Stories by Laura Dooney

The New Zealand government needs to do more on climate change, a new report says.

Wairarapa residents living in flood-prone areas are confused and angry about a proposal to change the way they pay for flood protection.

A Wellington city councillor has been criticised for being heavy-handed in her efforts to rid the city of sexual assault.

A new Chinese embassy building will be built on a hectare of land in Wellington's Mt Cook.

Road works on a street in Petone, Lower Hutt, cut 65 percent of a businessman's profits over three weeks making it hard for him to feed his family, he says.

Work is already well under way to reduce pollution from farms going into waterways, farmers say.

A lawyer who says she was raped by a senior male colleague while summer clerking, is telling her story to encourage others to come forward.

As the Wahine floundered in Wellington harbour, a young soldier went to help survivors as they swept into Seatoun on lifeboats. He recently tried to track down a boy he saved.

The Manawatu-Wanganui regional council is expecting controversy after asking locals if they want to add an 'h' to the spelling of its name.

Green is the new yellow for Wellington buses, with the first batch of new buses for Wellington's streets arriving from the UK.

Wellington bus drivers are already embroiled in a legal fight with their new boss over pay and conditions.

Pāua divers are asking for human safety to be considered when it comes to shark cage diving. Video

Kāpiti Coast District Council plans to talk to airlines about expanding services beyond the Auckland to Kāpiti route that needs replacing when Air NZ pulls out.

Freedom campers say New Zealand is 'made for' people like them, as authorities face up to an issue they agree has reached crisis point.

Wellington City council has moved to widen a proposed bed tax, as it looks for ways to fund economic and tourism growth in the city while keeping rates down.

Sub-contractors weren't following health-and-safety regulations when a man was killed by a lift he was fixing in a Wellington building, a coroner has been told.

Wellington City Council is considering getting rid of free parking on the weekends, in a bid to keep rates down.

Wellington City Council is planning to spend nearly $28 million on getting more homes built in the capital.

Porirua's children are suffering increasing rates of abuse, despite such abuse declining across the rest of the country, a report prepared by the Porirua City Council shows.

West Coast authorities are already preparing for the ex-tropical cyclone Gita to hit. Audio

The company hoping to keep chocolate manufacturing alive and well in Dunedin has found a site for its expansion.

Victoria University is planning to build accommodation for students past first year, to help ease the rental shortage and price gouging in Wellington.

A mother in Wellington is "struggling" to find a new place to live with her daughter after her rent went up by $100 a week. Video

If a proposed restructure goes ahead at Plunket, it will still provide well for families, a former president of the organisation says.

A leading freshwater ecologist is criticising planned chlorination of Christchurch's water supply as a last resort, or ambulance-at-the-bottom-of-a-cliff approach.