"There were dead animals in drains." A vet has described an horrific case of mistreating cattle on a farm as the worst he has seen.

A desperate plea by 15 bystanders for passing jetboats to rescue a 30-year-old struggling in the chilly waters of the Hokitika Gorge were ignored by the boaties.

Twenty people have rescued an American tourist from a West Coast cave after the woman suffered a suspected broken leg yesterday.

The craggy and wild Main Divide really does split New Zealand into two different landscapes, writes Bronwyn Sell.

A Reefton man who punched and kicked a cow at the Cape Foulwind dairy farm where he worked has been sentenced to community detention and community work.

Bronwyn Sell stays at a family-friendly place with dramatic ocean views near Greymouth.

A search is underway after a French tourist went missing on a mountain hike in Arthur's Pass National Park.

A Chinese tourist who killed a friend in a rental car crash last week is “bereft” over the incident, a court has been told.

A Chinese woman on a trip to New Zealand has pleaded guilty over a West Coast crash that killed her companion and injured two others.

A car driven by tourists was seen on the wrong side of the road shortly before it crashed on the West Coast of the South Island yesterday, killing one.

Officials have changed their tune on a "derelict" Mokihinui house where a pregnant woman had been living.

A police officer is concerned a pregnant woman is living in unsafe conditions in a rundown West Coast house -- but the Buller District Council won't do anything about it.

A man who went missing while exploring remote areas in his four wheel drive in the West Coast has been located.