There was no suspicious activity behind a fatal house fire in which one man died, police said today.

Firefighters called to a fire at a set of flats in Petone last night arrived to found a body inside.

A man is recovering in hospital and another is due to appear in court after a stabbing in Lower Hutt last night.

Wellington's wild weather has claimed the life of an elderly man, whose car became submerged as raging floodwaters rose across the area.

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.

A woman has been sentenced to home detention and community work in relation to the death of a Lower Hutt man earlier this year.

A senior train driver who crashed into a concrete block with a trainload of passengers and later tested positive for cannabis has lost his last appeal to win his job back.

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".

Isaac Young's parents could not believe a small lump on their young son's leg was melanoma. The resulting biopsies, surgeries and skin graft are more than any child should have to endure.

A young family are devastated after a major house fire wrecked their suburban home this afternoon.

A third person has been arrested and charged in relation to the the death of a man in Taita, Lower Hutt last week.

A man has been arrested and charged after a 39-year-old man was killed in Lower Hutt last night.

A remand prisoner at Rimutaka, escaped from Hutt Hospital last night.

A train hit a pole in Lower Hutt last night and brought down overhead cables at the Ava Station.

Police investigating the mysterious murder of Lower Hutt man Matthew Stevens are looking for a shoe missing from his body.

A man found guilty of murdering a hairdresser he thought was a love rival has been sentenced to life imprisonment with no chance of parole for 10 years.

An man armed with a knife robbed a Lower Hutt dairy yesterday, police say.

Mental health services at two district health boards have been criticised in coroner's rulings after it was found administrative errors played a role in two self-inflicted deaths.

Labour leader David Cunliffe says he’s sorry that he’s a man because men commit most family violence but Prime Minister John Key says the comment is 'silly'.

David Cunliffe says Trevor Mallard's plan to resurrect and reintroduce the moa to Lower Hutt is "not going to fly".