellington refuse station.

Te Papa told the government it risked losing relevance as a national museum when it asked it for money to help move into South Auckland.

Hutt Valley's Medical Officer of Health says treatment records show bad plumbing at a retirement complex had nothing to do with the death of a woman who lived there.

An anti-litter group is combining new technology with old-fashioned grit to clean up piles of rubbish in Hutt Valley.

Horowhenua locals are still in limbo nearly a decade on from promises of an expressway to replace a dangerous stretch of State Highway 1 north of Wellington.

Wellingtonians can expect more city landmarks to get Māori names, despite resistance from one city councillor over a new name for Wellington Botanic Garden.

Orange Day Parade celebrates New Zealand's school road patrols - we're one of only a few countries that give children the power to halt traffic.

Emails show Lower Hutt Mayor Ray Wallace was told in February that bad plumbing in 96 apartments - worth up to $700,000 each - in a retirement complex was life-threatening.

A city councillor has questioned if the gifting of a Māori name to Wellington's Botanic Garden area is 'unreasonable use' of te reo.

Hinematererangi Mackey-Pasene has grown up in Māori spaces her entire life, but now, she's having to adjust to life among the "minority" at university

A young Muslim candidate in the Porirua local body elections fears vandals who have burned, knocked down and stolen her billboards appear to be singling her out.

Leaked emails show Weta Digital staff in Wellington expressed concern about being asked to go and support the campaign launch of a mayoral candidate financially backed by Sir Peter Jackson.

Thousands of people have gathered in Wellington for the first of six parades to celebrate te wiki o te reo Māori - the biggest turnout since they started.

A Hutt City Council candidate says racist, sexist and anti-Semitic slogans and swastikas have been scrawled on her billboards, and she was confronted by a man when she went to fix them.

Te Papa's museum's chief executive Geraint Martin is stepping down at the end of the year.