Wellington Region

Hollywood heavyweight James Cameron is among 54 Avatar crew granted permission to arrive back in New Zealand today to resume work on the $1 billion movie sequels.

Wellington's billion dollar project Transmission Gully is getting a $14 million boost to kick the project back into action as negotiations continue.

Wellington's 'turd taxis' are back in action less than a week after they were stood down.

Workers are digging around a sewer pipe that burst in Wellington's central business area to try work out why it failed.

A burst sewage pipe has resulted in the closure of Victoria St in central Wellington.

A highly experienced engineer says many in the industry cannot understand how cost estimates to repair Wellington's shuttered city library could be more than rebuilding it.

A woman has died after she was hit a train at a level crossing in Tawa in Wellington.

It's been 10 weeks since Transmission Gully was put on hold and there's still no date for work to resume.

The trucks hauling human waste around Wellington's south coast to a landfill will finally stop now a sewer pipe has been repaired.

Wellington's mayor has awarded the Key to the City to a celebrity inner city cat.

Buses are replacing most trains services on all Wellington lines this weekend while track maintenance and upgrade work is done.

Covid-19 will blow the budget again on Wellington's billion dollar road project Transmission Gully, but who will pay the extra is unclear.

Police are asking the public to help identify a body found in the water at Evans Bay in Wellington today.

Wellington's turd taxis may be off the city's streets in two weeks, as progress on repairs to a collapsed pipe have surged ahead.

Police have arrested a 29-year-old man who escaped custody yesterday evening.

Police are searching for a 29-year-old man who tonight escaped custody while being taken to hospital from Rimutaka Prison.