Petone will feel the greatest impact, with a stormwater system already under pressure.

Adored son and brother William Jones was fit and healthy before the sudden illness.

Flooding is possible at the bottom of the North Island as a fierce weather system stalls.

Some people felt they couldn't leave their homes while the boy racers were there.

“We want to make it easier and cheaper to build.”

Bart the dog found the drugs concealed in a pair of shoes.

Could Wellington, Lower Hutt, Upper Hutt, and Porirua councils become one?

Wilson-Taylor has more than 320 winners to his name.

Police are looking for Bryce Studd-Proctor, 35, who has a warrant to arrest.

The tremor hit just before 5.20am.

Two students involved in an attack on another student have been excluded from school.

Bex Chapman hopes sharing her story can inspire others on the journey to recovery.

The pair were reported missing at 2am, and the search began at 4.30 this morning.

"Manipulative" Damon Exley had escaped from custody six times before, review says.

A state housing agency boss says Kāinga Ora has heard nothing from the lobby group.

The incident followed a late-night argument over drugs and alcohol.

Buckets of rain, large hail, surface flooding and a tornado battered Wellington yesterday.

This Upper Hutt mum turned her life around for her daughter.

The woman strenuously denied the allegations, saying she only slapped the girls.

The winner said he screamed for joy before falling to his knees and crying.

Father of five mourned after alleged Upper Hutt murder.

Police responded after a person was reported seriously injured at an Akatarawa Rd address.

The principal of Ōmāhu School wrote a song in te reo about Cyclone Gabrielle to share.

The woman flatly denied beating the girls with wooden rods, a chair and a dog collar.

The driver is assisting police.

The girl had just told the social worker, a friend from church, she was being beaten.

The girl suffered an "ugly" head wound after one of the alleged incidents.