Stories by Samantha Gee

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.

Almost 20 years after the idea for a pest-free sanctuary was first raised for the site of Nelson's former water works in the Brook Waimārama Sanctuary, the first two species to be reintroduced are…

Members of the Kaikōura community are concerned its pāua fishery is being stripped by the huge demand from the public.

A large-scale stoat eradication programme on d'Urville Island can no longer go ahead because of problems with land access.

An emergency accommodation provider in Nelson is closing, after more than three decades supporting the city's homeless men.

It has some of the lowest vaccination rates in the South Island, but West Coasters are now less than 1500 shots shy of being 90 percent fully vaccinated.

The Department of Conservation and iwi are appealing for information from the public after two kea were shot dead in Golden Bay.

Residents in the Kenepuru Sound finally have road access, more than four months after the July storm caused significant damage to the roading network.

The Covid-19 outbreak in Nelson seems to have given people the nudge they needed to get their first vaccination.