A 78-year-old Westport man has been further remanded on bail to appear in the Greymouth District Court in June on charges related to historic sex offending.

A judge has taken a German tourist's word that she will voluntarily pay thousands of dollars in compensation to a motorcyclist that she seriously injured in a head-on crash.

A rental car driven by a tourist smashed through the plate glass window of a Hokitika automotive workshop, giving workers a fright and causing $40,000 of damage.

The daughter of Gloriavale leader Neville Cooper, who walked out of the commune after 41 years, says the latest family to leave face a hard road.

A family of 14 have walked out on a West Coast religious commune to start a new life after concluding they had been living in a “false system”.

A driver was swept more than 200m downstream and found clinging to a tree after his small truck went over a bank and into the Buller River.

"There were dead animals in drains." A vet has described an horrific case of mistreating cattle on a farm as the worst he has seen.

Twenty people have rescued an American tourist from a West Coast cave after the woman suffered a suspected broken leg yesterday.

The craggy and wild Main Divide really does split New Zealand into two different landscapes, writes Bronwyn Sell.

A Reefton man who punched and kicked a cow at the Cape Foulwind dairy farm where he worked has been sentenced to community detention and community work.

Even the rain has a five-star edge at Te Waonui Forest Retreat, finds Bronwyn Sell.

Eighty five years ago the carrier that was to become Hawaiian Airlines started commercial flights using a plane dubbed the "ugly duckling".

Bronwyn Sell stays at a family-friendly place with dramatic ocean views near Greymouth.

A search is underway after a French tourist went missing on a mountain hike in Arthur's Pass National Park.