Feminists have criticised a rule forbidding pregnant or menstruating women to attend a Te Papa exhibit.

Lots of people start new businesses. Not so many sell them for more than $10 million. Two sisters tell Christine Nikiel how they did it - and why lunch matters.

Wellington's leadership is up in the air with long-serving incumbent Kerry Prendergast ahead of her nearest challenger by a mere 40 votes and many ballots still to be counted.

Wellington mayor Kerry Prendergast has a nervous two-day wait to see if she holds her position.

Police say a woman charged in connection with the burial of the body of a newborn baby boy at a Wellington house is the child's mother.

Green MP Keith Locke is warning the Government the lawsuit it's bringing against the Waihopai spy base saboteurs may backfire.

A post-mortem examination will today be carried out on the body of a young man found dead near a Hutt Valley stream.

A massive blaze at the building of a Wellington film effects studio linked to Sir Peter Jackson's movies took three hours to put out.