Cake contract: Westland CEO suspended
Under fire Westland District Council chief executive Tanya Winter has been suspended.
Under fire Westland District Council chief executive Tanya Winter has been suspended.
The 26-year-old man is critically ill after suffering a head injury.
The bird was thought extinct until 2013 when sightings prompted it to be reclassified.
WWF-NZ says a shift to safer fishing practices to protect the Maui's dolphin is possible.
A Gloriavale leader says the secretive community needs to be held to account
Police may re-search an area previously covered in the hunt for a missing Westport woman.
Cass Square took a hammering from two recent big events in the rain.
Up to 16 unionised jobs could go under a "jobs review" by Westland Milk Product.
Crashed helicopter already on accident commission's watchlist.
Police have confirmed a second sighting of missing Westport woman Leanne Ryall on Friday.
There has been a "monster" increase in visitors at Franz Josef Glacier.
I have never had a crash happen so close ... that I just had to walk outside.
Stoats ate almost every chick and egg in a Fiordland crested penguin research project.
Police have suspended active searches for missing Westport mother Leanne Ryall.
Enjoy the fine weather while it lasts because rain is on the way.
Westport woman Leanne Ryall was last seen at her home early yesterday morning.
Adrian Vega Leiros was due back in Westport 11 days ago.
Two contracts for $401k were awarded to a firm which also got an $8.5m contract for a plant at Franz Josef.
This year's annual cannabis operation on the Coast netted less than last year.
A man has been charged with indecent assault at a makeshift Wildfoods Festival campground in Hokitika.
A delegation representing Chinese investors came to Hokitika last Thursday to meet the three Coast mayors.
Police executed the search warrants in an effort to reduce social harm from drugs.
"What I saw was beyond a joke. I ran out on to the road waving my arms and yelling, trying to get them to stop."
A small-town school has four empty classroom and has lost 80 students in four years following local job losses.
For the first time in more than 60 years, a small-town New Zealand newspaper could not print.
Credit Union South has confirmed the closure of its last West Coast branch, in Greymouth, from the end of the month.
A bounty to confirm the South Island kokako is still alive has led to 40 possible encounters.
A caregiver who belatedly admitted causing the death of a toddler after shaking it so violently in frustration has been jailed five and a half years.
A Buller woman has become the first woman to head a rugby board in New Zealand.
A former owner of sunken vessel Francie says NZ risks another major boating tragedy if maritime rules are not overhauled.