A small West Coast town is sitting on a significant supply of a valuable mineral used in everything from mobile phones to solar panels and electric vehicles.
West Coasters love their environment but the region can be smarter in attracting tourists for longer stays by utilising the outstanding natural environment, the retiring Department of Conservation ...
A local penguin trust had to intervene during emergency repairs to a temporary rock buffer, north of the Hokitika seawall, where kororā are known to nest.
Janice McGuire has been reunited with a piece of Blackball family history after a chance find by a local boy - her mother's wedding ring, missing for more than 65 years.
E.coli found at the Waiho River at the start of the year appears to be linked to seepage near a controversial stopbank and the Franz Josef sewage ponds.
The family of a butcher who used three knives to murder his wife is worried that, once he’s eventually freed from prison, he’ll be deported to the UK where there will be no official control or oversight of him.
A need to increase flood protection spending on the West Coast has led to one regional councillor expressing scepticism over climate change as communities debate what they need and can afford.
Shifting State Highway 6 near Franz Josef due to the threat posed by the glacial-fed Waiho River has been omitted in the proposed new Government Policy Statement (GPS).