'You can't build them fast enough': Escalating rents drive families into emergency housing
Emergency housing special needs grants have more than doubled in two years.
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Cafes vie for most decadent drink in summer challenge
Lower Hutt cafes and eateries will be serving up their most decadent drinks this month.
'Deep pain' as precious taonga stolen from charity
The set of carvings were gifted to the organisation by inmates at Rimutaka Prison.
Missing Lower Hutt woman found safe
She was last seen at her Stokes Valley address on Sunday.
Resident's decline was 'accelerated' by problems at her Lower Hutt rest home, son claims
The woman lived at the resthome for several years and died after two falls two years ago.
Watch: Footage captures car hurtling into fence, occupants flee scene
"As soon as we saw it we knew we would have caught the whole thing on camera."
Commercial contractors win school lunch tender
Big companies get most school lunch contracts as time pressure overrules local jobs.
Businesses urged to use posters for Crohn's sufferers
Businesses can put a poster in the window so people know they can use their toilets.
Wellington City Council considers renters' advocacy service
The council is looking to help those caught up in an increasingly volatile rental market.
'This is the end of my life': Night-time plunge off wharf sparks heroic rescue
"Angel" rescuer saves woman from water, then shouts her a Maccas hot chocolate.
'Our role model': Hero dad 'sacrificed himself' saving family at beach
"He said 'I love you my love', and I repeated it back."
Pilot dies after light aircraft crashes in Upper Hutt
Police were alerted after a witness saw the plane crash this afternoon.
Porirua and Lower Hutt residents on edge
A teenager was attacked over the weekend outside Queensgate Mall.
Man, 71, arrested on drugs charges
The arrest follows the termination of Operation Skipjack in Wellington.
Three people treated in hospital after eating spoiled fish from Hello Fresh meal
The trio took themselves to Hutt Valley DHB's emergency department after eating the fish.
Killed cyclist's family speak of 'huge loss'
Khing Wong was writing a text message seconds before the fatal crash.
Mayor urges review of Wellington Water's structure
Wellington water woes back in spotlight with mayor's call for review.
Man who filmed children reacting to indecent act jailed
Daniel Pritchard filmed the reactions of passing children as he performed an indecent act.
Disgruntled tenant's revenge caused chemical burn
Aida Rolon didn't intend to harm her landlord with the bleach trick.
Councillor refuses to apologise for code of conduct breach
If Chris Milne does not apologise, he will be struck off the committee.
Mayor gives unwanted alpaca new home
The alpaca and sheep have joined Mayor Campbell Barry's family of farmyard pets.
Election results: Candidates in Wellington's hottest race front
National's Chris Bishop and Labour's Ginny Anderson join Newstalk ZB live on air.
Election 2020: Our diverse 40 new MPs
Who are they? They include our first African, Latin American and Sri Lankan MPs.
Election results: Behind the scenes of an electorate down to the wire
Labour's Ginny Andersen has snatched back Hutt South in a rollercoaster of a night.
Police release name of man who died in Lower Hutt
Police say they're now treating the death as unexplained and no longer a homicide.
Auckland man convicted for sex with mentally impaired woman
The woman could not comprehend the fact she was pregnant, the court heard.
Communities split over free school lunches
Full list: Which schools will get free school lunches?
Free school lunches: Wellington and South Island
Full list: Who gets free school lunches in Wellington and the South Island.
The electorates worth watching on election night
A number of the country's 72 electorates will be hotly contested.
'Bizarre' claim sex assault victim was attacker
Jesse Delaney lied to police that the victim had been the one sexually assaulting him.
Election 2020: Remutaka, where the MP is the Health Minister
It's a battleground between Labour and National but is a decades-long red stronghold.
Hutt City councillor breached code of conduct, investigation finds
New report says councillor Chris Milne breached the council's code of conduct.
Election 2020: Hutt South on a knife-edge
Chris Bishop managed to turn the seat blue in 2017, but can he hang onto it?
Greens pitch walking and cycling tunnel in Wellington
The Green Party wants to double Mt Victoria's tunnel, but not for cars.