Thick smoke from a truck fire is reducing visibility on the motorway between Johnsonville and Porirua this afternoon.

Spontaneous combustion in a laundry bag caused a fire that closed a street in Newtown.

Investigations have begun into a system for Wellington which will use one card for all public transport.

ADAM POULOPOULOS - The Wellingtonian

Renovations are continuing on Hataitai church's new events centre, with work on the roof beginning last week.

A strip club has grabbed Wellington City Council’s boob and left the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation richer for it.

WCC is using $1m to help Wellington Airport gain consent for its proposed runway extension.

Wellington fisherman and diver Kevin Ransfield was nearing Karori Lighthouse yesterday morning when a large pod of dolphins surrounded his boat. 

More investment in infrastructure is needed to stop sewage discharges, residents say.

A $6 million upgrade of Johnsonville's Keith Spry Pool is about to begin.

The multi-million dollar upgrade of Shed 6 and TSB Bank Arena should be finished in August.

New rules before Parliament will open up Wellington's public transport market to more operators.

Bus cancellations are still affecting Wellington commuters today.

CAROLINE BROWN - The Wellingtonian

Wellington City Councillor John Morrison has promised not to cut Khandallah library's opening hours.

Controversial cuts to Wellington libraries will mean jobs lost and hours reduced, a union says.

An award-winning mountain bike park risks ''rapid decline'' without city council funding, organisers say.

The Golden Mile could become NZ's first smokefree CBD under a proposal made to council.

Plans to cut Khandallah Library's opening hours will put it on a path to closure, critics say.

NZ Bus is to be be sanctioned for the past two weeks' disruptions affecting Wellington buses.

Sir Ian McKellen is back in the capital to shoot the final scenes of The Hobbit trilogy.

Living in central Wellington has its perks, but for one couple it has been a 12-year noisy nightmare.

A man who took a taxi from Courtenay Pl to Carterton, a distance of about 85kms, initially ran off without paying the $200 fare.

Check here for any changes to your rail service tonight after the derailment.

Two teenagers on a stolen scooter led police on a low-speed pursuit in Wellington today.

Broadcaster John Campbell and All Black Conrad Smith are among the distinguished former students Victoria University will honour in July.

The father of a woman accused of murdering her baby faces rape and incest charges.

A new and improved Tawa Station will reopen on Monday, restoring order to the train commute for many residents. 

The name of a prominent Wellington tax specialist who is in the High Court this week on $1.5m tax evasion charges can now be published.

A Wellington woman jailed for importing MDMA was told worse offenders have gone on to lead good lives.

An inquest into the death of a former sportswoman who starved herself to death is under way.

A Wellington number is at the heart of a scam using Unicef’s name to get money out of people.

Campaigners have asked Wellington City Council to make the capital the first New Zealand city to embrace living wages.

Wellington Mayor Celia Wade-Brown got her girls out when the notoriously misspelt Topless Tce sign was handed over to the Breast Cancer Foundation yesterday.

Wellington schools offering night classes are clinging to their depleted programmes despite dramatic drops in enrolment since government funding was slashed in 2010.

A group of film students with a fake gun sparked a police callout in central Wellington today.

Wellington City Council has acknowledged its high rate of turnover and the loss of 80 jobs.

A panel has ranked Museum of Wellington City and Sea among the top 50 museums in the world.

Disruptions affecting Wellington bus routes 1 and 3 are to continue this afternoon.

A female octopus received a special Mother's Day gift when she became an exception to the rule by surviving motherhood.

Victoria University is to award more than 2400 qualifications this week.

A car and a motorcycle collided on SH1 between Johnsonville and Tawa this morning.

Hundreds of Wellington commuters are without a bus this morning, including the Airport Flyer.

A massacre of 50 Maori at Wellington's Tarakena Bay has been brought to light thanks to a lucky Google search.

Wellington City Council could be fined up to $600,000 after discharging millions of litres of sewage without resource consent.

Wellington buses are being diverted after a power outage near the Basin Reserve.

Cook Strait ferry Aratere is back off the run suffering this time from radar and stabiliser problems.

Those looking to buy property in the Wellington region are facing an ever-increasing challenge, with prices up $20,000 since a year ago.

A man sitting in a parked car was shunted five metres after a a drunk driver crashed a work vehicle into his passenger side in Newlands this morning.

Wellington mum Sarah Christie has a new lease on life after beating ovarian cancer - and a new attitude to Mother's Day.

Firefighters are at the scene of a large fire at a house on The Ridgeway in Mornington.

Wellington Zoo vets today bridged a kiwi's broken beak using a bone graft from her rib.