Changes undermine value of national bowel screening programme, expert says.

Two Jetstar flights from Wellington to Auckland have been cancelled today, frustrating dozens of passengers.

A car rolled down the street after a Wellington party last night and hit several people.

EXCLUSIVE: Mother hits out at Wellington primary school's "dirty little secret": "I'm horrified a school would do that, my son is petrified of the dark."

Several crashes around the country today, three dead, at least five injured.

State Highway 1 is now open again following a car crash on the Kapiti Coast this afternoon.

Watch NZH Focus: NZ police are urging calm over creepy clown sightings as a sociologist explains the "social panic" that can give rise to such epidemics.

The inaugural Black Power Film Festival offers wine, appetisers and discussion - perhaps not the first things most people would associate with a gang.

A Wellington boy was worried outgoing mayor Celia Wade-Brown would miss her mayoral chains - so he made her some new ones out of chocolate

Identified as having gender dysphoria, 6-year-old Ollie Maihi has "blossomed" since transitioning into a girl.

A cop has been charged with dangerous driving following a Wellington waterfront pursuit.

Seven suspicious fires have been lit across Wellington in a busy night for police and firefighters.

A Lower Hutt man has been arrested in connection with an assault which occurred last week in Stokes Valley. Hutt Valley Police arrested

Children were caught setting fire to astro turf at a South Wairarapa school this afternoon.

Guards will be posted at Wellington's Botanic Garden after a Friday night party left a WW1 memorial sculpture damaged and litter and broken glass strewn around Remembrance Ridge.

Train passengers on the Wellington region's Hutt Valley and Kapiti lines will have 1000 more seats to choose from in morning and afternoon

More than 4080 people have reported feeling the 4.4 magnitude quake which has hit northwest of Wellington.

A male has been taken to hospital in a serious condition after an incident on Wellington Urban Motorway's Terrace off-ramp. Police

Join Tristram Clayton as he discovers one of Wellington's best kept secrets, now yours to own!

Several international flights and a local helicopter have been targeted by a laser at Auckland Airport.

A man has suffered burns after causing a "steam explosion" in Upper Hutt. Police attended the incident at the request of ambulance

Health authorities are considering plans to move mental health patient Ashley Peacock, to the dismay of his parents.

A Wellington postie has dumped 3000 mail items, including 300 voting papers.

It was such a relief when I saw the paramedic running down the track.Alice Bradley, Paraparaumu. When Alice Bradley lay bleeding

NZ Rugby Union officials have apologised to the four young people who were assaulted by rising rugby star Losi Filipo.

COMMENT: Given all the rugby union claim to have learnt, they should be exemplars of good behaviour and doing what is right.

A police officer was injured in Lower Hutt early today while trying to stop an alleged offender fleeing.

Lyall Bay Surf and Lifesaving Club house has been jazzed up with a mural - less than a week before it's due to be demolished.

The Solicitor General is "looking into" a judge's decision to issue a young rugby player a discharge without conviction for assaulting four people.

A female pedestrian hit by a car in Wellington last night is recovering in hospital.