Tasman

The region's bus service is the first in New Zealand to receive an exemption to the obstruction rule. Audio

Maintaining Tasman's infrastructure this financial year is expected to cost $3 million more than was budgeted for, and the district's councillors aren't happy.

Police have notified the coroner regarding a jetskier missing in the Cook Strait for a week.

The Waimea Community Dam finally opened on Friday and served as an example of the country's challenges in delivering large infrastructure projects.

Friends of a jetskier missing in the Cook Strait since Monday are still hopeful he will be found.

Kāpiti Boating Club says the man is a retired grandfather and long-time club member.

A merger was last considered in 2012 but failed after a referendum.

Tasman District Council is currently re-consulting on changes that would primarily lower the speed limits on high-risk rural roads and around several rural schools.

Heavy rain warnings and watches have been issued, and people are being told to be prepared.

Green by Nature beat out a council-owned business that has held the contract for three decades.

She told him she hoped he would get cancer and that his house burned down.

Volunteers helped guide the pod of 10 over sandbars until they were no longer visible.

One of a group of 11 whales stranded in Golden Bay has died, but the remaining 10 have been re-floated, according to the Department of Conservation. Audio

One of two pods of pilot whales stranded over the weekend remain on Puponga Beach near Pakawau, as rescuers await high tide at 3:30pm today. Audio

Some have re-stranded while others are swimming in shallow waters.

Police and DOC are investigating after reports of a variable oystercatcher being shot at a beach in Golden Bay.

The dams costs have come in at much more that initially projected.

Two of the 10 whales have died but rescuers have managed to refloat the rest. Audio