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

Police have suspended active searches for missing Westport mother Leanne Ryall.

Enjoy the fine weather while it lasts because rain is on the way.

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.

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

"What I saw was beyond a joke. I ran out on to the road waving my arms and yelling, trying to get them to stop."

A small-town school has four empty classroom and has lost 80 students in four years following local job losses.

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.

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.

Twenty-four-year-old Greymouth glass worker Sarah Bellis took on the big boys and won to be the last car standing in Saturday's demolition derby.

A terrible season with persistent rain, little sunshine and depressed prices is proving to be "the perfect storm" for stressed West Coast farmers.

Shelley Crooks has returned home and taken her first steps on crutches, after her incredible survival after being lost in rugged West Coast bush for six weeks.

A fault at the Kikiwa substation near St Arnaud knocked out power to almost the entire West Coast this morning.

The teen was attacked from behind by an unknown male, police say.

Trans-Tasman Resources is proposing to mine 50 million tonnes of iron ore per year off the coast of Patea in south Taranaki. Made with funding from NZ On AIr.

An alleged offender who is currently detained off the West Coast will have to appear in the Greymouth District Court next month despite submissions from his lawyer that he does not enjoy the prison van trip.

A teenager who showed no remorse for assaulting five people, including a police officer, will spend the next eight months behind bars.