Motorists stranded in flooding
A string of motorists is stranded on State Highway 2 as authorities across the Wellington region prepare for evacuations.
A string of motorists is stranded on State Highway 2 as authorities across the Wellington region prepare for evacuations.
A bus driver was taken to hospital with "superficial head injuries" after three people tried to rob him in Upper Hutt this morning.
A Hutt City councillor has beaten out her closest rival by only six votes.
A man has suffered burns after causing a "steam explosion" in Upper Hutt. Police attended the incident at the request of ambulance
An 76-year-old woman with dementia is missing in Hutt Valley.
A former tax agent who didn't pay his clients' tax to the Inland Revenue Department and falsified 250 GST and income tax returns in
Upper Hutt College was swindled out of $375,000 by its former executive officer Donald Hancox, who today pleaded guilty to 10 fraud charges.
A man and woman, believed to be under the influence of alcohol, had to be rescued after the ute they were driving got stranded in the rapidly surging waters of the Hutt River.
Nineteen bulls on their way to the meatworks made a brief escape for freedom, after the trailer they were in rolled off the road in Upper Hutt.
A woman died after a car and ute collided in Upper Hutt this evening.
A scrub fire in Upper Hutt has forced homes to be evacuated, a firefighter to be hospitalised and roads to be closed.
A handful of Upper Hutt city councillors are in the firing line after making the city a TPP-free zone.
A new Upper Hutt bridge will take six months to rebuild after the collapse of the old one left many residents stranded overnight.
A motorcyclist who died in Upper Hutt on Wednesday has been named by police as 37-year-old Koro Robin Peachey of Wainuiomata.
The crash happened on Fergusson Drive, near St Patrick's College, about 2.20pm.
An Upper Hutt man says he will never forgive the man he considered his best friend after he killed his mother in a frenzied and brutal axe attack.
A major slip has closed a road in Upper Hutt for the rest of the day and probably into tomorrow.
A man shot dead after an armed police stand-off this week was "in a bad place" but did not want to hurt anyone, his cousin says.
Wellington's wild weather has claimed the life of an elderly man, whose car became submerged as raging floodwaters rose across the area.
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.
Three teenagers have been identified as those involved in a train surfing incident in Upper Hutt on March 8.
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.
The victims of a violent axe attack that took place in Wellington last year have had their name suppression lifted, after a man appeared in court today.
A missing jacket and sightings of a vehicle are part of the focus by police investigating the axe murder of a woman in Upper Hutt last Thursday.
The man charged with the axe murder of an Upper Hutt woman has been named. One woman said the violent incident was a huge shock to the quiet community.
One person is seriously injured and three others have moderate injuries after a car crossed the centre line and crashed into another vehicle in Upper Hutt.