An investigation is underway after the discovery of a man's body found on a boat in a Nelson marina.

An early morning hunting trip turned to disaster for two women when the quad bike they were on plunged over a cliff.

Nelson shoppers won't get their sugary fix at the checkout anymore after a local supermarket swapped out junk food for healthy snacks.

Nelson police are looking for a woman they say is a risk to the community.

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.

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.

Police received two reports by two girls last month about a man acting suspiciously.

You can see more than 30 winning entries at the World of Wearable Art and Classic Cars Museum on the outskirts of Nelson's CBD for $24 (adult).

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.

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.

Labour leader Andrew Little thinks it would a good idea for the Government to chip in and support the social media campaign to buy a sliver of land in Golden Bay.

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.