Cass Square took a hammering from two recent big events in the rain.

Up to 16 unionised jobs could go under a "jobs review" by Westland Milk Product.

Crashed helicopter already on accident commission's watchlist.

St John volunteers in shock after station put on the market without their knowledge.

Backer believes the Coast was in a "pretty strong position" to gain the funding.

Police have confirmed a second sighting of missing Westport woman Leanne Ryall on Friday.

There has been a "monster" increase in visitors at Franz Josef Glacier.

I have never had a crash happen so close ... that I just had to walk outside.

Stoats ate almost every chick and egg in a Fiordland crested penguin research project.

Westport woman Leanne Ryall was last seen at her home early yesterday morning.

Adrian Vega Leiros was due back in Westport 11 days ago.

Two contracts for $401k were awarded to a firm which also got an $8.5m contract for a plant at Franz Josef.

Autumn's cooler temperatures starting to settle in - but sunshine continues.

The Grey District Council has voted to allow Easter Sunday trading.

This year's annual cannabis operation on the Coast netted less than last year.

A man has been charged with indecent assault at a makeshift Wildfoods Festival campground in Hokitika.

A delegation representing Chinese investors came to Hokitika last Thursday to meet the three Coast mayors.

Police executed the search warrants in an effort to reduce social harm from drugs.

For the first time in more than 60 years, a small-town New Zealand newspaper could not print.

Credit Union South has confirmed the closure of its last West Coast branch, in Greymouth, from the end of the month.

A bounty to confirm the South Island kokako is still alive has led to 40 possible encounters.

A caregiver who belatedly admitted causing the death of a toddler after shaking it so violently in frustration has been jailed five and a half years.

A Buller woman has become the first woman to head a rugby board in New Zealand.

A former owner of sunken vessel Francie says NZ risks another major boating tragedy if maritime rules are not overhauled.

GNS said it could be a delayed aftershock from 1994.

A Queenstown consortium has bought historic steam train.

Development West Coast chairman John Sturgeon has had his term cut short by four months.

Another witness has reported seeing strange lights over Greymouth last week.

A Westland District Council staff member is at the centre of an SFO probe.

A 33-year-old man has been charged after an axe attack in Greymouth.