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.

Kim Knight felt the fear (and then walked it off) on a six-hour side-trip to Hokitika.

Two rental cars were broken into and $25,000 worth of cash and property stolen at Hokitika Gorge on Saturday.

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

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.

Westland High School students and staff were back in a school routine yesterday, although not from the actual school premises, which remain cordoned off following the fire.

A 17-year-old Hokitika twin has died after drinking heavily at a party on the West Coast.

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.

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.

Red Cross is launching an appeal to help those affected by the weekend's floods - a disaster the organisation has labelled the worst to strike New Zealand since the Canterbury earthquakes.

Around 1500 people in Canterbury are likely to remain without power overnight, after a snow storm battered the region today.

Heavy rain has kept Hokitika residents awake through the night with serious flooding causing many people, including 20 retirement home residents, to be evacuated.

A decade-long project to save endangered giant snails from a West Coast coal mine will finish next year.