Veteran corporate raider Ron Brierley has lifted his stake in Kirkcaldie & Stains ahead store's payday from David Jones.

The waiting masses watched reverently as ex-All Black Jerry Collins - the son of Porirua - was carried out on to the pitch at his home ground for the final time.

Bush lovers, art enthusiasts and beach babes alike will be taken with the Kapiti locale.

Police are yet to make an arrest after a man was seriously assaulted in Wellington last night.

Prominent Wellington hotelier Chris Parkin has sold the Museum Hotel for $28.5 million.

Wellington and Northland will not be reorganised into "super cities" but Hawkes Bay will follow in Auckland's footsteps.

Police are on the hunt for a Porirua man after they seized more than $130,000 of methamphetamine in a drug bust.

A transgender woman who stabbed a man has spoken of how inmates were more supportive than members of the community.

Whittaker's have stopped production of a new chocolate flavour as they investigate a report that a wasp was found embedded in a block.

A man has been left with a gash to his forehead, after what police are calling a "nasty" assault at the Waikanae Train Station.

Human remains found in the Wellington region earlier this year have been confirmed to be those of a man who went missing in March 1986.

Firefighters and police were responding to reports of surface flooding in and around Levin last night, just a day after a disastrous deluge in Wellington.

Aucklanders have had to welcome both Prince Harry and cold winds and rain to the city today.

Police said Dr Paul Hill's car was found underwater in Bracken St, Petone, with the keys still in the ignition.

A Lower Hutt man who was caught on film verbally attacking two foreign-looking men on a Wellington bus has been fined and ordered to do community work.

Early morning commuters had their travel disrupted badly after a diesel locomotive fire at Paekakariki this morning.

The man who tore women's teeth out with pliers while he was having sex with them believed there was consent and thought he was helping them, a court has heard.

Oscar-winning director's model is so detailed it shows colonel who defied his commanders and a fearless corporal who braved enemy gunfire to lay telephone wire.

Elisabeth Easther enjoys the serenity at a boutique hotel in the capital.

Philip Hansen has plead not guilty to 11 charges, including assault and sex charges, some of which involved using pliers to pull out teeth from three separate victims.

The trial of a man who has been accused of tearing women’s teeth out with pliers while having sex with them, began at Wellington District Court today.

Te Papa never does anything by halves. The new exhibit, 'Gallipoli: The Scale of Our War', to mark the centenary of the Gallipoli landing, is an extraordinary event.

Thousands of people lined the streets of Wellington today for the Anzac Street Parade which weaved its way through the city around lunchtime.