Mayor on $30k leadership course at luxury resort - at ratepayers' cost
Questions have been flying over Andy Foster's whereabouts this week.
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Awkward Wellington Convention Centre name double up
A café attached to Lower Hutt Events Centre is already named Tūtaki.
Multi-billion-dollar red flag over Wellington's water woes
2014 report revealed $2.6b needed to fix asbestos cement pipes, or ones in poor condition.
'Unacceptable' - Wellington Water warns major works needs to be done
Wellington Water admits it's in reactive mode instead of fixing issues ahead of failures.
Stuck between Shelly Bay, water woes, and a divided council
ANALYSIS: Anything but smooth sailing for Wellington City Council's new boss.
Wellington's water pipes leaking for weeks before being fixed
Leaks put on the back burner as Wellington Water's performance continues to slip.
Wellington water fiasco: 'My whole life has turned to s***'
Councillors move on mayor after council warned it is 'misreading the mood in Wellington'.
Comment: Wellington mayor struggling to spread his wings
Andy Foster needs to orchestrate, not try and play every instrument in the symphony.
Wellington water woes: 'Media release might be a good idea'
Leaked emails show new mayor and acting council boss coming under pressure to front up.
Chief executive's ambiguous words trigger Shelly Bay fiasco
'Mean what you say and say what you mean' - Shelly Bay mess gets messier.
Councils eye pulling out of 'contentious' arts fund
Lower Hutt and Porirua considering withdrawing from Wellington Regional Amenities Fund.
Wellington's water woes: 'My bedroom smells like a toilet'
Over a million litres of sludge is being transported by truck after a pipeline failed.
Porirua City Council faces billion-dollar water spend
Underinvestment in water infrastructure is leaving councils across Wellington scrambling.
Mayoral taskforce launched over Wellington's water woes
Wellington City Council moves into damage control over significant network failures.
Urgent meeting called over Wellington's water failures
ANALYSIS: Mayor Andy Foster calls meeting after being notably absent from water crisis.
Councillors told off for picking on each other
Councillors told to stop picking on each after jeers fly at committee meeting on parking.
Kāinga Ora accused of 'aggressively' poaching council staff
Call for the Government's new urban development authority to lower its salary offers.
Wellington to get double-decker pride bus
The bus will be out and proud on the streets to coincide with the city's Pride Festival.
Investigation into former Wellington mayor's email mix-up drags on
Wellington City Council probe into alleged leak includes computer system search attempt.
A third of Wellington's wastewater pipes in poor condition
Wellington's poo-gate systematic of a national problem that's been neglected for too long.
Investigation into Wellington City Councillor canned
Mayor Andy Foster has stopped the investigation launched by his predecessor Justin Lester.
Damning report: Hutt City's woeful water pipes
Wellington City isn't alone in poo-gate, Hutt City Council now faces its day of reckoning.
Sticker campaign highlights road-crossing issues for visually impaired
Silent crossing signals still a problem for blind people in the capital.
Council faces up to the rules on Rainbow Crossing
COMMENT: The ridiculous saga of NZTA, Wellington City Council and the Rainbow Crossing.
Swastikas spray-painted outside Jewish congregation
'As New Zealand citizens we should feel entitled to feel safe and practise our religion.'
Capital's tight rental market pushes emergency grants to $1m
Quarterly spend on grants cracks a million dollars, numbers skyrocket in 18 months.
Wellington Water Whirler gets the speed wobbles
The infamous Len Lye sculpture has been removed after hairline cracks were discovered.
'I feel so guilty': 200 messages flood in for flat open home
Wellingtonians overwhelmed with desperation after posting rooms for rent on Facebook.
The Serengeti, Stonehenge, and... the Beehive?
Research underway into elevating the Parliamentary Precinct to World Heritage status.
E-scooters stripped for parts, thrown in harbour
Volunteer divers have retrieved 19 e-scooters from the depths of Wellington's harbour.
Market pressure: Social housing wait list jumps 42% in month
Vulnerable people priced out of the market as people look further afield than Wellington.
Wellington city councillor winched out of Routeburn Track
Simon Woolf's family hike ended in a dramatic rescue after he slipped and fell.
Comment: The awkward Sir Peter Jackson question
Wellington's mayor made an awkward 6.3 second long pause in an interview this week.