Teen threatened at gunpoint by three men wearing fancy dress and wigs during dairy robbery.

An endangered penguin has been returned to the wild after being treated for abdominal wounds at Wellington Zoo.

A family escaped a blaze in their two-storey Greymouth home.

A West Coast woman who was unlawfully locked up in a police cell for nearly a whole day and a night says she's been left traumatised.

The Granity bus shelter reported missing last week was never stolen.

Civil Aviation has given grounded South Westland helicopter company Alpine Adventures the green light to fly again.

A West Coast cage fighter who was arrested for assault and then left in handcuffs for more than eight hours was not treated with humanity, the police watchdog has found.

The tourist who said New Zealand should be renamed "Nazi Zealand" faces more charges.

The West Coast Regional Council has quietly sunk a further $205,000 into the Rolleston 1080 poison bait plant.

The tale of the frustrated French hitchhiker who waited for four days in Punakaiki has proved a boon for the West Coast town and continues to generate overseas attention.

The under-fire French hitchhiker says his anger boiled over after he was racially abused while trying to thumb a lift.

Phones have been ringing off the hook and international news agencies have picked up the story of the frustrated Frenchman passing through Punakaiki.

A house fire in Franklin St yesterday afternoon, caused by a faulty washing machine, would have been far worse were it not for working smoke alarms.

A Government-initiated study has recommended fuller investigation "to clarify once and for all" if the Haast to Hollyford Road is viable.

Frustrated Frenchman who made international headlines after being stranded in Punakaiki for four days has left vastly different impressions on his travels.

The French hitchhiker stuck for four days at a tiny West Coast town says he will hitch a lift to his next court appearance.

Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce and Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy today released a detailed report on the Coast's economy.

Steven Joyce and Nathan Guy release detailed report which outlines significant potential to attract new investment on West Coast.

Frustrated French hitchhiker ended up in handcuffs after road signs were hurled into the Punakaiki River and locals were abused.

Former Hokitika woman Michelle Blok picked up an Emmy at the recent 2016 Creative Arts Emmy Awards, in Los Angeles.

Nine years after Westpower first proposed a hydro-electricity scheme on the Waitaha River, the Department of Conservation said it had given approval in principle.

Police have found a body within the scene of the commercial premises destroyed by fire last night at Franz Josef.

State Highway 6 between Punakaiki and Fox River reopened today following a mammoth clean-up operation.

Three people have been rescued from a car which went over a cliff south of Westport.

Police have found a body in a workshop flattened by a bulldozer and torched by its owner last night.

The huge slip near Meybille Bay, south of Westport, is proving a cloud with a silver lining for Punakaiki.

A fresh rock fall this morning to the north of Sunday's slip near Punakaiki ended chances of the road reopening today. About 200

A West Coast woman convicted of having sex with a 14-year-old boy and jailed for three years can now be named.

Kim Knight felt the fear (and then walked it off) on a six-hour side-trip to Hokitika.

Passengers on both the Tranz Alpine and the visiting Silver Fern railcar faced travel disruptions today after a derailment at Omoto early this morning.