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Fire damages Lower Hutt home
Emergency services were called to a "well involved" fire in a two-storey Penrose Street house at about 1pm today.
Emergency services were called to a "well involved" fire in a two-storey Penrose Street house at about 1pm today.
A man who fled police then clambered up onto the roof of an Upper Hutt chicken restaurant has been brought down safely.
A woman managed to fight off a man who dragged her into the bushes of a Wellington park and assaulted her this evening.
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck south-east of Wellington.
Marking World Refugee Day, the Herald spoke to a refugee family who escaped from Laos to New Zealand 33 years ago, risking their lives to do so.
The sudden death of one of Wairarapa's most colourful characters and community leaders has shocked and saddened the district.
Upper Hutt College was swindled out of $375,000 by its former executive officer Donald Hancox, who today pleaded guilty to 10 fraud charges.
The kayaker thought to be missing off Wellington's south coast in bitterly cold and wet conditions was, in fact, at home.
A Wellington man missing for two days was this morning found safe and well.
Emergency Services have successfully rescued a horse trapped by dangerously rising floodwaters in the Otaki River.
Selling alcohol to under-age buyer costs racing club a day of booze sales.
Lisa Fischer has toured New Zealand as backing vocalist to some of the world's biggest musical acts - notably the Rolling Stones - but when she returns this month, it will be an altogether different experience.
Police have found a Wellington woman and her 6-year-old daughter who were reported missing last night.
An employee at a local shop who didn't want to be named, said the woman came to the store after she was attacked.
20-year-old Caitlyn Bird was last seen in Glover Park, Wellington, on Monday 9 May.
The boy hit the worker when fleeing police in the middle of the day on April 18.
The driver, a 42-year-old male, is to appear in Wellington District Court later today on a charge of failing to stop and a number of unrelated charges.
A 15-year-old girl has been sexually assaulted after getting off a bus in a Wellington suburb.
Allan Probert has asked the city council to allow Wellingtonians to take their dogs on buses and trains.
The 58-year-old also pleaded not guilty to a charge of driving over the limit and assault using a vehicle as a weapon.
A man was airlifted to Wellington Hospital with serious injuries after a northbound truck crossed the centre line and collided with a tree.
A video posted online of a Wellington policeman playing a busker's guitar on Courtenay Place has been viewed more than 50,000 times.
Wellington Police are investigating six reports of paint being thrown on cars and people in the central city last night.
Steven Kells, 26, described as Maori and thinly built, should not be approached, police said.
Shortly before 7am there was a three-car crash before the Ngauranga interchange on the southbound section of the highway.
Police are investigating the "aggravated robbery" of a bank on Jackson St, Petone, about midday.