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.

Emergency services were called to a house in Strathmore Ave, Strathmore Park at 1.15pm.

A woman died after a car and ute collided in Upper Hutt this evening.

The body of the man involved in a 26-hour armed stand-off in Wellington will be returned to Hawke's Bay today.

A Wellington jobseeker's unusual plea for work is getting attention on the streets -- and online.

Emergency services were called to Wellington's Stokes Valley Rd at about 12.53pm where a person was hit by a car.

Police were called to the Lower Hutt suburb of Naenae at 4.15pm, where they found the injured woman.

Tim Roxborogh enjoys some of the lesser-known sights of Wellington.

Banning beggars in the streets of Wellington or penalising passers-by who give money to those who beg is "dramatic", says a local councillor.

The trust will promote legal scholarship in all areas of the law, and the development of legal research, scholarship, writing and education.

A Wellington probation centre is making their staff feel safer with added security that includes panic alarms to alert police.

A serious crash has closed State Highway 1 at Pukerua Bay north of Wellington this morning.

Police are currently looking for Stephen Christopher Rowe, who has a warrant to be recalled to prison.

The WCC has stopped providing free recycling bags to 800 homes after they were found to have "ongoing rubbish offences".

Police say nine properties have been searched for evidence of P production and supply, and money laundering involving the Head Hunters gang.

Wellington's award-winning Tsunami Blue Lines Project has caught the eye of emergency management offices in the United States.

A scrub fire in Upper Hutt has forced homes to be evacuated, a firefighter to be hospitalised and roads to be closed.

A staff member at the police college near Wellington has died after getting into difficulty in the swimming pool this afternoon.

A handful of Upper Hutt city councillors are in the firing line after making the city a TPP-free zone.

The mystery behind the murder of Matthew Stevens. Phil Taylor revisits the crime scene.

The third and final person involved in the brutal murder of Matthew Stevens has been jailed for five years and one month.

A witness said in about five minutes the Silverstream McDonald's on Fergusson Drive was up in flames.