Tom Hunt

As confusion and anger about new Wellington rate and water bills ripple around the region, one man has a bonus council snafu that will cost him more than $30,000 a year from now on.

If Labour's dreams to get Wellington moving were maligned as amounting to a pedestrian crossing , National's risk becoming a short extra lane and an extension of limbo-land.

Wellington City Council staff have been called to meetings about wide-ranging redundancy proposals, The Post understands.

Tom Hunt is a senior reporter covering local government for The Post OPINION: For an organisation that takes its image so seriously, Tiaki Wai has had a horror week for public relations.

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Martin Peyton will be at the Castlebar Training Session after the track session tomorrow (Tuesday, August 4) at 8pm for shot put/field event training session.

Final-week Wellington amalgamation manoeuvring has left cities preparing to vote on an unpopular super city stretching from Wellington to Kāpiti - and pulling an unwilling Wairarapa town into the fold.

Victims of an alleged window swindle will have to wait nine more months for justice because one of the accused, granted bail to return temporarily to the United States, will not be in New Zealand for the original trial date.

A mostly bare table at Pastor Joe's tells its own story. As Wellington shivers through a bitingly cold stretch, most residents reach for the thermostat