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.

A relative of Pera Smiler's who didn't wish to be named said: "It's so sad how things have turned out."

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.

Slain intellectually disabled woman Mary Donnelly always maintained a childlike innocence about the world and never lost sight of her dreams, her sister says.

One person has died in a house fire in Upper Hutt overnight. Police said emergency services were called to the blaze in Trentham, Upper Hutt shortly after 8pm.

Police are seeking information on two cars believed to be involved in an aggravated robbery.

The partner of a Wairarapa woman who neglected her daughter's badly broken leg for days has been sentenced to 10 months of home detention.

A Wairarapa woman who took days to seek help for her 3-year-old daughter's broken leg has been sentenced to two years and three months in prison.

A Hutt Valley taxi driver was stabbed in the head "out of nowhere" after he refused to give two women a free ride early today.

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.