Police are seeking information about an assault in a Nelson suburb last night.

A 68-year-old man has been arrested over an assault in which a teenage girl was grabbed on her way to school.

Police hope TV show will help solve the murder of Nelson man Kevin O'Loughlin, killed 23 years ago.

A garage housing hearses at a Nelson funeral home has been extensively damaged in a suspicious blaze overnight.

A parent of a pupil at Salisbury School has spoken of his disappointment over the proposal to close the special needs school his daughter attends.

Since 2011, roll of Salisbury School in Nelson has fallen from 72 to nine.

A decision to start discussions over the future of a special education school for girls is "unbelievably short-sighted", the school's board chairman says.

Jethro Nicholson feels afraid when he crosses the deadly Grey River Bar in an 18 metre fishing boat. This afternoon, he took on its power in a 1.5m kayak.

A woman feeding stock on a Nelson farm died in a quadbike accident.

A man was left unconscious and with serious injuries after a group of people attacked him in Nelson, early on Sunday morning.

Morrinsville and Fairfield colleges closed for a week, and Nelson school students monitored after teenager who recently visited Hamilton contracted the disease.

Nelson Police are trying to confirm a sighting of a female hitch-hiker in the Richmond area today as the search for missing Wakefield woman Rachel Stokes continues.

Nelson Police are on the lookout for witnesses to a street robbery which occurred in the early hours of Sunday morning.

A Nelson postie says she was threatened with a possible jail sentence from her employer if she continued to refuse delivering scam mail to residents.

A 16-year-old boy was airlifted to Nelson Hospital this afternoon after falling and seriously injuring his leg while motorcross riding.

Elisabeth Easther finds herself stoked with a small town's selection of brews.

Nelson police are at the scene of an address in Stoke, where a person's body has been found.

A French tramper was airlifted out of Mt Richmond Forest Park, near Nelson, after falling some 10 metres off a mountain ridge.

A crossing appeared in a South Island town -- and just as quickly disappeared again.

A "special arrangement" immigration authorities made with a labour hire firm preceded the country's first human trafficking arrests, a court was told today.

In a New Zealand first, three people will appear in the High Court at Nelson tomorrow charged with people-trafficking.

Like many Nelsonians before them, Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, have strolled through the Saturday Market.

Road blocks are being taken down from Nelson streets and school lock-downs are lifting in the wake of the police response to a fight in which a firearms was presented.

Boy racers are in the sights of police in the Nelson Bays district.

The man was driving a white ute on State Highway 60, about halfway between Nelson and Motueka when he overtook a slow-travelling maroon Suzuki Vitara about 3pm.

A prisoner was on the run from police last night after escaping from custody at the Nelson District Court.

An area of Nelson has been evacuated after a truck carrying gas cylinders caught fire causing some to explode.

Shandelle Battersby checks in to the Rutherford Hotel in Nelson.

Nelson police yesterday appealed for help finding Jeremy Flatt, 37, who was last seen on September 19. Police today said he had been located.