West Coast

Development West Coast has begun distributing funds to businesses affected by the lack of tourism due to Covid-19.

If West Coast Regional Council chair Allan Birchfield is unseated, his deputy wants the job.

Beleaguered West Coast Regional Council chairman Allan Birchfield has rejected claims that he bullied council staff and tried to interfere with resource consent decisions.

The death of a nine-year-old girl, who drowned while out whitebaiting with her step-grandfather, may have been avoided if she had been wearing a lifejacket, the coroner says.

An attempted coup is underway at the West Coast Regional Council with a bid to roll the chairperson Allan Birchfield.

Reefton is not the first town in New Zealand to offer Covid-19 vaccines to the wider community - Murchison has beaten it by a month.

The Covid-19 vaccine is being offered to all residents in a small West Coast town, while overstayers who get the vaccine will not have their details shared and a new ad campaign has launched targeting…

Field inspections will begin on the West Coast this winter to decide if significant natural areas (SNAs) spotted by researchers using maps, are in fact worth protecting.

The company hoping to reopen the old Sugarloaf quarry in South Westland says it needs access to stewardship conservation land to minimise visual impact, maximise the resource and do the job safely.

The West Coast Regional Council has taken no further action against two private dumps that were found to be bending the rules of their resource consents.

The Reefton company that had been planning to take contaminated waste from Christchurch has now pulled out of the deal.

A West Coast flooring company must pay out more than $160,000 after a worker was killed by solvent fumes.

The government has approved a scaled-down version of the Franz Josef flood protection plan, but one which will still be a major shot in the arm for the stricken tourist town.

A surge of New Zealand visitors to the West Coast has been a boon to communities, but the increased presence of dogs poses a problem for the wildlife-rich region.

Sweeping reforms to the public health system have been met with cautious optimism on the West Coast.

A claim the West Coast Regional Council is being anti-competitive in its dealings over quarries and rock supply contracts is being angrily rejected.

Emergency services based on top of the Alpine Fault in Franz Josef must be urgently moved, the mayor says, after experts forecast a higher likelihood for a devastating quake in the next 50 years.