Conservation Minister Dr Nick Smith has granted an access agreement for a controversial open-cast coalmine on the Denniston Plateau, but soothed that with the biggest compensation package in conservat
Greymouth landmarks the Railway and Royal hotels, on Mawhera Quay, are to be bulldozed to make way for a major new tourism and hospitality redevelopment, which will take up the entire block.
West Coast historian Les Wright built a bivvy after getting lost in bush in the King Country, but then appears to have slipped to his death, according to his brother.
