Stories by Samantha Gee

Nelson City Council will take another look at plans for its $46 million riverside library, as new data shows sea level rise will affect the region sooner than anticipated.

A Nelson based climate change group has launched a campaign to bombard politicians with postcards that show support for the emissions reduction plan.

The country's largest salmon producer says it is being forced to close farms and let go of staff due to warmer water temperatures brought on by climate change.

The West Coast job market is booming with a surge in listings and many workers taking advantage of a programme to upskill.

Ukrainians in Nelson have been buoyed by the support they have received from the opposite side of the world to their war torn homeland.

The lack of a public bus between Nelson and Motueka led a community trust to establish its own minivan service to transport people between the two centres.

Geotech abseilers have spent three months drilling into a 10,000 tonne block of rock to stop it from falling onto a road near Queenstown. Video

The Ministry for the Environment has issued a warning about compostable packaging - likening it to single-use plastics.

A fishing vessel has run aground at the tip of Farewell Spit, at the top of the South Island.

Iwi across the top of the South Island are now well equipped to be part of the official emergency management response in the event of a disaster.

For those in many parts of the South Island, it's been a long time since they could recycle soft plastic waste.

More than $1 million has been spent reconfiguring Nelson Hospital to better treat patients with Covid-19.

With the lifting of restrictions under the orange traffic light setting, there will be no limit on the number of people who can attend Easter Services at churches across the motu.

Contractors are busy doing earthworks to form the contours for a new coastal park in Nelson, which is expected to be complete before next summer.

An investigation has found a KiwiRail employee thought he had applied the brakes on a remote-controlled shunt locomotive and went to make a call on his phone, before the engine fell into the sea.

There are signs of a housing market slowdown, with median house values falling in 150 out of 900 suburbs nationwide in the last three months.

Environmental watchdog group Guardians of the Sounds has obtained figures showing New Zealand King Salmon dumped close to 1300 tonnes of fish waste in landfill over the last three months.

Nearly 20,000 people have signed a petition to save one of Christchurch's birthing units.

A campaign to attract seasonal workers to the horticulture and viticulture industries in Nelson Tasman has recruited several hundred people, but many orchards in the top of the south are still looking…

A borehole drilling investigation to gather footage inside the Pike River Mine has come to an end, with images taken over the past two years showing the remains of eight men.

Extreme rainfall and flooding has left roading and infrastructure across the Buller District in a fragile state and in urgent need of repair before further heavy rain hits the region.

Civil Defence emergency operation centres have opened in Westport and Hokitika as the region prepares for a deluge of heavy rain that could bring slips and flooding.

With harvest season set to kick off for the horticulture sector in the top of the South Island, orchardists, growers and hop farmers are faced with staff shortages due to closed borders.

A group of young seabirds are settling into their new home at Cape Farewell, at the northernmost tip of the South Island.

There are nine new cases of Covid-19 in Nelson and Tasman, all from the same household.