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.

A man has been charged with indecent assault at a makeshift Wildfoods Festival campground in Hokitika.

A delegation representing Chinese investors came to Hokitika last Thursday to meet the three Coast mayors.

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.

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.

GNS said it could be a delayed aftershock from 1994.

A Queenstown consortium has bought historic steam train.

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 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.

A large sinkhole which appeared yesterday caused consternation among residents of a Punakaiki neighbourhood.

Pike River families say a commitment to leave the coal mine unsealed and inspect it with drone technology falls short of their requests, but is still "very positive".

Pike River families are meeting with Prime Minister Bill English for the first time this afternoon.

The West Coast may finally be in line for more better days than bad ones next month, a national forecaster says.

Forest & Bird has mounted a court challenge over a decision by the Buller District Council to allow an open-cast coalmine on 100ha of public reserve land behind Westport township.