Thirty classic cars are up for grabs this weekend, in a major sale of a private collection.

A Kapiti Coast school has been evacuated to a nearby community hall following a bomb scare, which the principal says was sparked by an email from overseas.

The man who died in a crash between a car and truck in Waikanae on Friday was the father of a boy who died in a car crash eight years ago.

A Waikanae man who abandoned four kittens on the side of the road in the middle of winter has been disqualified from owning cats for

Firefighters in the wider Wellington area were kept busy today with two car accidents.

A stoush over a drone came to a head in a quiet reserve leaving one man in the dock and another's flying craft in tatters.

Vodafone customers that lost access to the internet yesterday after a power outage in Waikanae have been reconnected to the network, only to have it drop off again.

A man has been left with a gash to his forehead, after what police are calling a "nasty" assault at the Waikanae Train Station.

Early morning commuters had their travel disrupted badly after a diesel locomotive fire at Paekakariki this morning.

A man who jumped from a cliff towards a water hole and missed has been airlifted to hospital with serious injuries.

An attack on an elderly man on the Kapiti Coast is being described as brutal by police.

It is miraculous a driver who crashed into three parked cars before crossing four lanes of State Highway One, drove through trees and onto a railway track is not injured, police say.

Images from the scene of the tornado which hit 1.5km north of Waikanae.

The son of former Wellington mayor Kerry Prendergast has passed away this morning 10 days after being seriously injured in a riding accident.

A grandmother jailed after driving at nearly twice the legal alcohol limit and killing cyclist Frank van Kampen on the Kapiti Coast has been released on parole after serving just half of her sentence.