The comments from Labour’s campaign chairperson come after pictures emerged on social media of Te Pāti Māori and Green Party candidates campaigning at a Mongrel Mob gang pad.

Āta cafe has opened in the city gallery, filling the space formerly occupied by Nikau café for over 25 years.

The Green Party has promised to cancel the latest round of public service cuts if elected, at a cost of $3.17 billion.

With living costs rising and student debt climbing, parties are pitching competing plans to ease pressure and reshape how tertiary education is funded.

An interim Transport Accident Investigation Commission report has cast fresh light on the June train crash which injured six in Wellington’s Khandallah.

OPINION: Here’s my commitment to Wellingtonians. We will hold Tiaki Wai accountable and ensure it spends wisely on its infrastructure and keeps costs down.

COMMENT: Christopher Luxon never really delivered his key campaign message at the first leaders’ debate last week. This time he did.

WATCH: What’s it like growing up with one of Aotearoa’s most celebrated writers as your parent? Wiremu Grace joins Articulate to talk about family, legacy, expectations, and the opportunities that exi...

Wairarapa vines are being pulled out as growers grapple with rising production costs and uncertain returns from grape sales.

COMMENT: The most interesting moment of the debate was all about a man who wasn’t there - Christopher Luxon.

OPINION: We need an adult conversation about what communities need, what those things cost, and which level of government should pay. The next Government will bring its own priorities, and local gover...

Wellington City Council is handing responsibility for its art collection to specialist curators in a bid to get more of the city’s artworks out of storage and in front of the public.

The “historically significant” Nairn St Cottage attracts about 500 visitors a year but a pop-up exhibition has dramatically increased that number.

OPINION: Wellington’s water network is finally being rebuilt, but without Government backing the cost burden on households and businesses will be too great.

OPINION: Hayley Horan argues Wellington is turning a corner, pointing to rising hospitality sales, tech‑sector momentum and renewed business confidence as evidence the city is shifting forward.

The proposed cuts come just ahead of an election where public service reductions are a hot topic in Wellington.

The Lumini Election Lens has turned hundreds of policy pages into something Post readers can explore and interact with.

How politicians’ teams ensure their public appearances go well - or not, in some cases.

Parliament’s Green suite is disciplined and planning for a 20-MP caucus. But operational readiness is not the same as political ruthlessness.

From a Lego-obsessed kid to a student protester arrested outside Parliament, Chris Hipkins has always been fascinated by how things work - and how to fix them.

The phrase would come to haunt him later on in his political life, but Luxon was always a boy who got himself “sorted”.

Wellington’s most significant public gallery is finally reopening after a 2½-year closure, marking the return of one of the capital’s major cultural spaces - and welcoming into it the extraordinary an...

As the two main parties keep collapsing in the polls, dangerous scenarios emerge.

Parents face a two-year gap between paid parental leave ending and universal 20 hours ECE beginning. With childcare costs keeping some parents out of paid work, we look at what the parties are offerin...

Four major EDs have escalated “state of emergency” warnings to Health NZ, describing dangerous overcrowding, extreme delays and unsafe staffing levels as winter pressure exposes system‑wide strain

They were more-measured but Wellington North candidates largely join their neighbours in saying Government help is needed

Test your general knowledge with today’s quiz: Which food franchise has the slogan “Eat Fresh”?

The cost of living, particularly the price of food, has dominated the election, but which party has the right recipe to actually bring these costs down?

Outdated political attitudes, worsening cost barriers, and workforce ageism are holding back older people, a report says.

The National Party says it will introduce random drug-testing of Kiwis on the Jobseeker benefit and cut rates

“Fossicking in a rockpool is a Kiwi tradition,” says Shane Jones. “However, it’s being exploited by a selfish few who are taking far too much.”

The reshaped Wellington North electorate spans public‑service hubs, affluent hills and renter‑heavy streets, producing a contest where party loyalties and local issues collide.

Water funding, tunnel tolls, cycle lanes and homelessness divided the five people vying to represent the electorate.

Wellington, a political town, is broadly positive about the city’s leaders though not so much about the city’s direction.

COMMENT: Chris Hipkins managed to keep the debate a long way away from “nine new taxes”.

Take a walk down one main street, where the loan shark is the only one feeling good, and things are not so rosy in one of our wealthiest electorates.

Transport staff had a serious quandary on their hands: Would Christopher Luxon still be PM by the time the City Rail Link opened?

Green co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick says the National Party’s attack on her party’s tax plan is backfiring.

The proposed cuts range from the minor, such as citizenship ceremonies, to a $1.8m reduction in funds for Te Papa.

COMMENT: National’s campaign machine is impressive, but it doesn’t seem to have convinced more than a very rusted-on quarter of the population to back National.

The law around tracking apps is complex - even if the devices can be creepy.

COMMENT: Labour is sticking so tightly to National’s spending plans that its promises start to seem heroic. It doesn’t need to.

Politicians broadly agree the country needs faster productivity growth. Their prescriptions range from tax incentives and deregulation to public investment, stronger competition and a much bigger push...

The editor personally thinks Thursday’s Hobson’s Pledge ad was “repulsive” - but here’s why it ran.

Politicians are finally out on the hustings.

ANALYSIS: A respectful debate with plenty of policy gave voters a useful opening look at the smaller-party leaders. The two main contenders are next.

Join us for the Kingmakers’ Debate from 7.30pm.

A new report reveals while adverse events in hospitals and specialist care are considered “rare”, 59 people died in a six-month period last year as a result of delayed care, or a fall.

A development left unfinished by a company collapse is being reshaped, with 41 three-bedroom townhouses planned and prices starting at $620,000.