This week in the Capital's politics the temperature rose steeply over the District Plan and infill housing. That was driven by the City's news maker the Dompost with a series of reports designed to give a favourable impression of a Council that has been papering over the cracks of a permissive District Plan.
Just the teamlists for week 14 of Wellington Premier club rugby at at 12.00pm Friday – the opening round of the 2025 Jubilee and Hardham Cup competitions. All teams subject to change. A full round preview will be published as a separate feature article on this website later on Friday afternoon. Note the Tawa v...
By Kevin McCarthy The French are coming – but they’re sending the Marie-Louises. The young, callow conscripts that Napoleon had to call up in 1813 and 1814 to defend France – because, basically, he’d killed, maimed or frozen to death most of his old timers. The European monarchies found this terribly disrespectful, but decided to...