Police have released the name of a man who died after a crash near Greymouth on Thursday

A builder's apprentice died in an accident while repiling a bach.

A young man died in an incident while repiling a house on Oneone Rd, Harihari.

18-year-old builder killed in workplace accident on remote West Coast property.

Convicted sex offender Brent John Carpenter living at controversial Gloriavale commune.

Leukaemia victim needs to take seven morphine tablets daily to alleviate pain.

A Grey District councillor is mystified about the leak of a personal letter to the mayor.

The train's recent buyer only interested in the land it sits on the head of Lake Wakatipu.

Police joined with local search, rescue volunteers at first light looking for the man.

St John volunteers in shock after station put on the market without their knowledge.

The $410,000 water contracts are on hold for now amid questions about the company.

At a special meeting, only the mayor opposed allowing shops to open for commerce.

Poor weather may have contributed to 11 per cent slip.

Two contracts for $401k were awarded to a firm which also got an $8.5m contract for a plant at Franz Josef.

The Grey District Council has voted to allow Easter Sunday trading.

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

"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."

Credit Union South has confirmed the closure of its last West Coast branch, in Greymouth, from the end of the month.

GNS said it could be a delayed aftershock from 1994.

Another witness has reported seeing strange lights over Greymouth last week.

A 33-year-old man has been charged after an axe attack in Greymouth.

The teen was attacked from behind by an unknown male, police say.

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".

The daily picket by mine families and supporters has resulted in West Coast contractors refusing to do the sealing work.

A man who admitted saying, "you spy, you die" during a phone call to the Security Intelligence Service (SIS) has been convicted.

About 40 per cent of offenders sentenced to community work in Greymouth do not bother turning up, the Greymouth District Court heard last week.

Twenty-nine figures stood in silence on the Pike River Mine access road this morning - each decked out in overalls, work boots, miner's helmets and the name tags of the 29 men who died in the 2010 mine disaster.

KiwiRail is offering full refunds to Tranz Alpine passengers as it anticipates the fire-hit rail link between Canterbury and the West Coast could be out for at least six weeks.

An English visitor who found Shelley Crooks six weeks after she was reported missing describes the moment the pair met on a West Coast track.

Pike River Mine families have been granted a meeting with PM Bill English, on February 15, as Parliamentary committee considers sealing of mine.