Girl fears her rapist will come after her
A young girl raped by a West Coast farm worker who fled to Australia days before his trial fears he will come looking for her once he's served his 10-year jail term.
A young girl raped by a West Coast farm worker who fled to Australia days before his trial fears he will come looking for her once he's served his 10-year jail term.
An injured Brit who spent two freezing nights under ferns in rugged West Coast bush says he survived on just an apple.
Alpine rescuers search near Mount Bovis for the man, dressed only for a day tramp, who has been missing since Saturday.
A search and rescue is underway for a 28-year-old English man who has been missing at Paparoa National Park since Saturday night.
Most financial advisers mention just one KiwiSaver scheme when they give advice.
The pressure is on the Westland District Council from the Environment Court to address non-compliance issues at its Franz Josef Glacier waste water treatment plant.
Challenges facing the dairy industry are taking their toll on farmers, Federated Farmers West Coast provincial president Peter Langford says.
Westland Milk Products has appointed an Australian woman to lead the dairy co-operative's business.
Karamea School students got a lesson on the power of nature today, after lightning struck the school during lunchtime.
A man whose brain cancer was misdiagnosed as depression is fed up waiting for answers from the West Coast District Health Board (WCDHB).
The unusual warmth that dominated our climate last summer has had alarmingly apparent impacts on the South Island's postcard glaciers and mountain snowlines.
Wild weather yesterday aggravated coastal erosion at Cobden, with the car park at Jellyman Park now closed as a precaution due to the encroaching sea.
To celebrate 75 years of women in the police force, Westport News speaks to a former officer and another still on the beat.
Twelve weeks after racism complaints were laid with the West Coast Rugby Union, NZR officials will be on the Coast to investigate ahead of Saturday's club rugby final.
The lessee of Punakaiki Beach Camp is worried the camp may not last the winter, as more rough seas batter the West Coast.
St John had only about half the number of volunteers it needed to ensure a frontline ambulance crew on West Coast.
Fate will see two rugby adversaries already at loggerheads with each other over alleged on-field racism, square off this weekend.
Pokemon players could provide the police with vital information after a robbery in central Greymouth.
A commercial fisherman is to be prosecuted and faces a fine of up to $100,000 after dozens of albatrosses were killed during a fishing trip.
A rugby club is defaulting on a match today to protest against the West Coast Rugby Union failing to act on complaints about alleged
Police pushing good news while choosing which bad news to tell the public equates to police censorship, says the West Coast's former top cop.
Westport cop has quit following the West Coast police restructure.
High needs people moving in - or being moved - to Buller are pushing some local services to breaking point.
The West Coast's top cop says telling the public about police responding to crime is the "old school way of thinking".
DOC had to shoot a fur seal pup after someone put it on the back of a motorbike while skylarking on the Hokitika beach
Eleven-year-old Elli McLaughlan says smoke alarms save lives after a fire started by an electric blanket on her bed gutted her family's home in Westport yesterday.
Critics of proposed link between West Coast and Milford Sound say $250 million costing should be more like $2 billion.
The Local Government Commission has ended a month of consultation on the future shape of West Coast councils.
The first six months of 2016 were set to be the warmest start to the year yet, based on data from seven weather stations, including Hokitika.
Andrew Durant was convicted of a charge of procuring other drugs, after being caught fossicking for magic mushrooms.