In a show of holiday spirit, Greymouth residents have rallied to help a boy who lost his Christmas money when he went to spend it on Boxing Day.

A Greymouth family is in ruins following a road crash that claimed the lives of a mother and her teenage son.

A man had to leap on to a car roof to avoid being run over by another car which subsequently smashed through a concrete power pole and careered into a Blaketown house.

A group of tourists had some unexpected excitement on the West Coast when their bus slid into a ditch after being stopped for a police check.

A major slip has completely blocked off the road between Omoto and Greymouth this morning.

A West Coast woman who told a court she could only afford to pay $2 a week to her former landlord was caught out trying to buy $62 of cigarettes by a judge at the supermarket.

A whitebaiter feared he was about to drown when a flash flood swamped his caravan and vehicle in the Taramakau River bed early this morning.

Kiwi Bank was today red-faced after discovering that highly confidential documents had been handed across the counter to a member of the public at the Greymouth branch.

A police guard has been set up outside a derelict Greymouth house that was the target of a suspected arson attack early today.

A West Coast man could have killed or maimed a woman and her young son when he tailgated and then rammed her car high on a bluff on a winding road, a court has heard.

Don Kavanagh falls in love with cross-country travel the way people used to do it.

A Westport man has told a jury the 8.5kg of cannabis police found in his home and vehicle was all for his own use.

Two weeks after thieves busted a dangerous dog out of death row at the Greymouth pound, the facility was again broken into overnight and all the dogs set free,