The Fox Glacier School roll has fallen to five, its lowest number in over 20 years when the village school was briefly closed.

The unusual warmth that dominated our climate last summer has had alarmingly apparent impacts on the South Island's postcard glaciers and mountain snowlines.

South Westland's biggest helicopter operator is expected to be back in the air early this week after being grounded for a month.

The last of debris left from a helicopter crash in which six tourists and a pilot were killed last year have been picked up.

The bodies of all three remaining victims of the helicopter crash have now been airlifted from glacier.

Attempts to recover the remaining three bodies of people killed in the Fox Glacier helicopter crash have resumed this morning.

Four stranded members of the recovery team working at the Fox Glacier helicopter crash site were in for a long night after stormy weather closed in.

Recovery crews at Fox Glacier are frustrated by bad weather continuing to put a hold on efforts to retrieve the remaining victims.

It could be 18 months before the investigation into what caused Saturday's Fox Glacier helicopter crash is concluded.

Police have released the names of all the other people believed to have died in the Fox Glacier helicopter crash.

Exactly five years on from the Fox Glacier skydive plane crash that killed nine people, an addendum to the report into the tragedy is still to be released.

Thousands visit the ice in this world-famous beauty spot, writes Elisabeth Easther.

The El Nino weather event predicted to dump rain on the West Coast this year could actually help the rapidly retreating glaciers, according to a scientist.

A search and rescue crew have been honoured for their brave actions at the Explorer Glacier on March 7 last year which saved a German climber's life.

The father of a British tourist killed when a skydiving plane crashed at Fox Glacier is taking his campaign to the Internet saying New Zealand is unsafe.