It was every parent's worst nightmare; news their child has died while travelling on the other side of the world, their rented campervan swept off the road during a powerful storm.

A young Canadian couple were killed when their campervan was swept off the road by the second landslide to hit the road they were on, an inquest has ruled.

A Greymouth family is in ruins following a road crash that claimed the lives of a mother and her teenage son.

The Wild Foods Festival attracts bold appetites to a great town, writes Anna Leask.

Elisabeth Easther discovers a small town in the heart of the West Coast.

Recognition just proves what Coasters have always known, says local mayor.

A patient suffered three injuries as a result of surgery at Grey Base Hospital, the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) says.

A pair of US tourists had to be rescued by a police search and rescue team after becoming stranded on the banks of the Haast River yesterday afternoon.

A man who left his victim for dead after repeatedly smashing him over the head with a wheelbrace in Hokitika has been jailed for six years and 11 months.

A moderately strong earthquake has struck close to the West Coast town of Te Anau overnight.

A West Coast woman who told a court she could only afford to pay $2 a week to her former landlord was caught out trying to buy $62 of cigarettes by a judge at the supermarket.

Kiwi Bank was today red-faced after discovering that highly confidential documents had been handed across the counter to a member of the public at the Greymouth branch.

Faults off the West Coast are capable of causing earthquakes up to magnitude 7.8, seismic research shows. They are the type that generate tsunamis and it's unknown when they will rupture.