Latest from Wellington City Council

Wellington Southern Landfill a 'sewage sludge cemetery'

City faces looming sludge overload, Hutt City Council votes for review of Wellington Water

Cycleways to Wellington's eastern suburbs over budget

Mayor says the council has to do better on its budgeting processes after latest blowout.

Wellington faces $185m bill for expected sludge overload

Increasing sludge volumes will soon mean it cannot all be dumped at the landfill.

Wellington's national music centre on shaky ground

Redevelopment costs blowout to $84 million in plan to transform NZ's arts scene.

Island Bay cycleway: Wellington council's biggest embarrassment

The sorry state of affairs that is Island Bay cycleway lands at council meeting, again.

Wellington City Council moves on mana whenua voting rights

City council one step closer to giving Mana Whenua voting rights and remuneration.

Wellington council told to bowl central library and move on

"This is not about dictating the use of a museum for my generation of baby boomers."

Election 2020: Why your vote in Wellington counts

Everyone has a position on a second Mt Victoria tunnel, but what about everything else?

Wellington council paying millions in rent since quake damage closed headquarters

City spending more than $3.6 million a year renting office space on The Terrace.

'Grossly uneconomic': Quake-prone building owner resorts to demolition

Owner faces $6m strengthening bill for a building that would then only be worth $2.5m.

Book from 1902 returned to library decades later: What about the $32k fine?

The overdue fees of 'a penny a day' have been waived.

Disabled passengers raise concerns in Wellington bus review

Poor driver attitudes, commuters not vacating seats, and audible announcements not working

Volunteer CCTV monitoring scrapped in Wellington's party district

The revelations come after two brawls recently broke out in the city in as many weeks.

Wellington City Council backtracks on Convention Centre name

A new name is being proposed after an awkward double up with a Lower Hutt café.

New cracks discovered in Wellington's Civic Administration Building

City council and insurers remain in a dispute four years after Kaikoura earthquake damage.

Wellington's Mt Vic the first of three tunnels in Election 2020 battle

Parties have come to the party on Wellington transport, but will it get the city moving?

Double whammy for Wellington café operating in Civic Square ghost town

Nikau Café doing it tough after council staff left the square then Covid-19 hit.

Clock ticking on Wellington water supply: 'We don't want to be Auckland'

Upper Hutt mayor warns water metering not a silver bullet for the region's supply issue.