Council looks to building owners for housing solution

Southbound lanes have been blocked in Wellington this afternoon.

A 12,000 seat concert arena plan has got the tick from the Wellington region's mayors.

Investigations are looking into the possible causes and consequences of the contamination.

Dogs will see penguins as prey and can kill them in just a few seconds.

Living Wage supporters deliver a petition backing Wellington City Council's new pay rates.

Illegal residential tenancies in a Wellington office block have been known since 2013.

Wellington City Council parking officers will start wearing body cameras this week.

Concerns pedestrians will walk straight into the pole in the middle of a busy crossing.

An argument's broken out over where New World Metro at the Railway can display alcohol.

Exciting - but smelly - return home for Wellington quake exiles.

Wellington Council and sculptor Neil Dawson are at odds over destroying his art work.

Wellington's iconic ferns sculpture, estimated to have cost $150,000, has been discovered in a waste management yard.

Wellington streets that became notorious for tyre slashings, could soon get parking changes.

Justin Lester hopes the council can develop affordable homes for first home buyers.

The real minimum wage needed for a family to have a decent standard of living is about to rise to $20.20 an hour, says the Living Wage movement.

It is hoped the demolition-hit Tory St area of the Wellington city centre will be reopened around early April.

Wellington beggars are becoming more opportunistic, using "standover tactics", and even operating on "rosters". In a meeting this

The November earthquake was the likely cause of a leak affecting the main water supply pipe to Wellington City.

The Taxpayers' Union has praised the Wellington City Council for turning down former Mayor Celia Wade-Brown's leaving gift request.

Quake-damaged buildings to be torn down and the materials reused.

Demolition of the Reading Cinema carpark building will begin next week.

Preparations are under way to tear down carpark building damaged in Wellington quake.

Relief for Wellington workers this morning as part of Molesworth St finally reopens.

Demolition contractors have been able to get a small amount of material out of the quake-damaged building at 61 Molesworth St.

Rob Zorn's car is one of 10 vehicles left in Wellington building to be demolished that cannot be retrieved.

Wellington's notorious weather has delayed the demolition of quake-damaged office building.

Opetaia Siale won't be spending Christmas at home - he'll be cleaning Wellington's public toilets while his family forgo presents so they can afford a Christmas meal.

The earthquake-stricken Reading Cinema carpark building in central Wellington will be demolished.

Wellington City Council's recovery manager officially has the power to make building owners share the results of their building inspections with the council.