Police are hunting for two men after the Bellevue Gardens Establishment in Lower Hutt was held up just after 10pm last night.

A man has been arrested following an Armed Offenders Squad call out in Lower Hutt last week.

An armed offender is on the loose after shooting a man in a Lower Hutt address, leaving him with serious injuries, early this morning.

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 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".

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

A Lower Hutt man has been arrested after a video of a racist rant on a Wellington bus against two young men who appeared to be Muslim was published online.

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.

The hunt is continuing tonight for a prisoner who escaped from hospital on Friday 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.