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By Andrew Ashton
- Friday, 03 February 2012

Westland District Mayor Maureen Pugh’s globe-trotting attempts to investigate the possibility of introducing a new cutting-edge recycling system...

By Viv Logie
- Friday, 03 February 2012

The season of discontent with freedom campers flouting the law on the West Coast continues, with a dozen non-self-contained campervans and cars...

By Cheryl Riley
- Thursday, 02 February 2012

The last major stage of the Hokitika Heritage Trial is nearly complete, after 10 years of labour.

By Tui Bromley
- Thursday, 02 February 2012

Rebel Blaketown lessees Christine and Doug Banks have been singled out by the Grey District Council for court action to recover several years in...

By Laura Mills
- Thursday, 02 February 2012

Two men have been charged after a truck plunged 24m off the bottom of the Otira Gorge viaduct last year, killing the driver.

By Andrew Ashton
- Wednesday, 01 February 2012

Kokatahi Band stalwart Peter Kirwan is thankful for a snap decision he made during World War Two to buy an accordion, leading to a 50-year music...

By Laura Mills
- Wednesday, 01 February 2012

Some of the country’s top scientists and scores of volunteers will crawl all over the Denniston Plateau next month as part of a Forest and Bird ‘...

By Cheryl Riley
- Tuesday, 31 January 2012

An album of photographs belonging to Hokitika’s founding father, John Hudson, has made its way back home from Australia.