A taxi driver has been stabbed in Upper Hutt, leading to a search for two women whose images were caught on security camera footage in the cab.

Residents of an Upper Hutt house escaped safely today after a fire extensively damaged the property.

An Upper Hutt couple have been charged with child neglect after a 3-year-old girl was hospitalised with a leg so badly broken doctors considered amputating it.

A coroner says high visibility clothing should be compulsory for cyclists after the death of a senior police officer who was hit by a truck while riding his bike.

Two trailbikers missing in Upper Hutt last night used petrol from their bikes to build a fire so they could survive a wet night in the Akatarawa forest, police say.

A man has been arrested after allegedly assaulting a Wellington principal.

The victim of a home invasion who was forced to open a safe with a shotgun to her head says she has been sentenced to a life of always looking over her shoulder.

More than a dozen Upper Hutt schools will this afternoon take part in a "rolling haka" stretching for several kilometres along Upper Hutt streets.

A world-leading recycling facility that opened today in Upper Hutt will break down nappies into a safe, odourless compost instead of sending them to landfill.

Hutt Valley police have released dramatic shots of a liquor store staff member chasing a robber armed with a knife out of the store last week.

Two men charged with stealing thousands of dollars off a Hutt Valley couple in a 'horrifying' home invasion last year have been found guilty by a jury today.

Being seen with wads of cash doesn't make two men guilty of an armed home invasion, but the layering of evidence does, the Crown said in summing up the case today.

The mother of a teenager found dead in her bed has told an inquest that her daughter's physical and mental health deteriorated sharply