Veteran anti-1080 protester Pete Lusk successfully argued to have his bail conditions changed.

Man faced charges of assault with a weapon, assault, intentional damage, resisting arrest and using threatening language.

A Hokitika minister has been elected Bishop of Te Waipounamu in the Anglican Maori Church.

An old railway house at Otira razed by fire early today was not insured.

In the absolute silence of deep underground, Bronwyn Sell experiences true darkness - and the beauty it conceals.

Changes undermine value of national bowel screening programme, expert says.

Police have named the man who died following a fall on the Gunn Ridge Track near Whataroa on Friday as Nicolaj Brun.

Police have recovered the body of a man who has died after falling from a ridge line on the West Coast last night.

A man has died after falling from a ridgeline on the West Coast tonight. Police said the man, who had been on a hunting trip with

A West Coast man who admitted illegally mining gold on his own property has been discharged without conviction.

Solid Energy's chairman says his board has done its best for the West Coast and he's fed up with continual criticism from the region.

Grey District Mayor Tony Kokshoorn proposes uplifting the memorial to pioneer West Coast surveyor George Dobson.

Hokitika postal services are in line for another dramatic overhaul next month, when the posties will be replaced with a contractor. Long-term

Strong forward bookings into summer have been welcomed by West Coast hotel and motel owners, who say the peak season is starting earlier

Westport police say they do not have enough evidence to lay charges over allegations 1080 protesters damaged a Department of Conservation

Westport police say they do not have enough evidence to lay charges over allegations 1080 protestors damaged a Department of Conservation staff member's car.

A Westport driver caught driving while disqualified for the 15th time has been sentenced to Community detention, supervision and community work in lieu of disqualification.

Multiple aerial 1080 drops have taken place in the northern Buller area over recent weeks.

The skipper of a commercial fishing boat admitted failing to scare seabirds away and may have cost his employer his vessel.

Fish and Game says it wants DoC to do more to reduce the threat 1080 poison poses to people gathering food from waterways.

Brogan Watt fell ill immediately after West Coast's 62-28 loss to Poverty Bay.

Teen threatened at gunpoint by three men wearing fancy dress and wigs during dairy robbery.

An endangered penguin has been returned to the wild after being treated for abdominal wounds at Wellington Zoo.

A family escaped a blaze in their two-storey Greymouth home.

A West Coast woman who was unlawfully locked up in a police cell for nearly a whole day and a night says she's been left traumatised.

The Granity bus shelter reported missing last week was never stolen.

Civil Aviation has given grounded South Westland helicopter company Alpine Adventures the green light to fly again.

A West Coast cage fighter who was arrested for assault and then left in handcuffs for more than eight hours was not treated with humanity, the police watchdog has found.

The tourist who said New Zealand should be renamed "Nazi Zealand" faces more charges.

The West Coast Regional Council has quietly sunk a further $205,000 into the Rolleston 1080 poison bait plant.