Latest from Porirua

A teenager who admitted to carrying out a vicious attack on an elderly couple while they slept last year has been sentenced to almost six years in prison.

A teenager accused of a vicious attack on an elderly couple has still not entered a plea.

Neighbours tried to save a man who was trapped inside his burning home in Titahi Bay this morning, but were driven back by thick smoke and flames.

A jury in the case of a man accused of cutting a woman's throat and assaulting another with a hammer has retired to consider its verdict.

A man accused of attempting to murder a pregnant woman in her home last year said he had to kill her, cut her throat, then cut his own, a court has heard.

A man who fell from his ladder onto a rockery and was given painkillers by the local medical centre, died two days later of internal injuries, a coroner has found.

A trial date has been set for a man who allegedly attacked his pregnant partner with a hammer and a knife.

A man found duck hunting in a wildlife reserve has been arrested.

A property in Porirua has been cordoned off after a house was peppered with gunshots this morning.

A drunk teenager's deadly eight-storey fall from a Wellington apartment building has prompted a warning for suburban youths to be aware of the risks of high-rise buildings.

Police were justified in shooting a man who attacked his pregnant partner with a hammer and a knife, an independent inquiry has found.

A Wellington grandfather who died two days after falling from a ladder was sent home from hospital with painkillers by a doctor who "seriously underestimated'' his injuries.

A toxic paint that sickened a woman and forced her family out of their home has been pulled from sale as officials investigate what is in the paint that made her ill.

Police are speaking to two 27-year-old men following an early morning police pursuit in Wellington.

A 17-year-old was knocked unconscious before being stabbed multiple times in the neck, arms and torso in a suspected gang incident in Porirua last night, police say.

A Porirua man who was shot and Tasered by police while allegedly attacking his pregnant partner has appeared in court and been granted name suppression.

The man shot and tasered by police in Porirua is in a stable condition, with two women also recovering from injuries after the incident early this morning.

Police officers who shot and Tasered a Porirua man acted with a "great deal of professionalism and a big dollop of bravery", their boss says.