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Cancer sufferer guilty of cannabis possession
Leukaemia victim needs to take seven morphine tablets daily to alleviate pain.
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.
The bird was thought extinct until 2013 when sightings prompted it to be reclassified.
Cass Square took a hammering from two recent big events in the rain.
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.
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.
A woman who stole a cellphone from the Greymouth Courthouse office stood in the court dock yesterday to admit the theft.
A jetboater has gone viral on social media after posting a misadventure in his boat on Facebook.
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 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.
An outdoors survival expert says water and shelter were the keys to staying alive for unexpected and lengthy times in the bush.
"Nobody knows, until it actually happens to you." - Raywynne Richmond's 42-year-old daughter, Kim, has been missing for six months.
A fire burning on the tracks of the Christchurch to Greymouth rail line has brought the TranzAlpine and some freight services to a
The Local Government Commission's review of the structure of local government on the West Coast is a "complete waste of money", says Westland Mayor Bruce Smith.
An unexploded mortar shell found by children at the historic goldmining town of Waiuta has been deactivated by the army bomb disposal squad.