A bus driver was taken to hospital with "superficial head injuries" after three people tried to rob him in Upper Hutt this morning.

A Hutt City councillor has beaten out her closest rival by only six votes.

Lower Hutt Police have found the old model BMW sought in connection to an armed robbery in Taita last night.

A couple have spoken of their fear when armed robbers came into their takeaway shop just before closing.

Police have found a Lower Hutt man who went missing earlier today.

A Lower Hutt man has been arrested in connection with an assault which occurred last week in Stokes Valley. Hutt Valley Police arrested

A police officer was injured in Lower Hutt early today while trying to stop an alleged offender fleeing.

A man is in a critical condition in Wellington Hospital's ICU after a stabbing last night.

A man is in a critical condition after being stabbed at a 21st birthday party in Lower Hutt.

Anyone who helps a man who fled a Lower Hutt court and assaulted a police prosecutor they may face criminal charges, police warn. Sabbath

Police continue to hunt for a man who knocked a police prosecutor unconscious after jumping the dock at the Lower Hutt District Court.

A police prosecutor was knocked unconscious when he chased down a man who jumped the dock and escaped the Lower Hutt District Court today.

The man has been moved from the Lower Hutt suburb of Maungaraki to a residence on the grounds of Christchurch Men's Prison.

A man has denied ramming a police car with a ute in Marton. Christopher Malcolm Duane Muir, 35, pleaded not guilty in the Whanganui

Police are seeking a Hutt Valley patched Mongrel Mob member wanted to arrest.

Police have made another appeal for information about a savage street attack in Lower Hutt as a 21-year-old man lies in hospital, unlikely to survive.

A 27-year-old man has been arrested for the assault of another man at a Lower Hutt party that has left him in critical condition

A driver who sped away after failing to stop for police in Lower Hutt has crashed into a power pole and fled on foot.

Ann-Marie Shelley turned to Catholic priest Peter Joseph Hercock for help. Instead, he raped her.

Police are hunting for two men after the Bellevue Gardens Establishment in Lower Hutt was held up just after 10pm last night.

A man has been arrested following an Armed Offenders Squad call out in Lower Hutt last week.

An armed offender is on the loose after shooting a man in a Lower Hutt address, leaving him with serious injuries, early this morning.

There was no suspicious activity behind a fatal house fire in which one man died, police said today.

Firefighters called to a fire at a set of flats in Petone last night arrived to found a body inside.

A man is recovering in hospital and another is due to appear in court after a stabbing in Lower Hutt last night.

Wellington's wild weather has claimed the life of an elderly man, whose car became submerged as raging floodwaters rose across the area.

A Lower Hutt man who was caught on film verbally attacking two foreign-looking men on a Wellington bus has been fined and ordered to do community work.

A woman has been sentenced to home detention and community work in relation to the death of a Lower Hutt man earlier this year.

A senior train driver who crashed into a concrete block with a trainload of passengers and later tested positive for cannabis has lost his last appeal to win his job back.