Nelson Police are on the lookout for witnesses to a street robbery which occurred in the early hours of Sunday morning.

A Nelson postie says she was threatened with a possible jail sentence from her employer if she continued to refuse delivering scam mail to residents.

A 16-year-old boy was airlifted to Nelson Hospital this afternoon after falling and seriously injuring his leg while motorcross riding.

Elisabeth Easther finds herself stoked with a small town's selection of brews.

Nelson police are at the scene of an address in Stoke, where a person's body has been found.

Labour leader Andrew Little thinks it would a good idea for the Government to chip in and support the social media campaign to buy a sliver of land in Golden Bay.

A French tramper was airlifted out of Mt Richmond Forest Park, near Nelson, after falling some 10 metres off a mountain ridge.

A crossing appeared in a South Island town -- and just as quickly disappeared again.

Like many Nelsonians before them, Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, have strolled through the Saturday Market.

Road blocks are being taken down from Nelson streets and school lock-downs are lifting in the wake of the police response to a fight in which a firearms was presented.

Boy racers are in the sights of police in the Nelson Bays district.

The man was driving a white ute on State Highway 60, about halfway between Nelson and Motueka when he overtook a slow-travelling maroon Suzuki Vitara about 3pm.

A prisoner was on the run from police last night after escaping from custody at the Nelson District Court.

An area of Nelson has been evacuated after a truck carrying gas cylinders caught fire causing some to explode.

Shandelle Battersby checks in to the Rutherford Hotel in Nelson.

Nelson police yesterday appealed for help finding Jeremy Flatt, 37, who was last seen on September 19. Police today said he had been located.

Family members and police are worried about Jeremy Flatt, 37, who was last seen on September 19.

Two policemen who saved a man from a burning flat are being hailed as lifesavers. One of the rescuers required hospital treatment for smoke inhalation.

A 51-year-old man was found by members of the public after being assaulted in Nelson just after 2pm.

Two inexperienced trampers owe their lives to the volunteer search and rescue parties that rescued them from the Nelson Lakes National Park on the weekend, police say.

Two trampers were rescued from a mountain in Nelson Lakes National Park after spending a night exposed to -18C and falling snow.

An apparent ram raid of a car parts supplier in Nelson this morning is being investigated by police.

A DOC investigation is underway following allegations of kea being shot at a forestry site in Nelson.

A man has been left with burns to his mouth after an assault outside Nelson City Council offices early this morning.

A woman in a car was reportedly intimidated by a group of about 10 motorcyclists, some believed to be patched gang members, on Saturday afternoon in Nelson.

Nelson man David John Hobbs was described as the "mastermind" behind an A$30 million "Ponzi" scheme.

Bruce Andrew Mortimer spent the last few years trying to keep out of trouble before he got killed in a hostel, his former partner says.

Bruce Andrew Mortimer died on Saturday night from injuries sustained in an earlier incident at Nelson’s Franklyn Village residential units.

A man killed this weekend and those arrested in connection with his death all lived at the same hostel.