West Coast

A shop owner on the West Coast is dealing with the damage of half a metre of water flooding inside, after a severe storm overnight.

Two more Hector's dolphins have been found dead on South Island beaches.

Auckland recorded its hottest April temperature since 1998 yesterday afternoon.

Westland Milk Products will be able to discharge milk waste to land from its Hokitika factory under a renewed consent.

A Westport Rating Joint Committee discussion on the town's proposed flood protection scheme has prompted regional council chairman Allan Birchfield to claim "the sea level is not going to rise so…

A 64-year-old man recently reported missing on the West Coast, has been found dead.

Frustrations boiled over yesterday as West Coast councillors heard delays in emergency repairs to protection works in the lower Buller River had left Westport vulnerable to another extreme weather…

The business case for the Westport flood protection scheme is being viewed as a test case by the government.

The West Coast District Health Board has ordered an independent inquiry into the way it organised and communicated the closure of Ziman House rest home at Reefton Hospital a month ago.

The project to to replace Westport's old hospital finally got underway in 2020, after years of delays.

The tourists are coming back, but will one of the country's most special destinations be ready for them?

The West Coast Regional Council has applied to itself for resource consent for first phase works of a Government-funded $12.3 million project along the Waiho (Waiau) River to protect Franz Josef…

Westland Mayor Bruce Smith says a mine in Buller could be a game changer for the region and its ports, and is urging a look at "the bigger picture".

About 20 West Coast District Health Board workers mounted a "union solidarity placard picnic" outside Grey Base Hospital during their lunch break today.

South Westland businesses say the border reopening dates mean they can start edging out of survival mode after two years of hanging on by their fingernails.

Financial uncertainty has not deterred some West Coast business owners who have taken the plunge and set up shop in the midst of the pandemic.

Two new midwives are expected to start work in Greymouth soon - a bright spot for the West Coast DHB in trying to recruit staff across a number of areas.

"Non-urgent" public health work by the West Coast-based Community and Public Health unit is on hold as staff are diverted to the national Covid-19 response, the West Coast DHB has heard.

An urgent $10m flood protection scheme for Westport could grow larger, with the cost falling on ratepayers if central Government doesn't contribute.

The Tourism Minister has acknowledged businesses are concerned about staffing ahead of the border reopening, but says support will be there.