Stories by Brendon McMahon

The Te Tai o Poutini Plan Committee will probably be forced by the courts to go back and include significant natural areas left out of the combined district plan for West Coast councils.

Westland Milk Products will be able to discharge milk waste to land from its Hokitika factory under a renewed consent.

A Westport Rating Joint Committee discussion on the town's proposed flood protection scheme has prompted regional council chairman Allan Birchfield to claim "the sea level is not going to rise so…

Frustrations boiled over yesterday as West Coast councillors heard delays in emergency repairs to protection works in the lower Buller River had left Westport vulnerable to another extreme weather…

The business case for the Westport flood protection scheme is being viewed as a test case by the government.

The West Coast District Health Board has ordered an independent inquiry into the way it organised and communicated the closure of Ziman House rest home at Reefton Hospital a month ago.

The project to to replace Westport's old hospital finally got underway in 2020, after years of delays.

Consultation will be delayed for Westport on the coastal hazard section of the new Te Tai o Poutini Plan, after a plea from Buller District Council that seeking more feedback at this time risks…

A West Coast Regional councillor says he will be abstaining from any vote at the council table because he cannot back a proposed sand mine at Cape Foulwind in Buller.

The West Coast Regional Council has applied to itself for resource consent for first phase works of a Government-funded $12.3 million project along the Waiho (Waiau) River to protect Franz Josef…