The Real Estate Agents Authority has laid charges against a Wellington property company for allegedly buying and selling property without a licence.

A Wellington coroner has recommended a local church overhaul its carpark layout after a second child was killed in the L-shaped lot.

Christchurch's Boxing Day aftershocks and the recent wet weather have seen more than 1000 claims lodged with the Earthquake Commission.

A 19-year-old man has been arrested after a string of aggravated robberies at Lower Hutt shops this morning.

A post-mortem has found a teen whose body was found in a Wainuiomata creek last night drowned.

Police are treating the death of a teenager whose body was found in a creek in Wainuiomata as unexplained.

Injured motorcyclists were airlifted to hospitals in two separate incidents in the lower North Island today.

Wellington mayor Kerry Prendergast has a nervous two-day wait to see if she holds her position.

A post-mortem examination will today be carried out on the body of a young man found dead near a Hutt Valley stream.