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Man drives 80km to make a phone call
A West Coast man made the trip after an ongoing phone problem worsened, leaving people in parts of South Westland with intermittent phone coverage.
A West Coast man made the trip after an ongoing phone problem worsened, leaving people in parts of South Westland with intermittent phone coverage.
Two whitebaiters managed to escape a West Coast bach that was silently filling with gas yesterday morning.
A father and son were knocked out in an unprovoked attack outside the Recreation Hotel in Greymouth on Saturday night.
"It was like hooking a hook on an angus bull and slapping it on the backside."
Gloriavale could lose millions of dollars in taxpayer funding over its opposition to identification numbers for preschoolers.
Three years after Solid Energy bought the moribund Pike River coalmine for $7.5 million, its saleable assets have been valued at just $1.48 million.
A rental vehicle was clocked doing 119kph in the 80kph zone near Paroa as the speeding driver headed to the Greymouth Railway Station to return the car.
A 70-year-old pig hunter was knocked unconscious after tumbling 10m down a waterfall in the upper Buller Gorge yesterday while in hot pursuit of his prey.
The inquiry into the sudden death of Cobden toddler Leith Hutchison, who died in April, is ongoing as police await forensic test results from overseas.
A worker has been taken to hospital after being injured in an accident at the Pike River mine site this morning.
Shanar Ruiha Yorke, 36, of Cobden, appeared in Greymouth District Court on Friday on charges following an argument with a taxi driver.
Tyler Corkin Keene had been due to defend charges on Friday, but he was found to be living with one of the main witnesses involved in the hearing.
The victim of a burglary was hustled out of a courtroom and warned by the judge after she was found taking photos on her phone of the three men accused.
A Paroa woman facing charges of possession of cannabis for supply, possession of methamphetamine and possession of a weapon is clinging to a hope she can be let go without convictions.
A concerned motorist snatched the keys from another vehicle after it was driven around a roundabout on the wrong side of the road.
The woman who put Gloriavale cult leader Hopeful Christian in prison says he is no man of God and labelled him a “pervert”.
The woman who put Gloriavale Christian Community guru Hopeful Christian in prison for indecent assault has had her name suppression lifted so she can tell her story.
A Rotomanu farmer who stood trial in March for his part in the starvation and death of nearly 800 cows has been found guilty.
Runanga 11-year-old Aaron Hoy recently became what is claimed to be the youngest person in the world to achieve a black belt in the martial art of Nin-Ka-Do.
A Dunollie man in his early 80s became stranded on his roof yesterday - for the second time in as many months.
A 47-year-old man who said he had been growing cannabis plants to help treat his spina bifida and irritable bowel syndrome was given a 12-month suspended sentence.
Police have launched a full inquiry into the death of a 15-month-old Cobden boy after he was taken to Grey Base Hospital not breathing and suffering cardiac arrest.
Greymouth was close to running out of water yesterday after a connection break prevented the Coal Creek reservoir from refilling.
Glass and hot embers blasted out of an enclosed fireplace at a Hokitika home last night after a can was accidentally thrown on the fire and exploded.
A former Major League pitcher visits Greymouth to find out what happened on a rafting trip 17 years ago.
A car was left wedged in the lounge of a house in Taylorville after a crash just after midnight this morning.