West Coast

Part of a rural property and $10,000 in cash have been forfeited after a police investigation into a cannabis operation in Greymouth.

The loss of international visitors to West Coast glacier towns has caused job cuts, businesses to close and people to leave, but further up the Coast, the picture is a bit rosier.

In its first prosecution involving damage to a protected wetland, the West Coast Regional Council took John Cowan to court earlier this year for excavating a 270m-long drain adjoining Department of…

Governance costs for the West Coast Regional Council have nearly doubled in the past three months, prompting a "please explain" from the council's finance monitors.

Reefton's economic development officer Rachel Fifield says she and her husband would close the gym they operate rather than exclude people not vaccinated against Covid-19.

A new mental health unit for the West Coast is back on track after getting the nod from the government's capital investment committee.

Soaring rates bills on the West Coast are forcing some homeowners on low incomes to consider selling up.

A West Coast couple have chosen to close their gym, instead of turning away customers who are not vaccinated.

A new 'navigator' role has been created on the West Coast to support people impacted by methamphetamine, police say.

Almost three months after a fishing boat ran aground on the West Coast, a complex salvage operation to recover potential contaminants has been completed.

Most farmers have no intention of destroying native bush just to get in ahead of new rules protecting significant natural areas, according to Grey Valley farmer Anton Becker.

More than three months after severe flooding in Westport damaged hundreds of homes, many residents are left wondering when and if they will be able to return.

Barrytown JV Ltd wants resource consents from the Regional and Grey District Councils to mine privately-owned farmland for ilmenite and other minerals, over an eight-year period.

Almost three months after floodwaters ravaged the coastal town of Westport, 140 people remain in temporary accommodation, living in cabins, motels or with friends and family.

Four-wheel-drive mobile vaccination clinics are to hit the road on the West Coast in a bid to reach the most isolated communities.

Four men have been charged with arson after explosives were set off in a historic quartz mine causing significant damage.

Councillors who voted to forge ahead with mapping significant natural areas on the West Coast are likely to lose their seats at the next election in retaliation, the regional council chairman says.

West Coast Regional Council chairman Allan Birchfield has lost his bid to bar significant natural areas from private land.

Police have now located the 29-year-old man who was reported missing earlier today.

Manawhenua have dropped objections to a mining venture on the Barrytown flats after the original plans were modified.