Two injured in Wellington house fire.

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.

Life in Wellington is about to get a little more magnifique come July.

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.

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.

There were plenty of ooohs and ahhhs at Wellington's Anzac dawn service today as four-week-old Rawiri Phillips attended in a handmade soldier uniform.

An eight-year prison sentence for the man who killed Virginia Ford won't be closure for the young student's family.

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.