A driver was swept more than 200m downstream and found clinging to a tree after his small truck went over a bank and into the Buller River.

"There were dead animals in drains." A vet has described an horrific case of mistreating cattle on a farm as the worst he has seen.

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.

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

Bronwyn Sell stays at a family-friendly place with dramatic ocean views near Greymouth.

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.

'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 police officer is concerned a pregnant woman is living in unsafe conditions in a rundown West Coast house -- but the Buller District Council won't do anything about it.

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