Wellington Region

FENZ is also planning to bring water tankers into the region if Wellington moves to level four restrictions.

The Greater Wellington Regional Council's chairperson says the four councils have made "quite a shift" in their attitude to the meters.

The pipe supplying the only source of drinking water to the town remains at high risk of failure and an urgent solution is needed, experts say.

A judge was forced to leave the courtroom and a defence lawyer told court security to "arrest them all'.

The changes are mainly to do with committee structures and have been brought about by the departure of new Green MP Tamatha Paul.

Members of the public found the body while hunting in dense bush in the Ōtaki Gorge area, police say.

The police are focusing on three people who were at the house at the time of the toddler's injuries.

A leak in the Wellington suburb of Miramar has been spurting good drinking water into a drain at the rate of a litre per second for almost a month. Audio

Whitireia Park, where the human remains were found, remain open to the public.

Police officers investigating the violent death of an elderly Wellington woman, nearly two weeks ago, are focusing on a key five-hour period on the night she died.

The Department of Conservation has not had any input into reports on Transmission Gully motorway's environmental impacts or what to do about them.

Wellington City Council staff will look at what may fix broken storm water pipes leaking leachate from a closed landfill into Houghton Bay.

Communities around Wellington will be out celebrating Waitangi Day from this weekend.

Several flights out of Wellington have been cancelled, delayed or diverted because of high winds.

Police investigating the violent death of a Wellington grandmother last week say they are following "strong lines of enquiry".

Human remains discovered near the Whitireia Park walkway in Tītahi Bay have been extricated and a forensic postmortem will take place in the coming days.

Some enterprising Wellingtonians living with long-running leaks are re-routing them to water their gardens.

Police say there have been no significant issues from a funeral which involved large numbers of Mongrel Mob members in Porirua.