Franz Josef and Haast are isolated due to the State Highway being blocked on either side.

Organisers say restrictions and Covid in community makes it impossible.

Civil Defence emergency operation centres have opened in Westport and Hokitika.

MetService has issued a red warning for the area.

Metservice is predicting up to 550mm of rain could fall in the ranges.

A ridge has fought off a front to keep the long weekend weather sunny and hot.

The unmarked vehicle was stolen on Monday.

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A Givealittle page has been set up by friends of the family.

Vigilant Standtrue had previously admitted charges of assaulting boys aged 9, 10 and 11.

Murderer Timothy Taylor has been recalled to prison for a breach of parole.

The weekend is shaping up to be sizzling hot, with temperatures hitting 30C or higher.

More tourists have been walking Hokitika's streets in the past fortnight.

Two people have been injured and diversions are in place.

One district has nearly 50 per cent more lightning strikes than anywhere else.

Emergency services are rushing to the Last Resort hotel after the crash at 4pm today.

Police hope drilling an additional borehole will reveal what caused the first explosion.

The bed of the Waiho is rising at a rate of 180mm a year.

Police are concerned about the risk of injury due to rockfall.

Ken Ferguson, of Waipuna Station, has 60ha set aside in significant natural areas.

Beach-lovers rejoice, a scorching Saturday's on the way.

The penguin was flown 500km to Christchurch after a lucky escape from a shark.

Many across the nation are jumping on the non-homogenised milk bandwagon.

The one thing more fragile than the Park ecosystem was the brittle karst limestone.

It takes a two-day walk to get from the Long residence at Gorge River to the nearest town.

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The beachcast dolphins were found in the second half of November.