Stories by Kate Green

A new report on the capital's changing climate forecasts increasing temperatures, strong winds and intense rain around the region.

The programme see groups of young people fed, housed, trained and emerge after six weeks ready to hit the job market.

More families are set to qualify for subsidies to cover the cost of childcare, but early learning centres are hoping more support will be announced for them, too.

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled a flyer by former Wellington mayoral candidate Paul Eagle to be misleading.

Groups that plan to trial the use of textile fibres in asphalt and to pilot a network of micromobility hubs around Auckland's Panmure Station are among the successful first-round applicants.

Pay increases for bus drivers will not likely be seen by Wellington bus drivers until mid-next year, despite the announcement of a boost in government funding.

The New Zealand public thinks threats to our national security are increasing, with natural disasters, misinformation, hacking and epidemics at the top of their list of concerns.

Three have been taken into custody after occupying the gantry during their latest demonstration which has disrupted traffic in the capital.

The cruise ship visiting Wellington yesterday, and Napier the day before, has not been following current Covid isolation guidelines.

A rail advocacy group has been campaigning for the national train network to be restored to pre-2000 levels, but what would this actually look like?

Experts are warning people to be extra cautious in the sun this summer, with UV radiation levels already averaging higher than last year.

Nurses at three private hospitals in Wellington and Hawke's Bay are on a 24-hour strike over pay and conditions.

The state housing provider is being taken to court by private developer Winton Land after refusing to fast-track a huge Auckland housing development. Audio

An increase in electric buses has led to better air quality in Wellington's central city.

A University of Canterbury paper titled "The x-minute city" found that in Wellington, 35 percent of residents lived within a 10-minute walk of all amenities.

The fourth of six women to testify in the rape trial of a Wellington man says she felt confused when she awoke to find not the person she had gone to bed with, but his friend.

Two police officers who faced a knife-wielding attacker in a Dunedin supermarket last year have been awarded for bravery.

Chris Hipkins is not ruling out a law change to support police in continuing to take photographs and fingerprints from young people - and he's told police he'll support them challenging a report…

A group of rail advocates who hung a banner from traffic signs across Wellington's Urban Motorway near Bowen Street, closing it to traffic have now removed it.