Laura Mills

A proposed open-cast mineral sands mine on farmland at Barrytown, about halfway between Greymouth and Punakaiki, could produce $63 million of export earnings each year, the Australian-owned mining...

Some Blackball residents and businesses have been without internet for a week, after a cable was damaged — and Chorus found there was no copper cable left on the West Coast to do the repairs.

WorkSafe NZ will not appeal a High Court ruling allowing Pike River families to view documents relating to the decision to drop charges against the mine's former chief executive — but says they...

Unstable tracks, West Coast huts under threat and vanishing glaciers — mountaineers and trampers are "appalled" at the rate of snowline retreat.

A man who was stabbed in the chest by a former Nomads gang member at the Australasian Hotel last year narrowly escaped "devastating consequences", the Greymouth District Court has heard.

The long, dry summer, combined with sudden torrential rain in the past few days, created the perfect storm for slips throughout the central West Coast yesterday.

The fog lifted this morning allowing metalwork to be flown into place as a large upgrade and strengthening of the hydro dam on the Arnold River gets under way.

A man who ransacked Greymouth New World while allegedly sleepwalking was ordered to pay almost $4000 for the damage caused.

A ban on new mines on conservation land could stop the Reefton goldfield revival in its tracks.

The West Coast's first mineral sands mine is up and running, and starting to ramp up production.

Labour's promise of no new mines is back, sending shockwaves through the West Coast.