Even the rain has a five-star edge at Te Waonui Forest Retreat, finds Bronwyn Sell.

Eighty five years ago the carrier that was to become Hawaiian Airlines started commercial flights using a plane dubbed the "ugly duckling".

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 blood-borne, tick-carried parasite, which causes serious a disease in cattle, has been identified for the first time on the West Coast.

'Luckily for me, the van was sturdy.' A Greymouth woman has recounted the moment a massive boulder crashed into the vehicle she was sitting in.

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.

A golden retriever has been rescued after being trapped down a hole on the West Coast for five days.

Emergency services are continuing to search for a man who was swept away in a tributary of the Upper Grey River this morning.

A terrified Auckland mother was bashed in the head after confronting an intruder she found standing over her baby's cot on Father's Day, police say.

Two men who stole a car and dog were delivered to police in the back of a chiller van after a spectacular citizens' arrest in South Westland.

Five new marine reserves have been officially opened on the West Coast today.

A man has made off with $100 in coins after robbing a West Coast dairy at gunpoint last night, police say.

A man has been cut out of his truck after it crashed on the West Coast this morning, injuring both his legs.