Wellington Region

Kāpiti Coast District Council has voted to establish a Māori ward because young people in the district wanted the change.

Police said the pair were on a multi-day tramp when extreme wind conditions and poor weather led them to activate a rescue beacon on Sunday afternoon.

Police want to find a hard drive used to record CCTV footage from the property where Baby Ru lived and may have suffered fatal injuries.

A protester with the Restore Passenger Rail group could get a compensation payout after being arrested for putting up posters.

Housing project developers in Porirua have been fined more than $93,000 for unauthorised earthworks and discharge into the Mitchell Stream.

Damage to the hulls of two vessels during the past week are the latest in a series of disruptions, delays and cancellations to Cook Strait ferries this year.

A large hole has been ripped in the hull of the Cook Strait ferry Kaiarahi - the second ferry to damaged in a week. Audio

Wellington Water is working with emergency agencies to deal with potentially critically low water levels this summer.

Watch: Police are looking for sightings of a Nissan Sentra in relation to the killing of Lower Hutt toddler Ruthless-Empire Ahipene-Wall, also known as Baby Ru.

Crowds have cleared at Wellington station though the Kāpiti line was still impacted by a signal failure.

The Wellington City Council has voted to consult with the public on whether to sell its stake in the city's airport.

About 80 Palestinian supporters have been protesting outside the Israeli Embassy in central Wellington.

The ferry had a noticeable dent and a small hole above the waterline, Wellington's harbourmaster said.

A Wellington woman whose parked car was crashed into by a bus is furious at the response she got from the bus company.

Rats, stoats and weasels have been eliminated from the Miramar Peninsula in the capital.

Seventeen swallows were found coated in a glue-like substance near the city's Queensgate Shopping Centre in Lower Hutt and later died.

Almost six months after the fatal Loafers Lodge fire in Wellington, Fire and Emergency has yet to conclude its review of how it responded. Audio

Wellington Water is warning that fixing the region's water system would cost around $1 billion each year for the next 10 years. Audio

A shark expert says a diver has had an incredibly lucky escape when he was attacked by what is believed to be a great white shark off the Wairarapa coast.

Wellington City Council is considering selling its airport shares as it works out a way to pay for its long term plan.