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.

An employee at a local shop who didn't want to be named, said the woman came to the store after she was attacked.

Police, firefighters and ambulance were called to Manor Park, Lower Hutt after the incident shortly after 6pm.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.