Wellington Region

Frustrated residents have started a petition calling on the Porirua City Council to stop vehicles meeting and blasting music and emergency sirens at all hours of the night.

In a bid to offset a multimillion-dollar blowout to redevelop Wellington's Town Hall, the council is considering doing it at the same time as a neighbouring building.

The woman, found dead in her Wellington home on Monday, has been named as Irene Katsougiannis.

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.

Wellington police continue to investigate the death of a woman whose body was found at her Miramar home on Monday.

Wairarapa Green Party candidate Celia Wade-Brown is still hoping to be part of the Green wave of MPs.

Police say they are following positive lines of inquiry in a homicide investigation in the Wellington suburb of Miramar.

Health officials offered to pay big tech firms thousands of dollars to run tests on dire hospital IT systems in the Wellington region.

A person has died in a crash in Manawatū, while State Highway 2 in Upper Hutt has reopened and State Highway 1 in Marlborough is blocked following crashes.

The first of three sections of the Te Ara Tupua cycleway which will link up Wellington and Lower Hutt has had its official opening ceremony.

Police have launched a homicide investigation after a death of a woman in the Wellington suburb of Miramar.

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.

A person has been found dead at a residential property in the Wellington suburb of Miramar, police say.

Kieran McAnulty looks set to remain in Parliament as a list MP but has been unseated from his position in the Wairarapa electorate MP by National's Mike Butterick.

Wellington mayor Tory Whanau has sent official warnings to five councillors for breaching confidentiality over their public comments on the city's financial woes.

A judge is deciding whether the man charged with murder and arson over the Loafer's Lodge fire in Wellington should continue to have name suppression.

Two men who entered a Wellington primary school and took videos of children six weeks ago still haven't been caught.

Officers face a wall of silence as they appeal for new information regarding the death of Craig McKelvie.

Power has been restored to 7377 properties in Porirua following an earlier outage.

Some Wellington City Council services may be scrapped in the next stage of its long-term plan as it faces tough financial times, a councillor says.