Laura Mills

Council leaders on the West Coast are less than enthusiastic about the idea of taking a pay cut in solidarity with ratepayers hit by the Covid-19 lockdown.

As panic buying continues in the face of Covid-19, bread is in such hot demand that one Greymouth bakery has increased its daily production from five loaves to 200.

It can take Pike River Recovery Agency staff working underground 90 minutes to handle each piece of forensic evidence that they recover from the mine drift.

The cost of recovering the entry tunnel to the Pike River mine has blown out dramatically.

A hunting dog has survived a 35m fall down a vertical tomo or sinkhole near the Fox River with barely a scratch.

Work has begun on replacing or repairing almost 300 concrete joints which have failed in the Greymouth floodwall.

Gold prices have soared to an all-time high, bolstering the West Coast mining industry.

The owner of an Auckland property where human remains were found last week encased in concrete, also previously owned a house and section at Blackball.

The Department of Conservation has approved a small-scale hydro-electric power scheme in a creek just north of Whataroa.

Four workers on the West Coast were exposed to 1080 above the maximum daily limit, the Environmental Protection Authority’s (EPA) recent annual report on the aerial use of the poison says.

A science  adviser to Zero Invasive Predators (ZIP) says mice and rats are running around West Coast forests in broad daylight, a sign that something is wrong, and has called for more 1080...

A 1080 drop at Maruia killed 79% of rats — not the 95% the Department of Conservation wanted.

A slip that pushed a digger 30m down a bank, leaving the area unsafe to work in, has delayed the opening of the $12million Paparoa Track "great walk" until March 1.

It is time to consider whether West Coast infrastructure needs more investment, a government minister says.

West Coast iwi claim the Crown is planning to inflict the biggest land grab on South Islanders since the colonial purchases.

Almost seven months after the symbolic re-entry of the Pike River Mine, Work Safe New Zealand has cleared the way for it to properly start.

The New Zealand Deerstalkers Association (NZDA) is demanding answers over the scheduling of some West Coast 1080 drops, saying fawns could starve if the poison drops go ahead.

The New Zealand Deerstalkers Association (NZDA) is demanding answers over the scheduling of some West Coast 1080 drops, saying fawns could starve if the poison drops go ahead.

Nine years after the Pike River Mine exploded with the loss of 29 lives, thoughts are turning to restoring some of the remote mine site to nature.