Wellington

The Greens have had a change of heart about standing a candidate in the Ōhāriu electorate.

Wellington's renters are keen on a new voluntary rental Warrant of Fitness scheme, saying it is a good start but it needs to be compulsory.

The final person to be sentenced over a pokie machine fraud in the Nelson region has escaped a jail term and will instead serve 12 months' home detention.

Police in Wellington have removed a body from a carpark opposite a busy central city supermarket.

The deployment of a new high-tech buoy in Wellington means scientists will no longer have to wait for good weather to check water quality.

The government will build 145 new social housing units in Wellington by the end of next year, the Social Housing Minister says.

A taskforce set up to deal with the city's impending housing crisis has recommended converting office blocks and increasing suburban density. Audio

Māori activist and playwright Bruce Stewart, who founded Wellington's Tapu Te Ranga Marae, has died aged 80.

Children from several schools created their own placards and protested outside Parliament today demanding the government ban plastic bags.

Residents living in the Wellington suburb of Thorndon should brace themselves for four years of dust and disruption.

Approval has been granted for demolition of the quake-hit former Defence Force head office in central Wellington.

Two men accused of running a meth ring supplying the central and lower North Island have been found guilty of all the charges they were facing.

Some residents are worried a proposed water reservoir could fail in a big earthquake, causing a potentially deadly landslide. Video

Two men accused of running a methamphetamine ring spoke to each other about cars, chainsaws and tyres, in coded references to the drug, a jury has been told.