Hokitika

By Andrew Ashton
- Thu, 02 September 2010

Wildfoods festival organisers have said they are not worried about North Island “copycats” after it was announced that Napier would this year host...

By Andrew Ashton
- Wed, 01 September 2010

With voting in local body elections just around the corner that will see Westland Mayor Maureen Pugh challenged for her position for the first...

By Janna Sherman
- Wed, 01 September 2010

Hokitika Department of Conservation staff members Ricky Croft, left, and Evan Smith work to repair the bottom half of the Goldsborough camping...

by Janna Sherman
- Wed, 25 August 2010

With less than a week until the opening of the West Coast whitebait season the Hokitika River is again a hive of activity as fishermen work to...

By Andrew Ashton
- Tue, 24 August 2010

Anglican faithful in Ross and South Westland now officially have a minister to tend to their spiritual needs after the Christchurch Anglican...

By Andrew Ashton
- Thu, 19 August 2010

Kawhaka farmer and Tb Free West Coast committee member Kees van Beek has spiced up the Westland District Council elections by standing on a pro-...

By Janna Sherman
- Wed, 18 August 2010

The Westland mayoral election looks set to stay a two-horse race, with the exit yesterday of West Coast regional councillor Duncan Davidson.

By Andrew Ashton
- Tue, 17 August 2010

Thirty-eight years after a group of Hokitika school children lost touch, organisers of a planned reunion of past pupils from Westland High School’...