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.

Site enabling works on New Zealand's biggest new infrastructure project, Transmission Gully, begin this month.

Our capital city has more restaurants and cafes per capita than New York. Delaney Mes tries as many of them as she can.

Winston Aldworth and his family check into a Wellington hotel with capital views of the harbour.

While there was an appetite for a lower North Island super city, the Wairarapa should not be included within it, Wellington's Mayor Celia Wade-Brown told the Local Government Commission today.

A Lower Hutt man who was caught on film verbally attacking two foreign men on a Wellington bus last week says he is "not a racist".

The man accused of killing an Upper Hutt mother and injuring three others in an axe attack late last year has pleaded not guilty to all the charges.

There is "sympathy" and "forgiveness" within the Muslim community for a man who was caught on camera making offensive comments, a religious expert says.

Rusty wires caused a lifeboat to fall from its sling on a cargo ship in Wellington Harbour, injuring a crewman.

Three teenagers have been identified as those involved in a train surfing incident in Upper Hutt on March 8.

A teenager who admitted to carrying out a vicious attack on an elderly couple while they slept last year has been sentenced to almost six years in prison.

Fog in the capital is causing disruptions to flights this morning.

Another video has surfaced on social media showing two people "train surfing" off the back of a Wellington commuter train.

Police are scanning CCTV footage in an effort to identify the two teenagers who were caught on camera hanging off the back of a commuter train yesterday.

Police are investigating dramatic footage of two teenagers hanging from the back of a speeding train in Wellington.