The Hawke's Bay District Health Board has confirmed that the man diagnosed with Guillain-Barre Syndrome in Wellington Hospital on

Two people have been arrested after meth, cannabis and a range of stolen property was recovered by police from addresses in Wellington and Hutt Valley.

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

Cloe Willetts explores the art, tastes, sounds and scenery of the Kapiti Coast.

Police are appealing for information about the whereabouts of a teenage girl who has not been seen for the last three months.

Sir Peter Jackson is in talks to bring augmented reality and digital storytelling to Matiu-Somes Island in Wellington Harbour.

A wet Saturday proved troublesome for those on water and land in the North Island yesterday.

Sabbath Mohi was arrested in Lower Hutt without incident this afternoon, police said.

A man has died at a Carterton homekill business this morning after a suspected medical event.

Prime Minister John Key could be called as a witness to confirm whether he offered to pay a Wellington man's $82 dinner bill at a Wellington restaurant.

Six kiwi eggs have been flown to a warm new home ready for hatching.

It may have got a bit nippy overnight, but the MetService says temperatures across the country will now get back to normal after recent chilly weather.

A man in his 70s who is alleged to have defrauded woman in Whanganui is still on the run after failing to appear in court.

Police continue to hunt for a man who knocked a police prosecutor unconscious after jumping the dock at the Lower Hutt District Court.

A woman has died following a crash on State Highway 2 at the intersection of Hebden Crescent, Lower Hutt.

A police prosecutor was knocked unconscious when he chased down a man who jumped the dock and escaped the Lower Hutt District Court today.

Volunteers and council staff finished painting over a Wellington water tank, only for it to be covered in graffiti later the same day.

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

More than half of New Zealand's 41,000 homeless people are now families with children, according to new Otago University research.

A Wellington man serving a life sentence for brutally murdering his estranged wife is appealing both his conviction and sentence.

Hutt City Mayor Ray Wallace has refuted claims that neighbours who pushed for a paedophile to be removed from their community acted hysterically.

Search and rescue teams have suspended their search for the man missing in Tararua Forest Park overnight.

A man has been a stabbed during a violent assault in Wainuiomata last night.

Teenage girl crushed by rolling car may never fully recover.

A shabby ute is being used to protest suburban snobbery just north of Wellington.

Think you have bad neighbours? This woman got an anonymous note about out two 'shabby' cars in her driveway.

A couple who got engaged mid-flight were greeted with a spectacular water arch thanks to the kind staff at Wellington Airport. The

A man has denied ramming a police car with a ute in Marton. Christopher Malcolm Duane Muir, 35, pleaded not guilty in the Whanganui

A group of people accused of stealing from a Petone tobacco company have appeared in court.

A former tax agent who didn't pay his clients' tax to the Inland Revenue Department and falsified 250 GST and income tax returns in