West Coast

Police have responded to the concerns of a West Coast whānau that their son was singled out for attention because he was Māori.

A fire that destroyed a house in the West Coast town of Cobden on Wednesday is being treated as suspicious.

Councils are supposed to have adopted their long-term plans by 30 June. The draft West Coast Regional Council plan has not even been finalised yet, let alone put out for consultation and adopted.

A study of Māori living on the West Coast has found racial bigotry is alive and well in the region and poses a challenge for whānau trying to raise healthy, confident children.

A report on the risk of the West Coast Regional Council headquarters collapsing in an earthquake might make staff eat lunch at their desks.

West Coast mayors are calling for a halt to identifying significant natural areas (SNAs) on private land, after suggestions that the process could be paused in the Far North.

Cycling and bike trails are important but trucks are the region's lifeline, the regional council chair says.

The acting chief executive of the West Coast Regional Council, Heather Mabin, has been given authority to sign off on loan documents in the continuing absence of council chief executive Vin Smith.

Forest and Bird says there is no truth to comments that have implicated it in a bid to roll West Coast Regional Council chairman Allan Birchfield.

The notoriously rainy West Coast is receiving even more wet weather than usual this autumn and farmers say it is a bit of a worry. The notoriously rainy West Coast...

A search and rescue operation is underway after a rafter was reported missing on the Ahaura River inland from Greymouth yesterday.

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.