A Kiwi extradited to Brisbane on child porn charges will now appear in court in June.

About 400 people joined in the protest during the weekend in Lower Hutt.

The boys built a shelter to keep warm over night and chewed on ferns for nourishment

The boys were able to call for help using their mobile phones.

A search is underway for two teenagers who became lost on a bushwalk near Lower Hutt.

Church members will be camping out on vacant Housing NZ property over the weekend.

The search for a missing 78-year-old Wellington man continues.

Scarlett Johansson really, really likes Zany Zeus cakes.

Vet thousands of dollars in debt for treating animals when their owners couldn't pay.

An American diplomat wanted by police after an incident in Lower Hutt is unlikely to face trial.

Lower Hutt's Queensgate Shopping Centre will reopen fully next month while earthquake repairs continue.

Emergency services are on the scene at a crash on Wainuiomata Hill in Lower Hutt. A Fire Service shift manager said the car had crashed

A member of the public has come forward as the likely owner of an inflatable raft found in the Hutt River.

The alleged sexual assault occurred on the footpath outside the Taita shops on High St, police say.

Driver trapped in cab after live wires come down on a truck.

Rubbish truck crashes into Wellington home.

Police name drowning victim.

Taiari Hawkins was last seen at 10pm yesterday after possibly visiting a friends house.

The teenager who drowned after he was swept into the flooded Hutt River on Thursday was trying to rescue his friend.

Chlorine has been added to Lower Hutt's water supply, in another E. coli scare.

Motorists face flooding and road closures across the Wellington and Wairarapa regions this morning.

Owners of boutique cinemas in Wellington have seen their business double since the November earthquake knocked two major cinemas out of action.

Police have used CCTV footage to identify two vehicles of interest in the case of murdered Upper Hutt woman Lois Tolley.

Police were unable to find the group of three or four males driving a black car up and down the road.

The site where a nine-storey office block once stood on Wellington's Molesworth St is hardly recognisable.

The elderly Wellington grandmother missing after going for a run yesterday has been found.

Road toll now equal to last summer's following death of motorcyclist.

Four fire crews are battling a blaze in the Lower Hutt suburb of Stokes Valley.

There was a record downpour in Auckland, a tornado in Taranaki and "quake lights" above Wellington. Oh, and 2016 was likely also New Zealand's hottest year on record.