A desperate plea by 15 bystanders for passing jetboats to rescue a 30-year-old struggling in the chilly waters of the Hokitika Gorge were ignored by the boaties.

Twenty people have rescued an American tourist from a West Coast cave after the woman suffered a suspected broken leg yesterday.

The craggy and wild Main Divide really does split New Zealand into two different landscapes, writes Bronwyn Sell.

A Reefton man who punched and kicked a cow at the Cape Foulwind dairy farm where he worked has been sentenced to community detention and community work.

Even the rain has a five-star edge at Te Waonui Forest Retreat, finds Bronwyn Sell.

Eighty five years ago the carrier that was to become Hawaiian Airlines started commercial flights using a plane dubbed the "ugly duckling".

A search is underway after a French tourist went missing on a mountain hike in Arthur's Pass National Park.

A Chinese tourist who killed a friend in a rental car crash last week is “bereft” over the incident, a court has been told.

A Chinese woman on a trip to New Zealand has pleaded guilty over a West Coast crash that killed her companion and injured two others.

A car driven by tourists was seen on the wrong side of the road shortly before it crashed on the West Coast of the South Island yesterday, killing one.

A blood-borne, tick-carried parasite, which causes serious a disease in cattle, has been identified for the first time on the West Coast.

'Luckily for me, the van was sturdy.' A Greymouth woman has recounted the moment a massive boulder crashed into the vehicle she was sitting in.

Officials have changed their tune on a "derelict" Mokihinui house where a pregnant woman had been living.

A man who went missing while exploring remote areas in his four wheel drive in the West Coast has been located.

A golden retriever has been rescued after being trapped down a hole on the West Coast for five days.

Emergency services are continuing to search for a man who was swept away in a tributary of the Upper Grey River this morning.

A terrified Auckland mother was bashed in the head after confronting an intruder she found standing over her baby's cot on Father's Day, police say.