The Buller man turned himself in after escaping from police custody on Saturday night.

The Buller man who escaped from police custody on Saturday night will spend a month behind bars awaiting his next court appearance.

The Independent Police Conduct Authority has ruled that using the Taser on the man was a breach of policy, and that policy should be reviewed.

Cannabis 'grow room' fire results in conviction for man who has lived 'under the radar'.

A 26-year-old Buller man wanted by police after he escaped custody has handed himself in.

The Labour weekend road toll stands at two today, after a woman critically injured in a Paekakariki crash died in hospital.

The person was critically injured in the crash at Greymouth Motorcycle Street Races, and died on their way to hospital.

Raw sewage poured out of the sewer outlet of a Greymouth river to the disgust of whitebaiters fishing on a Sunday afternoon.

Five people have been charged after the "aggressive robbery" of several overseas tourists in campervans parked in Greymouth.

Man in court after house fire thought to have started from a cannabis oil explosion in the kitchen.

Photos of the victim of a serious assault which were splattered over a private Facebook page are being investigated by police.

Constable Quirke shoots Stanley Graham and brings to an end one of New Zealand's worst mass shootings that killed seven men.

The mother of a 17-year-old boy who died after drinking heavily says she has no resentment towards his older friend who supplied him alcohol.

It was 75 years ago this month that West Coast farmer Stanley Graham killed for the first time. A total of seven people would be dead before he was caught.

Tributes are pouring in for the former head of the Council of Trade Unions who died this morning after a battle with lung cancer.

Vet says in the past two weeks unvaccinated dogs in the town had been hit hard by the deadly parvovirus.

After working undercover in the drug and gang scene, retiring Police Assoc boss says he relied on rugby, possum trapping and the West Coast to sort out his head.

Up to 30 West Coast patients won't get scheduled surgery or outpatient consultations next week as a result of the junior doctors' strike.

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

Federated Farmers says "feral" anti-1080 activists are worse than the pests.

A trio of tourists who went for a walk up to Kings Park to view the sunset became lost and had to call the police to help them down.

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.