About 800 Ministry of Education specialist staff who work directly with children to support their learning needs will strike next week, saying they have been forced to walk off the job after the ...

Police are responding to an incident on railway lines near Cambridge Terrace in Waterloo. Hutt Valley train services are affected, and Police are asking the public to avoid the area. Commuters ...

Report from RNZ by Lauren Crimp A landslip has crashed down against two homes in Porirua, forcing the occupants out until ...

Wainuiomata stream. News from Greater Wellington Regional Council Volunteers planted locally sourced natives at ...

Let’s take a breather from today’s negative carry-on in the Council elections. There’s still beauty in this city! Positivity abounds in corners and out in the open. Tonight I attended a ...

The government’s new policy for polytechnics, announced today, leaves Weltec and Whitireia within a much reduced Te Pukenga, “as they work toward viability.” The government says ...

Wellington City Councillor and mayoral candidate Ray Chung and his Independent Together group had an audience of mostly supportive voters at the Miramar and Maupuia Community Centre last night.

Whanganui’s average rates increase of 2.2 percent for the year ahead is the lowest in New Zealand. Mayor Andrew Tripe says the low figure is the envy of the country and the payoff in a sustained ...

The Hutt City Council has published its 2025 Pre-Election Report ahead of the local elections in October. Chief Executive Jo Miller said that while the report is a statutory requirement, it also ...

Elizabeth Kerr When composer Dame Gillian Whitehead took the stage to receive applause at the end of the world premiere ...

Tom Grut Aotearoa’s genre-defying heavyweights KORA are back. With their long-awaited new album Fifth Season just announced ...

The Taxpayers’ Union has today launched the 2025 New Zealand Rates Dashboard at RatesDashboard.nz The Rates Dashboard is for ratepayers to compare their council’s annual and cumulative ...