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.

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.

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.

Hollywood actress Scarlett Johannson is in for some late nights as her latest film begins shooting scenes in Wellington's CBD.

Two people were trapped in a car that drove several metres down a bank in North of Wellington.

A serious crash has closed State Highway 1 at Pukerua Bay north of Wellington this morning.

Police are currently looking for Stephen Christopher Rowe, who has a warrant to be recalled to prison.

The WCC has stopped providing free recycling bags to 800 homes after they were found to have "ongoing rubbish offences".

Police say nine properties have been searched for evidence of P production and supply, and money laundering involving the Head Hunters gang.

Wellington's award-winning Tsunami Blue Lines Project has caught the eye of emergency management offices in the United States.

A scrub fire in Upper Hutt has forced homes to be evacuated, a firefighter to be hospitalised and roads to be closed.

A staff member at the police college near Wellington has died after getting into difficulty in the swimming pool this afternoon.

A handful of Upper Hutt city councillors are in the firing line after making the city a TPP-free zone.