Year 9 students have been suspended from an Upper Hutt school after being caught inappropriately filming female staff.

Rape crisis experts are heading into Wellington College to meet with the school's leadership.

Top chef Martin Bosley is coming to the rescue of MPs who have given mixed reviews about the food at Parliament.

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

Most people have been allowed to return to Tory St already.

New Zealand universities have again scored high rankings in the annual QS World University Subject Rankings.

Wellington College is investigating social media posts made by two students describing 'taking advantage' of drunk women in a closed Facebook group.

Wellington police are hoping to reunite a war commendation with its rightful owner.

NZ-led study's findings bring new hope that the species may be more resilient than originally thought.

The New Zealand Defence Force and Ministry of Defence must now find a new headquarters for hundreds of staff.

A cold change sweeping up the South Island this afternoon has seen temperatures drop by double digits in 10 minutes.

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.

Travel is safer now, so fewer of us are dying in large-scale disasters, but climate change could reverse the trend.

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

The news Annette King is quitting politics has been greeted by disappointment from the Rongotai electorate. King is stepping down

The last of the Reading Cinema car park building was brought down on Tuesday.

Airline pilots want to delay a planning hearing regarding extension on Wellington Airport's runway.

Porirua's mayor stresses the shooting incident "had nothing to do with Porirua".

Court of Appeal rules Wellington Airport safety areas need a second look.

The future of Wellington International Airport's proposed runway extension is unclear.

Two US tourists thought they'd found the friendliest country in the world when they got talking to a woman at Wellington Airport - who happened to be Deputy PM.

A taxi driver has been fired after a dashcam caught him pulling a dodgy manoeuvre.

The man fatally shot by police in Porirua on Sunday morning has been named.

While autumn starts this week, summery weather is expected to continue for a while.

The police union is hitting back against suggestions a Taser could have been used instead of a gun.

Wellington's top cop is backing the officer who fatally shot a 44-year-old man.

For every sanitary product bought by a company, another will be given to a high school for free.

Rider flown to Wellington Hospital after crashing on Karori mountainbiking track

A Wellington woman who left millions of dollars to the SPCA in her will was honoured today when a new $4million animal centre was renamed after her.