Two crashes blocked State Highway 2 on River Road in Cloustoun Park tonight. NZTA reported the first crash at 6pm at the Totara Park Road intersection. It told drivers to expect delays.

In a serious crash in central Johnsonville this afternoon, a car hit a pedestrian. The crash happened shortly before 1:10pm on Moorefield Road, outside the Johnsonville library. It is believed ...

News from NZ Police Hutt Valley Police successfully disrupted a planned anti-social road user gathering in Lower Hutt last ...

Lindsay Shelton I visited Tākina for the first time this week. It’s a huge and beautiful building. But it was almost empty.

A quiet trailblazer, a beloved kōhanga reo nanny and the translators behind the first-ever bilingual Olympic sporting glossary were among those recognised at Ngā Tohu Reo Māori 2025, the annual ...

A burst water pipe at 32 Kerkwall Drive in Naenae. affected a large area in Naenae at 8am this morning as the supply from the reservoir was impacted. A new valve was being installed above the ...

A large fire on the Central Plateau has triggered evacuations of trampers and caused the closure of a nearby highway. About 400 hectares of the Tongariro National Park was estimated to be on fire, ...

Simon and Angela Bendall, owners of The Jetty, with front of house manager Cass Symons; (right photo) Whittaker’s CEO James ...

One of the biggest names in New Zealand film-making has died. Lee Tamahori made his feature film directorial debut in 1994 with the ground-breaking Once Were Warriors. Born in Tawa, he started ...

Ross Calman (Non-fiction) and Dinah Hawken (Poetry) News from Creative NZ Three outstanding New Zealand writers will tonight ...

Smith Mayor Little and the new Wellington City Council are off to a good start on one issue – the fencing of the waterfront.

The owner of a new, independent Upper Hutt supermarket hopes he can offer locals an alternative to the big supermarket duopoly. Plenty Foods supermarket opened in Brewtown yesterday, the second ...