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The award-winning TE KAAHU (Waikato-Tainui, Ngaati Tiipaa) has released a beautiful triptych of waiata titled I ROTO I TE POO, I ROTO I TE AO, which revolves around the theme of aroha (love). At ...

Report from RNZ by Chris Cessford Residents of Wellington’s Mt Victoria say the city council has betrayed them by changing ...

News from Wellington City Council A developer has been identified and officers have been approved to negotiate a development agreement for the iconic heritage-listed Band Rotunda on Oriental Bay.

The Wellington City Council will on Tuesday debate and vote on providing a submission on the coalition government’s Treaty Principles Bill. I strongly reject that it is the business of the city ...

A child drowned at Avalon Park in Lower Hutt last night. Police said emergency services were called to Avalon Park at around 8.10pm after a child was retrieved, unresponsive, from a shallow pond.

State Highway 58 was closed for over an hour this afternoon between the Paremata roundabout and Oak Avenue following a crash. The two-car crash, which occurred near the intersection of Bayview ...

Protesters greeting the Royal Princess Cruise ship in Pōneke this morning erected a giant banner on the cenotaph and several people were dowsed in “blood” representing the harm done to people, the ...