West Coast

A report on the risk of the West Coast Regional Council headquarters collapsing in an earthquake might make staff eat lunch at their desks.

West Coast mayors are calling for a halt to identifying significant natural areas (SNAs) on private land, after suggestions that the process could be paused in the Far North.

Cycling and bike trails are important but trucks are the region's lifeline, the regional council chair says.

The acting chief executive of the West Coast Regional Council, Heather Mabin, has been given authority to sign off on loan documents in the continuing absence of council chief executive Vin Smith.

Forest and Bird says there is no truth to comments that have implicated it in a bid to roll West Coast Regional Council chairman Allan Birchfield.

The notoriously rainy West Coast is receiving even more wet weather than usual this autumn and farmers say it is a bit of a worry. The notoriously rainy West Coast...

A search and rescue operation is underway after a rafter was reported missing on the Ahaura River inland from Greymouth yesterday.

Development West Coast has begun distributing funds to businesses affected by the lack of tourism due to Covid-19.

If West Coast Regional Council chair Allan Birchfield is unseated, his deputy wants the job.

Beleaguered West Coast Regional Council chairman Allan Birchfield has rejected claims that he bullied council staff and tried to interfere with resource consent decisions.

The death of a nine-year-old girl, who drowned while out whitebaiting with her step-grandfather, may have been avoided if she had been wearing a lifejacket, the coroner says.

An attempted coup is underway at the West Coast Regional Council with a bid to roll the chairperson Allan Birchfield.

Reefton is not the first town in New Zealand to offer Covid-19 vaccines to the wider community - Murchison has beaten it by a month.

The Covid-19 vaccine is being offered to all residents in a small West Coast town, while overstayers who get the vaccine will not have their details shared and a new ad campaign has launched targeting…

Field inspections will begin on the West Coast this winter to decide if significant natural areas (SNAs) spotted by researchers using maps, are in fact worth protecting.

The company hoping to reopen the old Sugarloaf quarry in South Westland says it needs access to stewardship conservation land to minimise visual impact, maximise the resource and do the job safely.

The West Coast Regional Council has taken no further action against two private dumps that were found to be bending the rules of their resource consents.

The Reefton company that had been planning to take contaminated waste from Christchurch has now pulled out of the deal.