Great surf and scenery and a passionate local populace impress Elisabeth Easther.

Campbell Burnes sat down with College Sport chief executive Dave Currie, who has been in the job just a few months. This is part one of a two-part interview; read the second in next week's College Sport.

Vinnie Woolston, a model from Raglan who says he was once "just a grom", is the new face of the Yves Saint Laurent men's scent La Nuit de l'Homme.

The new owners of a $1.1m property overlooking Raglan Harbour will also be able to travel around in style.

Tributes are flowing for the brave pilot who made a split-second decision to slam into water instead of crash-landing among hundreds of beach-goers at Raglan.

A light plane plane has crashed into water off Raglan Beach and sunk.

A shelter of the steppes finds a place under the nikau, writes Monique Balvert-O'Connor.

The police and SPCA have carried out a search of a Raglan property as part of an investigation into how the bodies of two cats ended up dead in rubbish bags.

A woman punched a French woman in the jaw, knocking her to the ground, and shortly afterwards punched an Australian woman in the nose, making it bleed.

A man has drowned after being swept away while fishing in Raglan overnight.

The subtropical weather system which brought torrential rain to the Nelson region has abated and been replaced by much more pedestrian weather, MetService says.

The torrential rain that has caused havoc in the Nelson region for the last three days appears to be easing, with conditions expected to improve overnight in most places.

Authorities estimate at least 90 homes in the Tasman District have had some flood inundation as a result of the heavy rain over the past 24 hours.

Minutes before a small tornado tore through Raglan, there was almost no wind and clear skies.

A small tornado brought down a tree, broke windows and damaged a roof in Raglan this afternoon.

Five men who attacked a young French couple as they slept in their campervan on their last night in NZ could be connected to local shearing gangs, say police.

Two French tourists camping overnight in the Waikato were violently attacked after they were accused of not paying "rent" to their attackers.

Don't let the cold weather keep you from the royal waves.