Jethro Nicholson feels afraid when he crosses the deadly Grey River Bar in an 18 metre fishing boat. This afternoon, he took on its power in a 1.5m kayak.

A woman feeding stock on a Nelson farm died in a quadbike accident.

Police received two reports by two girls last month about a man acting suspiciously.

You can see more than 30 winning entries at the World of Wearable Art and Classic Cars Museum on the outskirts of Nelson's CBD for $24 (adult).

A man was left unconscious and with serious injuries after a group of people attacked him in Nelson, early on Sunday morning.

Morrinsville and Fairfield colleges closed for a week, and Nelson school students monitored after teenager who recently visited Hamilton contracted the disease.

Nelson Police are trying to confirm a sighting of a female hitch-hiker in the Richmond area today as the search for missing Wakefield woman Rachel Stokes continues.

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

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.

A "special arrangement" immigration authorities made with a labour hire firm preceded the country's first human trafficking arrests, a court was told today.

In a New Zealand first, three people will appear in the High Court at Nelson tomorrow charged with people-trafficking.

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

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.

A man who slashed his crewmate's throat before stabbing him twice has successfully appealed to have his sentence reduced - after he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

Woman who got up early to watch the rugby was almost four times the legal alcohol limit while driving to work.

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.