St John volunteers in shock after station put on the market without their knowledge.

Backer believes the Coast was in a "pretty strong position" to gain the funding.

Police have confirmed a second sighting of missing Westport woman Leanne Ryall on Friday.

There has been a "monster" increase in visitors at Franz Josef Glacier.

I have never had a crash happen so close ... that I just had to walk outside.

Stoats ate almost every chick and egg in a Fiordland crested penguin research project.

Police have suspended active searches for missing Westport mother Leanne Ryall.

Enjoy the fine weather while it lasts because rain is on the way.

Westport woman Leanne Ryall was last seen at her home early yesterday morning.

Autumn's cooler temperatures starting to settle in - but sunshine continues.

The Grey District Council has voted to allow Easter Sunday trading.

This year's annual cannabis operation on the Coast netted less than last year.

A man has been charged with indecent assault at a makeshift Wildfoods Festival campground in Hokitika.

A delegation representing Chinese investors came to Hokitika last Thursday to meet the three Coast mayors.

Police executed the search warrants in an effort to reduce social harm from drugs.

"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."

A small-town school has four empty classroom and has lost 80 students in four years following local job losses.

For the first time in more than 60 years, a small-town New Zealand newspaper could not print.

A caregiver who belatedly admitted causing the death of a toddler after shaking it so violently in frustration has been jailed five and a half years.

A Buller woman has become the first woman to head a rugby board in New Zealand.

A former owner of sunken vessel Francie says NZ risks another major boating tragedy if maritime rules are not overhauled.

GNS said it could be a delayed aftershock from 1994.

A Queenstown consortium has bought historic steam train.

Development West Coast chairman John Sturgeon has had his term cut short by four months.

Another witness has reported seeing strange lights over Greymouth last week.

A Westland District Council staff member is at the centre of an SFO probe.

A 33-year-old man has been charged after an axe attack in Greymouth.

Twenty-four-year-old Greymouth glass worker Sarah Bellis took on the big boys and won to be the last car standing in Saturday's demolition derby.

A terrible season with persistent rain, little sunshine and depressed prices is proving to be "the perfect storm" for stressed West Coast farmers.

Shelley Crooks has returned home and taken her first steps on crutches, after her incredible survival after being lost in rugged West Coast bush for six weeks.