Solid Energy says it remains in discussions over the future of the Spring Creek underground coalmine at Dunollie, and the small Reddale open-cast mine near Reefton.

Anna Harrison embarks on four days of cycling to explore the rugged West Coast.

Justine Tyerman learns the pin-step on a famous South Island river of ice.

A treasurer of a popular West Coast speedway has been charged with stealing more than $6000 in club cash. Tania Dawn Lind, 33, was

The Buller man turned himself in after escaping from police custody on Saturday night.

The Buller man who escaped from police custody on Saturday night will spend a month behind bars awaiting his next court appearance.

The Independent Police Conduct Authority has ruled that using the Taser on the man was a breach of policy, and that policy should be reviewed.

Cannabis 'grow room' fire results in conviction for man who has lived 'under the radar'.

A 26-year-old Buller man wanted by police after he escaped custody has handed himself in.

Raw sewage poured out of the sewer outlet of a Greymouth river to the disgust of whitebaiters fishing on a Sunday afternoon.

Five people have been charged after the "aggressive robbery" of several overseas tourists in campervans parked in Greymouth.

The mother of Trent O'Connell - who was 17 when he died on State Highway 7 on October 9 last year - recalls that day.

A partnership agreement was signed yesterday as delegates of the Chinese Government group were hosted in Hokitika for the day.

Man in court after house fire thought to have started from a cannabis oil explosion in the kitchen.

Photos of the victim of a serious assault which were splattered over a private Facebook page are being investigated by police.

Constable Quirke shoots Stanley Graham and brings to an end one of New Zealand's worst mass shootings that killed seven men.

The mother of a 17-year-old boy who died after drinking heavily says she has no resentment towards his older friend who supplied him alcohol.

It was 75 years ago this month that West Coast farmer Stanley Graham killed for the first time. A total of seven people would be dead before he was caught.

After working undercover in the drug and gang scene, retiring Police Assoc boss says he relied on rugby, possum trapping and the West Coast to sort out his head.

Up to 30 West Coast patients won't get scheduled surgery or outpatient consultations next week as a result of the junior doctors' strike.

The West Coast rugby player who underwent emergency brain surgery after collapsing straight after a Heartland Championship match against

Veteran anti-1080 protester Pete Lusk successfully argued to have his bail conditions changed.

Man faced charges of assault with a weapon, assault, intentional damage, resisting arrest and using threatening language.

A Hokitika minister has been elected Bishop of Te Waipounamu in the Anglican Maori Church.

An old railway house at Otira razed by fire early today was not insured.

In the absolute silence of deep underground, Bronwyn Sell experiences true darkness - and the beauty it conceals.

Changes undermine value of national bowel screening programme, expert says.

Police have named the man who died following a fall on the Gunn Ridge Track near Whataroa on Friday as Nicolaj Brun.

Police have recovered the body of a man who has died after falling from a ridge line on the West Coast last night.

A man has died after falling from a ridgeline on the West Coast tonight. Police said the man, who had been on a hunting trip with