Wellington Region

Te Toi Mahana, a Wellington City Council organisation, was formed so tenants could access the government's Income Related Rent Subsidy.

Residents of the storm-smashed southern Wairarapa assess the damage after being inundated with floodwater. Audio

It has been approved despite strong opposition from neighbours.

The plant failed on 4 February, sending millions of litres of raw sewage into Cook Strait every day.

Confidential documents discovered in a former Wellington mayoral desk should have been destroyed, a review has found

The chair of Wellington's new water entity will not promise the Moa Point wastewater treatment plant will be fully fixed by the time it takes over.

Businesses on Wellington's South Coast are doing it tough since the failure of the Moa Point wastewater plant. Audio

Stormy weather in the capital this week blew birds off course and left some exhausted and in need of rescue.

More than 200 people are still cut off on the southern coastline.

Tiaki Wai replaces Wellington Water from 1 July, inheriting council-owned water assets including the Moa Point plant.

The Transport Minister says holding off on a second Mount Victoria tunnel is something under consideration, but the Finance Minister insists the project is "all go".

William Ray, an RNZ employee and Johnsonville resident, said his family were lucky to leave when they did, with the branch now precariously leaning against his house.

The Petone railway underpass on a nearly-new $70 million cycleway is thigh-deep in water more than two days after the storm and heavy rain in Wellington.

Two bridges are out of action on the only roads into several rural and coastal communities in southern Wairarapa.

Wellington Water had to revert to the short pipe after the pipe into Cook Strait was overwhelmed - but the short pipe has not been used for 24 hours.

Public concern over the total failure of the Moa Point wastewater treatment plant on Wellington's south coast has been growing, despite this week's announcement of an independent review. Video

The damage has split families, but soon they were ferrying supplies from one side to the other. Audio

It's a proposal that would spell the end of decades of foul smells that troubled the neighbouring Wellington suburb of Tawa.

"I screamed out to my kids 'get your arses up here now!' and I watched the whole thing just slide down."

Excess volumes of unscreened wastewater are going into the sea through the short outfall pipe.