A driver who sped away after failing to stop for police in Lower Hutt has crashed into a power pole and fled on foot.

A firefighter has been injured dealing with a blaze at a state house in Lower Hutt last night.

Police, firefighters and ambulance were called to Manor Park, Lower Hutt after the incident shortly after 6pm.

Ann-Marie Shelley turned to Catholic priest Peter Joseph Hercock for help. Instead, he raped her.

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.

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 woman has been sentenced to home detention and community work in relation to the death of a Lower Hutt man earlier this year.

A senior train driver who crashed into a concrete block with a trainload of passengers and later tested positive for cannabis has lost his last appeal to win his job back.

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 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.