The husband of a woman who died when their car plunged into a creek fought to control the car as she became unresponsive at the wheel moments before the fatal crash.

A captain of a fishing vessel in Nelson was making more than $100,000 a year and living in a state house, Housing Minister Nick Smith said last night.

A truck driver was trapped in his cab for more than an hour after crashing into a rock wall north of Nelson overnight.

A sleeping household had a lucky escape when a stolen car nearly ploughed into their Nelson bedroom.

A 7-year-old Nelson boy is in a critical condition after being hit by a school bus he walked in front of this morning, police say.

A truck laden with newspapers ignited in a dramatic fire in Canterbury early this morning.

Police are investigating a suspicious fire at a Nelson pub over the weekend - the second blaze to hit the establishment in less than a year.

Name suppression for a man charged with the daylight bashing of a long-serving Nelson police officer has lapsed.

Catherine Smith jumped at the chance to bike and hike her way through Nelson's stunning landscape.

A man on a motorbike indecently exposed himself to two women cyclists in Nelson yesterday.

The daylight bashing of a long-serving Nelson police officer is another example of a "worrying trend" of increased violence towards officers, the Police Association says.

A Nelson dairy has been suspended from selling Lotto products after allegedly being caught selling legal high products.

Four bystanders plunged into a freezing creek to rescue a family trapped in a submerged car.

A woman has died and two others injured when the car they were in submerged in Saltwater Creek in Nelson.

When Simon Owen and Kay McQuire moved their family from Auckland to sunny Nelson, they had no work lined up, no friends there and no home to go to.

The average price of an Auckland house continues to race ahead of those in other parts of the country — what kind of property could you now gain if you cashed up in Auckland and moved for a more relaxed lifestyle?

The body of a missing Nelson woman has been recovered from the Pelorus River.

A resthome worker who hid behind a door when discovered with a gardener in a dead resident's studio has been awarded more than $6000 in lost wages.

A fire has significantly damaged two vehicle testing stations in a Nelson commercial building.