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A close eye on SH6 section as it reopens after 13 days
State Highway 6 will reopen at 10am today, but with warnings of more closures and with new hazard lights to warn motorists if the ground moves again.
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Mayor wins defamation case
Mayor wins defamation case
Buller District Mayor Jamie Cleine has won a defamation case brought by a Westport accountant.
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Options for slip area under investigation
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Options for slip area under investigation
A business case has been signed off to look at options around slip-prone Knights Point on the West Coast as an Orange rain warning hovers over the area for today.
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Some tourists being caught out by closure of State Highway 6
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Some tourists being caught out by closure of State Highway 6
Some tourists, with English as a second language, are still driving over the Haast Pass without understanding that the road north to the glaciers is blocked at Knights Point.
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Rain may slow SH6 slip repairs
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Rain may slow SH6 slip repairs
More rocks have fallen on to the road at Knights Point and with rain forecast, NZTA says it is likely to be Sunday at the earliest before SH6 - the tourism industry’s lifeline - reopens to traffic
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Call for action as slip cuts off Coast
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Call for action as slip cuts off Coast
West Coast businesses are losing up to $3million a day after the landslip near Knights Point — where State Highway 6 clings on at the top of a 100m drop into the sea — started to move in the...
Westland state of emergency lifted, SH6 damaged
Westland state of emergency lifted, SH6 damaged
A state of emergency in part of Westland has been lifted as officials assess damage from heavy rain that has affected the highway network.
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Greymouth man pleads guilty over child sex abuse images
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Greymouth man pleads guilty over child sex abuse images
A Greymouth panel beater has admitted downloading more than 120,000 images and videos exploiting the sexual abuse of young people, including one girl younger than two years old.
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'Not great year' for whitebaiters
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'Not great year' for whitebaiters
The shortened whitebait season ended today without a hiss, let alone a roar, and the Grey River running dirty.
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Deaf woman isolated after social media hacking
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Deaf woman isolated after social media hacking
A profoundly deaf Murchison woman has lost her main way of communicating with the world, after her social media accounts were hacked - and then suspended.
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Book tells Māori history of Coast
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Book tells Māori history of Coast
A new landmark book documents the remarkable Māori history of the West Coast.
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Head-on crash kills beloved farmer, teacher couple
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Head-on crash kills beloved farmer, teacher couple
A much-loved former Reefton school teacher and her Federated Farmers stalwart husband died as a result of a car crash on the Canterbury Plains last week.
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Tributes for couple killed in Canterbury crash
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Tributes for couple killed in Canterbury crash
Tributes are being paid to a much-loved former Reefton school teacher and her Federated Farmers stalwart husband, killed following a car crash on the Canterbury Plains.
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Human chain of concern at Reefton Hospital
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Human chain of concern at Reefton Hospital
More than 200 people made a chain around Reefton Hospital at the weekend as concerns over health cuts rumble throughout the West Coast and beyond.
Health system declaration to travel country
Health system declaration to travel country
A "declaration" that New Zealand’s health system is in a state of crisis was made at a protest in Westport on Saturday, and will now tour the country for the wider public to sign.
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Decision puts urgent care ‘out of reach’
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Decision puts urgent care ‘out of reach’
"Once it goes, we are never getting it back," Westland Mayor Helen Lash says of looming cuts to after-hours GP services throughout the West Coast.
Health cuts protests set to be held
Health cuts protests set to be held
A large turnout is expected in Westport today to protest health cuts in the town, national speakers, local health staff and television cameras all set to attend.
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Communities rally to help whitebaiter's family
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Communities rally to help whitebaiter's family
The Runanga and Rapahoe communities are rallying to help the wife and six children of a local man who drowned this week while whitebaiting near his home.
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Questions over access to telehealth
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Questions over access to telehealth
Several hundred West Coast households have neither phone nor internet, raising questions about access to a doctor after hours, with the impending move to telehealth.
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Hopes stricken barge will be floated soon
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Hopes stricken barge will be floated soon
The cavalry has arrived in Westport, boosting hopes that a powerful tug now offshore can pull the stricken barge off Carters Beach around midday tomorrow.