The New Zealand Herald reported at 3pm that Andrew Little has been elected as mayor of Wellington with a “healthy lead” that is not expected to change. At 3.10 The Post reported that he was ...

Wellington.Scoop Ken Laban has won the Hutt City mayoralty with 8704 votes. Brady Dyer is the runner up with 6974.

Latest voting figures for the Wellington City Council show that 57,738 people have voted so far, representing 35.37 per cent of eligible voters. This compares with 34.

A two-year bylaw which will ban vehicles accessing a scenic stretch of South Wairarapa coastline was adopted on Wednesday by the district council. As part of the bylaw, which will come into ...

Checkpoint Evie Richardson, Digital Producer Checkpoint Prime Minister Christopher Luxon believes he has an answer to the high youth unemployment rate, encouraging young people struggling to ...

Tāmaki Makaurau is recording the lowest voter turnouts in the country, with one day left of local elections to go.  According to stats from Local Government New Zealand, 983,466 votes had been ...

Around a third of eligible voters have do far returned their voting forms in the Ashburton and Selwyn local body elections.  But unless there’s a late surge, Ashburton could record its ...

Te Papa Tongarewa has announced plans for a two stage restructure in an effort to cut costs at the national museum. Last year Te Papa started charging international visitors due to rising costs of ...

Wellingtonians are tired of paying hundreds of dollars per household to make the city a worse place to live,” said Wellington Ratepayers’ Alliance spokesman James Ross today. Responding to ...

KiwiRail has entered into an agreement to sell the aged and out of service Interislander ferry Aratere to a buyer which will deliver it to a specialist recycling shipyard in India. Aratere has ...

Report from RNZ The housing provider which took over operation of the Wellington City Council’s social housing service has ...

Report from RNZ by Nick James Wellington residents are gutted that a beloved beach all but disappear at high tide, after a ...