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Charging Hub for electric vehicles at Silverstream landfill

Hutt City Council Deputy Mayor Keri Brown, Hutt City Council Mayor Ken Laban, David Howie, (Executive General Manager, Waste ...
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NZ Drug Trends And Roadside Testing – Personal Awareness On The Rise

Photo/Supplied. New Zealand’s latest National Drugs in Wastewater Testing Programme results (Q3: July–September 2025) show ...
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Six decades of photography by women and non-binary artists

News from Te Papa Drawn from Te Papa collections, Slow Burn: Women and Photography | Ahi Tāmau: Māreikura Whakaahua brings ...
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48 flights cancelled after fog covers Wellington Airport runway

Fog caused disruption at Wellington Airport today, with 48 flights cancelled. Flights leaving for Christchurch, Napier and Dunedin were among those cancelled, along with flights arriving from ...
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Wellington fifth on list of new homes consented – 18% increase in a year

There were 36,619 new homes consented in Aotearoa New Zealand in the year ended December 2025, up 9.0 percent compared with the year ended December 2024, according to figures released by Stats NZ ...
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Detours and delays as buses replace trains this weekend

Metlink rail services will be replaced by buses over Waitangi weekend (Friday 6 to Sunday 8 February) as KiwiRail carry out rail infrastructure upgrades, building on progress made over the new ...
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Water charges going up, and water meters coming soon

Ratepayers in the Wellington metropolitan area will have two bills from 1 July as the new water entity Tiaki Wai replaces Wellington Water. The new organisation will provide drinking water, ...