The vessel didn't have a working radio... lifejackets, charts or other means to navigate.

State Highway 6 has reopened, but some still remain without power on the West Coast.

Don't do anything that puts your safety at risk, the council says

The wild weather was bad news for campers on the grounds of the Westport Trotting Club.

Yesterday in Dunedin it was 35C - today they're facing torrential rain and school's out.

The man died at the scene after hitting a fence, police say.

A man in his fifties has been lost at a river junction near Westport.

Minister says conservation land needs to be protected from bulldozers and diggers.

Domestic violence incident escalated on West Coast.

Westport woman Linda Fenn is locked in a battle with doctors over pain medication.

Five-hour standoff in West Coast town involved armed offenders squad and negotiators.

Neighbours refuse to let go of rooster, who has been waking man in early hours.

The great walk will be open to mountain bikers all year.

Mark Cropp has accepted an offer to undergo free laser tattoo removal.

Companies are offering their support for an ex-prisoner who wants to turn his life around.

Mark Cropp's face reads 'Devast8' - ink he says he got while drunk in prison.

Family of Taylor Marsters, 9, are "broken-hearted" after he died of an asthma attack.

The late-night exerciser was described by police as 'off his face'.

A mother's plea has been answered after her baby's blanket was stolen from a washing line.

Forest & Bird suspects the Government plans to open access to coal.

Legal action by Forest & Bird has prompted a U-turn over the proposed Te Kuha coal mine.

Leukaemia victim needs to take seven morphine tablets daily to alleviate pain.

MP Damien O'Connor seeks probe into claims against Westland Mayor Bruce Smith.

Jack Russell "Jacko" has been trapped down the sinkhole since early yesterday.

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

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

Leanne Ryall left her Domett St home on Friday, was seen a few blocks away, and hasn't been seen since.

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

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

A teenager who showed no remorse for assaulting five people, including a police officer, will spend the next eight months behind bars.