A public meeting is planned to allow locals to raise their concerns.

A Whitby father is grateful to his neighbours for helping him foil a kidnap bid.

Father told police a man lunged at him and tried to snatch his 3-year-old daughter.

Nick Leggett says he has decided against running for Parliament in Mana.

A child has head injuries after being hit by a car at a pedestrian crossing in Porirua.

The five Upper Hutt teenagers had been uncontactable to family members since last night.

Porirua's mayor stresses the shooting incident "had nothing to do with Porirua".

The man fatally shot by police in Porirua on Sunday morning has been named.

The police union is hitting back against suggestions a Taser could have been used instead of a gun.

Closing the Cadbury factory will hit Dunedin hard, but what does it say about the health of NZ manufacturing?

A yacht fire left a person suffering smoke inhalation this morning.

Police in Wellington are searching for a man seen riding a dirt bike while carrying a baby on his back.

The case of a 14-year-old autistic boy being held in police cells overnight because there was nowhere else to put him is "appalling", an autism advocate says.

WATCH: An extreme water daredevil has gone over the Huka Falls on a bodyboard, an act that has been described as "reckless and irresponsible".

Two lucky Lotto players are each half a million dollars richer after tonight's Lotto draw.

A trio of trees have toppled power lines and led to a Porirua road being closed as repair crew arrive to clear the scene.

Nearly 1000 cats have found themselves in predicaments needing rescue by fire crews in the last five years.

The Porirua community is rallying around their local Santa after his sack was stolen just weeks before Christmas.

A man who pulled a gun on a police officer remains on the run.

A 40-year-old man has been sentenced to 11 years and six months jail after "exceptionally cruel offending".

A man guilty of a shocking sex attack will today learn if he faces preventive detention.

A free service has been set up to ease the Christmas shopping horror.

A former Labour member spurned for being "right wing" by Labour leader Andrew Little has signed up with National.

Wellington Police have arrested seven people over a city-based methamphetamine dealing syndicate.

Wellington police have found an autistic 19-year-old, who was reported missing earlier this evening, "safe and sound in Paraparaumu".

Videos have emerged of a police pursuit in Porirua which ends in the driver getting out of his vehicle and running on foot.

Wellington and Kapiti drivers should expect delays due to ongoing repairs and clean-up from slips and flooding, the NZTA warns.

The Prime Minister's bodyguards directed traffic around a high rise close to collapse, slips caused traffic chaos and homes were evacuated in capital.

Traffic leaving central Wellington is gridlocked as commuters scramble to leave the rain-battered city.

A number of schools have been closed due to flooding, affecting some students due to sit exams after afternoon.