A driver was swept more than 200m downstream and found clinging to a tree after his small truck went over a bank and into the Buller River.

"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.

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.

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 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.

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.