By Viv Logie
- Fri, 10 September 2010

Greymouth High School, neighbours and police are livid after a vehicle spun around on the Recreation Ground early this morning, chewing up the playing field and newly-grassed area adjoining the aquati

Health

By Laura Mills
- Wed, 18 August 2010

Locum surgeons on the West Coast are earning up to $2500 a day — $1000 more than the Prime Minister and about 25 times that of the median income...

By Andrew Ashton
- Thu, 01 July 2010

Staff at the Hokitika Health Centre yesterday celebrated the latest in a long line of milestones yesterday as Andrea Beecroft chalked up 30 years...

Education

By Viv Logie
- Mon, 30 August 2010

Reefton is set to lose its ‘digger school’ and extractives course as Tai Poutini Polytechnic moves it closer to Greymouth.

By Lisa Rangi
- Mon, 23 August 2010

St Patrick’s Primary School will wind back the clock when it digs up two time capsules, which have lain buried since the current school was built...

Politics

By Laura Mills
- Fri, 20 August 2010

Tony Kokshoorn was the only West Coast mayor to be returned to office unopposed this morning, winning his third term.

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-...

Sport

By Matt Kersten
- Mon, 06 September 2010

Hokitika axeman Adam Lowe took top honours at the 2010 NBS West Coast Sports Awards, at Shantytown on Saturday night.
The 24-year-old was...

By Matt Kersten
- Thu, 02 September 2010

As the West Coast Heartland Championship rugby side gears up for its first home match of the season, so too are the ring leaders of a support...

Business

By Andrew Ashton
- Fri, 10 September 2010

Consumers on the Coast have been warned that luxury items could become an increasingly rare sight on supermarket shelves as the fall-out from the...

By Matt Kersten
- Thu, 09 September 2010

After 47 years serving the Greymouth port, the old tug and pilot boat the William Steer sailed across the bar for the last time yesterday, headed...

Hokitika

By Andrew Ashton
- Fri, 10 September 2010

Consumers on the Coast have been warned that luxury items could become an increasingly rare sight on supermarket shelves as the fall-out from the...

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...