Wellington Region

Three climate protesters have been arrested after the shop window of a car dealer in Wellington was vandalised.

The mayor is blaming it on decades of underinvestment. Audio

Doctors are grappling with mistrust around information entered into the IT systems at Hawke's Bay hospital, including what it tells them about patients and critical scan results.

A new traffic monitoring network which will count and collect data on modes of transport is being rolled out by Wellington City Council.

An annual festival held in a small Wairarapa town is going ahead without one of its main attractions.

A planned charity hospital in the Wellington region will aim to provide free medical services for those who need it.

Wellington Hospital staff are worried a new parking plan will endanger the safety of shift workers and see patients unfairly fined.

Two climate protesters are due to appear in court after causing traffic disruption on the motorway this morning.

South Wairarapa District Council is having conversations about establishing a Māori ward in the district.

Sixty-five attacks on people, 78 on animals and 697 uncontrolled dogs were reported in the capital - but the problem might be nationwide.

Two out of three Wairarapa councils are progressing merger discussions, with one council sitting it out for now.

An Indian street food-inspired burger has taken out first prize at the Burger Wellington awards.

Climate protesters blocking the southbound lane of Wellington's urban motorway are lucky to have escaped without injury this morning.

Parts of patients' skulls were dropped mid-operation in separate incidents at the same hospital over the past five years.

Wellingtonians will be "largely pleased" about the scrapping of a controversial $500 million development at Shelly Bay, a councillor says.

The noisy and riotous Aro Valley debate has returned this election with no restrictions on numbers, but without one of its traditions.

Wellington's weather has come under fire, with a popular suggestion that spring in the capital is so cruddy it should be renamed, but researchers say the data does not support a change.

Police say they have seized cash, methamphetamine, cars, and guns in a crackdown on organised crime in Wellington, Porirua and Palmerston North.

A man's body was found in a park in Brooklyn on Thursday afternoon.

Climate protesters caused traffic disruption in central Wellington, with a banner unfurled across the urban motorway and a protester harnessed to the gantry.