A former Victoria University student who felt unsafe on city streets has developed a smartphone app that keeps tabs on its user in dangerous situations.

Megan Singleton stays conveniently central in her search for some of Wellington's finest offerings.

A man's body has been found at Queen Elizabeth park on the Kapiti Coast.

Profilers say the killer of Wellington woman Mei Fan was a meticulous planner. Police have still to catch whoever stabbed the mother of two to death in her Miramar home four months ago.

A drunk teenager's deadly eight-storey fall from a Wellington apartment building has prompted a warning for suburban youths to be aware of the risks of high-rise buildings.

Audiences are wowed in New Zealand’s cultural hotspot, writes Sarah Lang.

Frolic at Paekakariki for a perfect holiday, writes Elisabeth Easther.

Slain intellectually disabled woman Mary Donnelly always maintained a childlike innocence about the world and never lost sight of her dreams, her sister says.

A 16km expressway north of Wellington has had resource consent granted by a Board of Inquiry.

An 89-year-old man has been sentenced to home detention on more than 40 counts of historical child sex abuse.

A diving incident near Wellington has claimed the life of a man in his early thirties.

One person was seriously injured when a car crashed into a powerpole in Wellington early this morning.

A 49-year-old boatie believed to be dead after falling off a boat at the mouth of the Hutt River has been identified as Uikilifi Peniamina.

The search for the body of a 49-year-old Wellington boatie is focused on the eastern coast of Wellington Harbour.

A search has resumed for a man who fell off a boat in Wellington Harbour yesterday afternoon.