Laura Mills

Just over 40 years after it opened in a blaze of headlines, Greymouth's once-Bohemian cafe the Bonzai will close the doors for good next week.

A mother and her young child are in hospital after they were struck by a runaway SUV outside the Westport New World supermarket. 

Fresh from winning the Women's Rugby World Cup, Ruby Tui's book Straight Up has taken the country by storm.

A rare kiwi species is under threat from pigs illegally released in Westland Tai Poutini National Park, in what has been called an ecological catastrophe by the Department of Conservation (Doc).

West Coast-Tasman MP Damien O’Connor says he will not "interfere" with the refusal to allow the Spring Creek coalmine to reopen.

West Coast police were stretched with two sudden deaths within two hours of each other early today, in Little Wanganui and Hokitika.

A rare kiwi species is under threat from pigs illegally released in Westland Tai Poutini National Park, in what has been called by the Department of Conservation an ecological catastrophe.

West Coast-Tasman MP Damien O'Connor says he will not "interfere" with the refusal to allow the Spring Creek coalmine to reopen.

Westgold butter, produced at Westland Milk Products' new Hokitika plant, is on the shelves of 550 Walmart stores across 19 states in the United States.

"They didn't seem interested," a former Kakapotahi resident said today of the gunshot she heard 24 years ago.

Whitebait season closes tomorrow — not Monday, the last day of the month — leading to speculation the Department of Conservation forgot a day when it reset the fishing rules.

Whitebait season closes on Sunday - not Monday the 31st - leading to speculation the Department of Conservation forgot a day when it reset the fishing rules.

A 23 million-year-old whale fossil cut out of the riverbank in broad daylight at Little Wanganui at the weekend may be sold for just a few thousand dollars.

About $1 million in wages would be saved annually if the proposal to cut 17 positions at Grey District Council gets the go-ahead.

The Department of Conservation says it will no longer move into a historic government building in Hokitika, two years after a $22 million government restoration was announced.

The minister in charge of mining has not stepped foot inside a single mine since taking on the portfolio.