Jan 27, 2025 · by Nemo What a great way to start 2025, with the sale of the Reading cinema complex to Prime Property. That’s the best news Wellington could have, outside of Wellington Water saying “we’ve fixed all the pipes”, or the WCC saying “rates bill going down 50% this year”.

Jan 25, 2025 · by Nemo What a great way to start 2025, with the sale of the Reading cinema complex to Prime Property. That’s the best news Wellington could have, outside of Wellington Water saying “we’ve fixed all the pipes”, or the WCC saying “rates bill going down 50% this year”.

Jan 27, 2025 · by Nemo What a great way to start 2025, with the sale of the Reading cinema complex to Prime Property. That’s the best news Wellington could have, outside of Wellington Water saying “we’ve fixed all the pipes”, or the WCC saying “rates bill going down 50% this year”.

1 day ago · Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau hit a ceremonial gong to commence the Lunar New Year fireworks on Saturday night, with over 10,000 people on the waterfront. The annual fireworks display heralds the start of the Lunar New Year, and the beginning of two weeks of festival events in Wellington. Mayor Tory ...

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Jan 18, 2025 · After a “gruelling year” for many businesses in the capital, owners who have survived till 2025 are hopeful the worst is behind them. A common theme among Wellington business owners spoken to by RNZ was that 2024 was tough – with very few exceptions. Many people were unaware of just how tough ...

Jan 9, 2025 · Thanks Nemo, that was a nice walk down memory lane. I think you are correct about what Prime will do in the meantime – keep the car park but hopefully ensure there is a walkway from Courtenay Place through to Te Papa and the waterfront which is where I believe Wellington’s major social attractions should happen including the refurbished band rotunda.

5 days ago · Wellington.Scoop The man behind a popular Facebook page says he’s running for mayor in this year’s local elections. Graham Bloxham told the NZ Herald he has sold his Wellington LIVE social media page to One Network Group, which he describes as a Wellington media organisation. He said he is in a “contract phase of …

Jan 21, 2025 · With the Taranaki Street Rising Main project completed, our contractors from E N Ramsbottom Ltd are building a new wastewater rising main (a pipe that carries wastewater under pressure) along Wakefield Street. Starting today, this project is expected to take around seven months to complete. Here’s ...

Jan 12, 2025 · The last WCC meeting of 2024 highlighted how profoundly under-qualified many of our councillors are. An amendment proposed by Councillor Calvert to try and keep the rates increase below 10% vs. the proposed “attempt” to get it down to below 12.8% (neither acceptable levels in my opinion) was ...