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.

A man is in a critical condition in Wellington Hospital's ICU after a stabbing last night.

The man who died in a crash between a car and truck in Waikanae on Friday was the father of a boy who died in a car crash eight years ago.

Tristram Clayton sits down with current Wellington Mayor Celia Wade-Brown.

Tristram talks to Political Reporter Isaac Davison about the Corrections blunder that has seen possibly thousands of inmates incarcerated for too long.

A firefighter suffered minor burns while battling a housefire in Wainuiomata this afternoon. Fire Service shift manager David Meikle

State Highway 1 has reopened after a fatal crash between a car and a truck.

Wellingtonians need a mayor who can listen, fairly balance issues, and have a bit of a laugh.

A Waikanae man who abandoned four kittens on the side of the road in the middle of winter has been disqualified from owning cats for

Cloe Willetts explores the art, tastes, sounds and scenery of the Kapiti Coast.

Police are appealing for information about the whereabouts of a teenage girl who has not been seen for the last three months.

Sir Peter Jackson is in talks to bring augmented reality and digital storytelling to Matiu-Somes Island in Wellington Harbour.

A wet Saturday proved troublesome for those on water and land in the North Island yesterday.

Sabbath Mohi was arrested in Lower Hutt without incident this afternoon, police said.

A man has died at a Carterton homekill business this morning after a suspected medical event.

Parked car damaged after it was shot at in Hutt Valley overnight.

Emergency services are waiting for a power authority to arrive before they can rescue a person from a car that crashed into a pole in Porirua.

It may have got a bit nippy overnight, but the MetService says temperatures across the country will now get back to normal after recent chilly weather.

A man in his 70s who is alleged to have defrauded woman in Whanganui is still on the run after failing to appear in court.

Police continue to hunt for a man who knocked a police prosecutor unconscious after jumping the dock at the Lower Hutt District Court.

A woman has died following a crash on State Highway 2 at the intersection of Hebden Crescent, Lower Hutt.

A police prosecutor was knocked unconscious when he chased down a man who jumped the dock and escaped the Lower Hutt District Court today.

Volunteers and council staff finished painting over a Wellington water tank, only for it to be covered in graffiti later the same day.

Firefighters in the wider Wellington area were kept busy today with two car accidents.

Victoria Clark stays at Sofitel Wellington, the capital city's first brand new hotel in 15 years, where the surrounds are luxuriously, romantically French.

Sixty brands serving 300 beers: what 40-something wouldn't be in heaven, asks Jesse Mulligan.

More than half of New Zealand's 41,000 homeless people are now families with children, according to new Otago University research.

A Wellington man serving a life sentence for brutally murdering his estranged wife is appealing both his conviction and sentence.

Hutt City Mayor Ray Wallace has refuted claims that neighbours who pushed for a paedophile to be removed from their community acted hysterically.