A police investigation into the discovery of a man's body in Wainuiomata has been upgraded to homicide.

Police are investigating after the body of a man was found at a house in Wainuiomata, Wellington, yesterday.

Three men are facing charges after taking a digger for a joy-ride in the Lower Hutt suburb of Wainuiomata early today.

Two men are facing assault charges after a late-night fight outside a Lower Hutt service station left a man in a critical condition.

Hurrah for the safety of a nine-year old Wainuiomata girl who spent the night up a tree after becoming lost and was reunited with her family the following day.

Fire crews battling a scrub fire have evacuated residents at Mangatoetoe.

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.

Janet Moses died as a result of accidental drowning by way of manslaughter, Wellington regional coroner Ian Smith has found.