Hokitika

At 86 and confined to a mobility scooter, Frank Schist had openly stated he felt ready to die.

A 41-year-old man was granted name suppression when he made a brief appearance in Greymouth District Court this morning charged with murdering an elderly Hokitika man.

A man has been arrested after reports of a double shooting at a Hokitika house this afternoon.

Hokitika's Westland High School has refused to allow an anti-cancer vaccine to be administered on its premises, a move health bosses say is worrying.

The Hokitika Wildfoods Festival has made it into a list of the world's top unmissable festivals by travel publishers Frommers UK.