Wellington Region

A man just managed to avoid going down with a ship that sank in Wellington Harbour overnight, the harbourmaster says.

Six major slips across different locations have resulted in road closures and home evacuations in Wellington. Audio

Residents from The Terrace in Wellington have been moved to hotels for the night while a major slip is being cleaned up.

It has cost the nation's roading agency nearly $250,000 to prove that LED billboards next to one of the country's most dangerous highways are not a good idea.

Te Waka Whaiora is a mental health and addiction service that works the streets of Porirua, building relationships and resilience with whānau in a by-Māori, for Māori way.

Wellington City Council is poised to move its entire social housing portfolio into a new community housing charity.

Candidate Tory Whanau will not be taking the posters, despite criticising a fellow candidate over early election advertising.

Wellington cyclists claim they are taking their lives in their own hands riding around the Botanic Gardens - but there are fears a cycleway will be terrible for business and residents.

Wellington Hospital faces spending an extra $2 million outsourcing scanning while it upgrades its radiology equipment.

Wellington Hospital needs to spend $5.4 million on construction to fit in its new scanning equipment.

A large slip on one of the main routes into Wellington's CBD is disrupting traffic.

Two people are in hospital in critical condition after separate early-morning assaults in Wellington and Christchurch today.

The victim, who was stabbed in the leg, was given "lifesaving" emergency first aid by a passer-by, police say.

Two men have been arrested in relation to a spate of burglaries and thefts from residential construction sites in Lower Hutt.

Wellington residents are hearing more birdsong as data reveals native birds have increased by 51 percent. Audio

Police say they are looking at a number of prosecutions after about 1000 anti-government protesters marched onto the busy Auckland Southern Motorway today.

The week's wild weather has left a wake of travel disruptions and damage, with many roads still affected, and two Wellington homes red stickered this morning.

A bank in Paraparaumu was held up near closing time on Friday by a robber police believe was wielding a gun.

Wellington Airport and airlines affected by the wild weather say with fewer staff and planes, transferring passengers onto other flights is more difficult than ever. Audio

All flights in and out of Wellington have been cancelled until further notice due to the bad weather, with today's ferry sailings also cancelled.