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News from WCC Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington will be bursting with all the colours of the rainbow as we celebrate our queer community with two weeks of events and activities for the Pride Festival. Supported by the Wellington City Council, and organised by groups within the community, the Pride Festival will open on Saturday with a gala evening – He Tāngata, and will include the popular queer fair Out in the City, Pride Ball, and the annual Hīkoi.​ The City Council will also be getting involved with a Pride roller disco, hoisting rainbow flags in the city, Wellington libraries will be ...

680-Meter-Wide Asteroid Is Approaching Earth Today 03/02/21 AT 6:00 AM New York's Empire State Building is lit with a white and red 'siren' to pay tribute to medical workers battling the coronavirus Photo: AFP / Johannes EISELE KEY POINTS Asteroid 1999 RM45 will fly by Earth on Tuesday at approximately 3:52 p.m. EST The space rock is estimated to be taller than the Empire State Building, according to NASA's CNEOS The asteroid is not expected to pose a threat and has not been included in the European Space Agency's Risk List A massive asteroid estimated to be larger than the Empire S...

Prime Minister Richard Seddon officially opened the service in 1902 surrounded by Kelburn’s scrub-covered hills but the quick access the service provided soon assisted the growth of the once-considered “outer” suburb. The Kelburne​ & Karori Tramway Company’s grant of $1000 (the equivalent of $186,300 today) influenced the selection of Victoria University’s hilltop location and ensured a healthy supply of students using the cable car to travel between the campus and the city. The cable car power house, and the cable car line under construction circa 1901, with Upland Rd visibl...

News from WCC Wellington’s Cable Car is turning 119 this month, and everyone’s welcome to join the celebrations of its many ups and downs since it first opened to the public in 1902. Construction began in 1899 as demand for transport in the area grew with the growing population, and through two world wars, plagues and pestilence, facelifts and an assortment of challenges, it has stood the test of time – and will clock up many more trips in the future. Mayor Andy Foster says the Cable Car has served many purposes over the years, and has, and always will be a popular drawcard to the city.

LOCATION The Bolton goes about its stylish business amid the bureaucrats who stalk this tight axis of streets next to the Beehive. If that’s your buzz – or you like to “play spot the politician” – you’ll be in location heaven. Owner/founder Warwick Angus struck gold with this site: it’s bordered by the Botanic Gardens and the Bolton Street Memorial Park (formerly known as the Bolton Street Cemetery which was famously sliced into this side and that when the Wellington Urban Motorway ploughed through in the 1960s, causing some 3700 graves to be relocated). Supplied All of The B...