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Park on the footpath and get a ticket, or block the road – the conundrum facing car owners on one of Wellington's narrowest streets.

John Wilson: Regional and bursting with tradition, Portuguese wines have arrived

Plans to reshape Wellington’s Golden Mile are looking increasingly bumpy as business groups and some right-wing councillors turn against the project.

The heir apparent to the Wellington City Council seat made vacant by Malcom Sparrow's retirement is 'not available'. Now councillors have to work out what to do with his pay.

An I told you so moment for Wellington officials

MONIQUE FORD/Stuff The change has occurred following complaints about increased risks to pedestrians and a lack of space for emergency vehicles. (File photo) It will revoke a 2005 council decision that permitted footpath parking anywhere in Wellington apart from the central city and suburban centres, provided at least one metre of footpath space was left fee. The feedback found that just 35 of the 246 submitters who commented on the idea opposed the change. Those in favour said it was import...

The paramedics thought Woolf was stroke material when they came to rescue him because his blood pressure was not going to down. Chief paramedic Dave Chittenden knew Woolf was a professional photographer by trade and encouraged him to take photos while waiting for the helicopter and while flying in it. While he was being flown he was sitting by a window of the helicopter, and he kept taking photos to help calm down. SIMON WOOLF/Supplied A photo of Lake Wakatipu Woolf took from inside the Otag...

The crucial, controversial plan to determine how Wellington will build and house its future was up for debate yesterday. The Spinoff’s political editor Justin Giovannetti was there. The sun was spilling through broad windows into the Wellington City Council boardroom on one of those rare winter d

“Vonnie was a huge presence and influence in relation to the fostering and furthering of photography in this country ... she was one of our country’s greatest ever photographers and has left an important and immense legacy.” Technically she was brilliant with all aspects of a camera, which she combined with a great eye for composition, he says. Vonnie Cave Vonnie Cave won the top prize at the Photographic Society of New Zealand National Exhibition in 1975 with this image, believed to ha...

The new name, Paekāka, honouring the area's Māori history and revival of the native Kākā parrot in the capital in recent years.