Wellington city councillors will vote next week on a new purpose-built convention centre and five-star hotel that will cost ratepayers $2m per year to lease.

Auckland City Missioner Diane Robertson has said her staff have reported a rise in clients showing symptoms of solvent abuse.

Wellington City Council has admitted personal details of up to 120,000 people were inadvertently released by its parking contractor.

Wellington's re-elected mayor wants to push ahead with a merger of local councils but won't say whether she would run as mayor of the super city.

Wellington's re-elected mayor wants to push ahead with a merger of local councils but won't say whether she would run as mayor of the supercity.

John Morrison used to dream of spending his retirement growing vegetables and catching fish.

Wellington's mayor is hopeful it will be business as normal tomorrow despite 35 buildings in the CBD found to have been externally damaged by yesterday's severe earthquake.

Prime Minister says he's yet to get a briefing on how much yesterday's quake might have cost, but, in principle, the country can afford another big one.

Dr John Key has blurted out loud what we've long suspected, Wellington is a terminal case, writes Brian Rudman. Incurable. "We don't know how to turn it around."

The premiere of The Hobbit injected almost $12 million into the Wellington economy, the city's council says.

Can the winds of Wellington help the capital city to join Auckland and become a marine industry hub?