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.

Serving the women of the Buller District has been an absolute privilege, but it's time to move on, says Kawatiri Birthing Unit manager Correen Haslett.

Westland Milk Products has appointed Toni Brendish as its new chief executive.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A small West Coast community has rallied around the parents of baby Emily Saunders who was swept into a swollen river as the search continues for her body.

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.