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Boxing Day kindness
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.
Two dead in West Coast car crash
A Greymouth family is in ruins following a road crash that claimed the lives of a mother and her teenage son.
Leap onto car roof to avoid being hit
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.
Tourist bus slides into ditch
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.
Major slip blocks road between Omoto and Greymouth
A major slip has completely blocked off the road between Omoto and Greymouth this morning.
Caught out in a supermarket queue
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.
Whitebaiter caught in flash flood: 'I thought I was going to die'
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.
Bank hands over confidential details
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.
Police guard Greymouth house after suspected arson
A police guard has been set up outside a derelict Greymouth house that was the target of a suspected arson attack early today.
'Granddad' molester preys on new victim
A woman has spoken of the horror of discovering that the elderly man all the local kids called 'granddad' was a convicted molester that had targeted her daughter.
Man rams mum, child on high bluff
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.
South Island: Soul on alpine track
Don Kavanagh falls in love with cross-country travel the way people used to do it.