Wellington Region

A court has been told a Wellington musician on trial for sexual assault offences raped a number of women who were asleep or drunk, but he denies all charges.

The SPCA has recovered 13 pigs left in very poor conditions in a property in the Wellington region.

A group of rail advocates who hung a banner from traffic signs across Wellington's Urban Motorway near Bowen Street, closing it to traffic have now removed it.

Unsuccessful Wellington mayoral candidate Paul Eagle says his centrist campaign foundered because votes split along party lines, while the outgoing mayor leaves after 30 years at the council table.

Tory Whanau says it is "pretty wild" to have been voted in as the new mayor of Wellington.

A man missing after leaving for a five-day tramp has been rescued after making a help sign out of toilet paper.

A major commuter tunnel in Wellington which had been closed in both directions after a multi-car smash is back open.

Commuters faced delays as large slips came down on two arterial routes out of the Wellington suburb of Karori.

A Kāpiti Coast shop owner whose store was ram-raided early today says he has spent months trying to get permission to install protective barriers.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she was happy to support the World of Wearable Arts event by modelling a garment at last night's awards show in Wellington.

Emergency services are working on a truck fire on Transmission Gully motorway, north of Wellington, and all but one lane is closed.

Three men charged after a Pōneke rugby player was bashed have all either been discharged without conviction or had their charges dismissed.

Wellington's new electric ferry appears to have lost power in the middle of a trip, resulting in a police boat having to take its passengers back to shore.

After 15 years of serving the Masterton District, Mayor Lyn Patterson is farewelling her role as an elected member.

Wellington Water says new facilities at the Te Marua and Gear Island Water Treatment Plants are now reliably fluoridating drinking water.

Police are appealing for sightings of two vehicles in relation to their investigation of an assault in Masterton on Monday.

Police are seeking information about a stabbing that took place on Courtney Place in Wellington in the early hours of Sunday morning.

The person who died in a fatal crash was using a walking frame, not a mobility scooter as first announced by police.

Wellington's new children's hospital will open next month without having any extra clinical services on hand for patients.

A penguin conservationist in Akaroa says people concerned about little blue penguins in Wellington need to take action themselves.