West Coast

Westland mayor Bruce Smith says the West Coast Tai Poutini Conservation Board has become a mouthpiece for Forest and Bird.

The Department of Conservation has scrapped plans to expand its campsite at Lake Ianthe/Matahi, in Westland after strong objections from conservation groups and locals.

The company that designed the Stockton Plateau Hydro Scheme is applying for a six-year extension to its resource consents.

The man who pioneered whitebait farming in New Zealand is backing claims that Westport has the potential to be the whitebait capital of the world.

The vexed subject of air traffic over wilderness areas is high on the agenda at next week's meeting of the West Coast Tai Poutini Conservation Board.

The mayor of Grey District says businesses and residents will be relieved that a major road in and out of Greymouth is now partially open.

The Westland and Grey district mayors have hit out at the possibility more West Coast land could be classed as a significant natural area. Audio

Thousands of farmers, miners, forestry workers and West Coast residents gathered in Greymouth this morning, for a rally against what they say are 'one size fits all' government policies.

A West Coast community that's facing a massive bill to stop erosion, is taking matters into its own hands.

The theory that it was 1080 that killed about 600 rats, an octopus, a calf and other animals that washed up on a West Coast beach is highly unlikely, a DOC manager says.

Dog owners are being warned to keep their pets off Westport beaches after hundreds of rats washed up there yesterday. A local says carcasses spanned North Beach as far as the eye could see.

Businesses in Greymouth are seeing profits down 50 percent because a slip is blocking a state highway, the town's mayor says.

The transport agency and KiwiRail say road and rail services remain disrupted in and out of Greymouth by a continually moving slip.

Part of State Highway 7 and a rail line remain closed due to a large slip just outside Greymouth, which continues to show signs of ongoing instability.

A new minerals lab on the West Coast could help boost value-added manufacturing, backers say.

The chairperson of Minerals West Coast says the industry is facing its worst-ever crisis due to the policies of a hostile government.