Wellington.Scoop
The man who was assaulted yesterday in a Kilbirnie house has died this morning in Wellington Hospital. A 49 year old man has been arrested and charged with his murder. Read more »

Wellington.Scoop
A 95-year-old driver was killed in a crash near Longburn today. Read more »

News from NZ Police
A forestry worker died after a tree fell on him in a forest north of Napier this afternoon. Read more »

News from NZ Government
The Radio New Zealand Amendment Bill has been passed by Parliament. It ensures the iconic broadcaster is better equipped to meet the challenges and opportunities of a multi-media era, said Broadcasting Minister Amy Adams today. Read more »

News from ActionStation
ActionStation, Avaaz and Doing Our Bit today handed over a petition of 20,546 signatures calling on the Minister of Immigration Michael Woodhouse to double New Zealand’s refugee quota. The organisations are calling for the refugee quota to be doubled after 29 years with no increase. The petitions coincides with Cabinet preparing to make a decision about the refugee quota. Read more »

News from Bayleys
New Zealand’s oldest purpose-built police station, which is an historic Wellington landmark, has been placed for sale for the first time on the open market. Read more »

News from Embassy of France
On 25 April, France will launch an architectural competition in New Zealand which will see the winning team commissioned to design the French memorial to be inaugurated at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park in Wellington by November 2018. Read more »

Press Release – Wellington Repertory Theatre
Wellington Repertory Theatre presents Joseph Kesselring’s Arsenic and Old Lace,
directed by Rob Ormsby. First staged on Broadway in 1941, the play remains one of the most popular plays for professional and amateur theatre groups around the world. Read more »

This is the water damaged flat HNZ left tenant in for two years with no power after fixing upstairs and neighboring pic.twitter.com/7L4TiZ65zT

— Trevor Mallard (@TrevorMallard) March 31, 2016

News from NZ Labour Party
Housing NZ has totally flawed priorities when it can let a man with an intellectual disability live in a flat without power because of water damage for two years, but require tenancy managers to approve paddling pools, Labour’s MP for Hutt South Trevor Mallard says. Read more »

Press Release – Bartercard
An exciting new technology is about to hit the streets of Wellington. Read more »

Press Release – Wellington Thai Festival
Wellington’s Waterfront will offer the sights, tastes and sounds of Thailand on April 9 and 10. Read more »

Press Release – The Town Centre

The Town Centre presents a double bill of feminist performance art by two leading forces in the Auckland theatre scene. TITLED by Nisha Madhan and If There’s Not Dancing at The Revolution, I’m Not Coming by Julia Croft both premiered in Auckland in 2015 to sell-out houses and critical acclaim. In April they will stage a takeover of Bats Theatre in Wellington bringing their bold, provocative and unapologetically political agendas with them. Read more »

Press Release – Elephant Publicity
Be Here Now – the Andy Whitfield Story opens the 11th Documentary Edge International Film Festival (Doc Edge), on Wednesday 4th May in Wellington. A powerful and intimate love story, the documentary follows the fight of Spartacus star Andy Whitfield and his charismatic wife Vashti against his cancer diagnosis. Read more »

by Lindsay Shelton
With all the millions of dollars that’s been spent on First World War commemorations – replicas, models, re-creations, memorials, parades, light shows, landscaping, and so on – it’s appalling that no money has been allocated to ensure the survival of a real piece of our wartime history. Read more »

Photo: Alison Dangerfield

Press Release – New Zealand Defence Force
Containers are to be placed near a building on New Zealand Defence Force land in Wellington to help keep the public safe in the event of a significant earthquake. Read more »

News from NZ Police
Police were this morning called to a crash in Ngaio where a vehicle had driven off the side of a bank on Waikowhai Street. Read more »

News from NZ Police
Police say that although most motorists’ behaviour on the Wellington network has been generally good despite recent road works in the Kapiti area, some road users are not playing by the rules. Read more »

Press Release – Pyrios
“We’d outgrown the name Agile and broadened the services that defined our past success.” Pyrios CEO Robyn O’Reilly Read more »