West Coast

A mayor is calling for a rethink of who pays to keep the country's popular cycle trails open.

Sincere Standtrue died at Christchurch Hospital 10 days after being found unresponsive in the Christian community's paint shop in 2018.

Leonides Lozano will be laid to rest tomorrow in the Philippines - a month after he was sent home from Westport's acute stabilisation unit and died that same day.

There were no injuries to humans or cattle.

Multiple heavy rain, snowfall and strong wind warnings and watches are in place across the country.

"It was like he'd been murdered by the community," former Gloriavale member Clem Ready says.

The council that pioneered Māori representation in local government says it sees no need to establish a Māori ward.

The Totara rail bridge is used as a pedestrian and cycleway access for the popular West Coast Wilderness trail.

The brother of a Gloriavale man who died in 2018 says he was not aware of his brother being badly bullied.

A man has told an inquest that he does not believe a young member who died in 2018 took his own life.

A forensic audit of the council's controversial Project Management Office has found "inadequate management" and a "lack of critical controls".

A senior leader has told an inquest that while Sincere Standtrue was slow, he seemed to get on well with other children.

Westport Hospital is investigating the death of a Filipino man last month.

Out of sight - in to mined? Frank Film gauges local attitudes to increased plans for West Coast mining.

Hearings on the most controversial part of the West Coast's new district plan have been put back till November, as councils hope for confirmation that they no longer need to plan for significant…

The closure will be the hospital's third in a month, the seventh this year, and the 11th since Westport's new $21 million health centre opened in May last year.

Police are urging the public to report suspicious hunting activity, saying unlawful hunting could have potentially fatal consequences.

Jamie Kleine says there is concern over the acute stabilisation unit being inundated with closures since it opened about a year ago. Audio

The closure is due to staff illness.