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.

Pokemon players could provide the police with vital information after a robbery in central Greymouth.

Fate will see two rugby adversaries already at loggerheads with each other over alleged on-field racism, square off this weekend.

Expressions of interest closed yesterday in Holcim's Westport assets.

A line of severe thunderstorms has Greymouth on high alert this morning.

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.

A rock which is rarer than pounamu and found only in South Westland, is to be investigated to see if it can be sold commercially.

A woman working on a farm owned by her father and stepmother was forced to leave after a heated argument.

Police this evening announced they would no longer search for the body of the 2-year-old girl, who was swept away down the Poerua River last Thursday.

The search for missing two-year-old Emily Saunders has been put on hold until river conditions change.

The family of missing toddler Emily Saunders thanked the community for their support, calling the community's response to their family's tragedy "incredible."

Toddler was swept away while car she was in crossed West Coast river.

Bad weather means the search won't continue today for a 2-year-old washed away by strong currents in a West Coast river.

Police have suspended their search today for a missing 2-year-old on the West Coast, due to bad weather.

Conditions on the West Coast are set to worsen over the weekend and teams would resume looking for Emily on Monday, if they could.

The search for two people whose vehicle plunged into a river near Hari Hari on the West Coast was suspended last night due to poor weather.

Majority of community members oppose proposals by regional council to fund sea wall extension via targetted rates hike.

The number of West Coast orthopaedic patients transferred to Christchurch has skyrocketed despite assurances "less than a dozen" would occur each year.