The Independent Police Conduct Authority has ruled that using the Taser on the man was a breach of policy, and that policy should be reviewed.

Long weekenders rejoice - the sun is set to continue for the majority of the country over Labour Weekend.

A partnership agreement was signed yesterday as delegates of the Chinese Government group were hosted in Hokitika for the day.

Constable Quirke shoots Stanley Graham and brings to an end one of New Zealand's worst mass shootings that killed seven men.

The mother of a 17-year-old boy who died after drinking heavily says she has no resentment towards his older friend who supplied him alcohol.

It was 75 years ago this month that West Coast farmer Stanley Graham killed for the first time. A total of seven people would be dead before he was caught.

Frustrated Frenchman who made international headlines after being stranded in Punakaiki for four days has left vastly different impressions on his travels.

Former Hokitika woman Michelle Blok picked up an Emmy at the recent 2016 Creative Arts Emmy Awards, in Los Angeles.

The 102-year-old Pioneer Statue, re-sited this week in Hokitika, is now facing a different direction than the original.

Who We Are: David Fisher and videographer Mark Mitchell visit Hokitika in their search for what it means to be Kiwi in 2016.

DOC had to shoot a fur seal pup after someone put it on the back of a motorbike while skylarking on the Hokitika beach

South Westland's biggest helicopter operator is expected to be back in the air early this week after being grounded for a month.

The area has just endured its wettest May ever, smashing a 139-year-old record.

Searchers looking just north of Hokitika for one of the rarest vertebrate animals in the country have struck gold.

This year's Wildfoods Festival has been a roaring success, finishing with a $20,000 surplus.

Staff of Signlink Graphics in Hokitika were in clean-up mode this morning after a blaze that took firefighters more than two hours to extinguish.

The fire's broken out in the Signlink Graphics building on Weld Street.

A 20-year-old who died after getting into difficulties while kayaking on a gorge south of Hokitika has been named.

Police are warning people to stay away from the area near school on fire due to toxic smoke.

Te Runanga o Ngati Waewae has welcomed the bell to its Arahura Marae north of Hokitika.

Don Neale, as his "mischievous pirate" alter ego, the Red Moki from Hoki, stands by a festive Hokitika town entrance sign yesterday.

An early morning fire which ripped through a vacant block of flats in Hokitika is being treated as arson.

The Hokitika Holiday Park, purchased last year by Westland Milk Products, will be bowled to make way for further expansion of the dairy factory site.

Fire investigators were today sifting through the charred remains of a classroom block gutted by fire at Hari Hari early last night.

A Hokitika man arrested in Hokitika overnight for allegedly threatening to kill and threatening to injure with intent to frighten a family member appeared in Westport District Court today.

An intruder made off with meat and stewed fruit after breaking into a Hokitika address on Saturday.

The case of a Hokitika resident who received an unsolicited new cellphone in the mail from south-east Asia recently serves as a warning, police said today.

Bronwyn Sell stays in an ocean-front room on the West Coast.

Up to 60 mining jobs have been promised with the start up of two new goldmining operations near Hokitika and Kumara.