West Coast

The largest shareholder in the company, Southern Pastures, said it wanted to give weight to dairy farmers who would be more affected by the sale.

The police are investigating six reports of burglaries at West Coast gold mines.

A West Coast community says Fox Glacier will become a ghost town without access to its star attraction.

The 21-year-old went hunting for tahr in the Karangarua Valley by himself last week. The weather has been cold and wet and police say the area is hazardous.

The 177-gram nugget Craig Douglas found could have fetched $25,000 as a display piece - but he almost ignored it.

A plan to farm salmon in a hydro lake on the South Island's West Coast has been dropped because the water is too warm.

Volunteers have spent their first day picking plastic waste out of the Fox River bed since all funding for the landfill cleanup ended on Friday.

Flights from the capital to Auckland have been cancelled today due to wind, following a deluge of rain that flooded parts of State Highway 6 and prompted Westland council to open an Emergency Centre.

Eight weeks into the cleanup effort on the Fox River in South Westland, 95 percent of its length remains contaminated by rubbish from a flood-torn landfill. Audio

The Civil Aviation Authority was confused about its safety role in the years leading up to the 2015 Fox Glacier helicopter crash but its poor performance has been turned round, its director says.

Transport investigators have found numerous failures by both the operator and aviation watchdog in the lead up to a helicopter crash on Fox Glacier which killed all seven on board.

The search for a missing man has restarted following a jet boat crash on the West Coast on Friday afternoon.

Police on the West Coast have temporarily suspended the search for a man missing after a jetboat overturned last week.