Nelson Region

The Nelson City Council has shown initial interest in supporting co-housing developments in the city.

One person has died in a house fire in Nelson.

A Nelson artist says he's disappointed that a key element of the Nelson-Tasman region will no longer feature in its main gateway.

A government-backed plan to get more people out trapping pests has been launched in Nelson.

Tasman District Council is planning to build its own $6.5 million power plant on the proposed Waimea Dam.

A woman was killed and a second woman was injured in a quad bike accident near Nelson this afternoon.

A man who was caught taking photos of bikini-clad girls on a beach in Nelson has had his conviction quashed by the Supreme Court.

A heritage concert venue in Nelson re-opens this weekend after an $8 million earthquake strengthening project.

An increasing number of storms will force more changes to forestry practices, a Nelson-based forest company says.

Five people reported overdue from a caving trip in the Motueka Valley have been found.

Locals near Murchison who were forced to endure a digital detox for 10 days after a lightning strike knocked out cell phone and internet services are now back online.

A Nelson-based iwi says it has to keep growing pine forests in the Maitai Valley near Nelson, even though it wants some of the land for other things.

A formal complaint has been laid by Nelson's mayor after a councillor confronted colleagues over a decision to reduce funding for a zoo run by his wife.

A Nelson woman accused of rubbing rat poison on the face of MP Nick Smith has strongly denied the claim in the Nelson District Court.

More needs to be done to deal with severe horticultural labour shortages, which will only get worse, fruit growers in Tasman say.

The driver charged in relation to a car crash in Nelson in which a baby later died, has appeared in the district court.

Six hundred more trucks have been forced off the road in the safety alert over cracked and inadequate towing connections.