Wellington Region

Witnesses say the woman, in her 60s, was struck and carried 15 metres down the road before being thrown off.

A witness says a woman in her 60s was struck by a car while crossing the street and carried about 15m down the road until she was thrown off.

A metal statue of the iconic jedi master was stolen from a Madras Street property in the Wellington suburb of Khandallah on Tuesday night.

A funeral home was set on fire at 10am on Saturday morning and four churches set a light overnight - two other churches were targeted.

The Kapiti Coast District Council posted on Facebook that it needed to clear the pool for hygiene reasons a few too many times.

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We check back in with Hamish Best of red meat retailer Conscious Valley just outside Wellington. A keen ag student the last time he spoke to Country Life, he's now a finalist for the prestigious…

Carterton District Council been unable to implement proposed speed reductions because of a coalition government transport rule.

The closure of a popular walkway on a rail bridge across the Hutt River has been put on hold to allow Hutt City Council time to develop an alternative.

Winstone Aggregates is attempting to acquire a 29 hectare chunk of land in Belmont Regional Park through the Fast-track Approvals Act.

Carterton mayor Ron Mark said eventually "these idiot racers, these clowns, are going to get it wrong and someone is going to get killed".

A man who pleaded guilty to a charge of manslaughter for the death of South African man Luke Smith has been sentenced to two years and three months imprisonment.

Residents near the coastal community of Wellington's Moa Point say they will work to repair a mysterious Moa statue that has fallen from its perch high on a rocky outcrop just beyond the city's…

"If a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is," Retail NZ chief executive Carolyn Young told RNZ.

Every Disney character starts with a drawing and now fans will get to see the beginnings of 100 years of their favourite characters in Wellington. Audio

Emergency services were called to the Terrace Tunnel, which is one of the main entrances into the central city, at 12.55pm.

Rating valuations have been dropping into Wellington mailboxes for the past week, with most people finding their home values had plummeted. Audio

Wellington Water plans to dig up part of one of the region's arterial routes in April for urgent repairs on a major Hutt Valley sewage pipe, warning there will be significant traffic disruption.

A man who lives in a Wellington social housing complex recently deemed earthquake-prone hopes some residents will be able to stay in their homes while work is carried out.