Laura Mills

Westpower says West Coast ambitions have been shattered after the Government yesterday rejected plans for the $80million to $100million Waitaha hydro-electricity scheme.

The West Coast Regional Council - which famously demanded more proof that climate change was actually happening - now appears to accept it, but warns of great pain as the as the region adjusts.

A huge landslide at Fox Glacier is moving by 11cm a day and is so large it can be seen in satellite images.

The Westland District Council yesterday reluctantly agreed to spend $465,000 it does not have, to put in rockwork while it digs out the remaining Fox Glacier rubbish dump to prevent it being...

Departing Westland district councillor Des Routhan called four times for Mayor Bruce Smith to resign on Wednesday, claiming the Hokitika Ute Muster last year had run at a far greater loss than...

After a bumper tourist season last summer, West Coast leaders are warning the signs are not so good for the approaching season.

The Social Credit party believes it will be in a position to today lodge an urgent injunction to stop the takeover of Westland Milk Products - on the eve of its sale to Chinese interests.

An epic game of badminton has been played right in the heart of Franz Josef Glacier, where players donned crampons instead of sneakers.

An elderly man who had to fight to evict tenants from his Hari Hari rental home has been left with a $15,000 bill on top of unpaid rent.

With doubt over the future of the Reefton sawmill, there are fears a possible closure could mark not just the end of the Forever Beech story, but the end of sawmilling in the entire Inangahua area.

It really is all hands on deck for the Fox Glacier rubbish clean-up as the army and an 81-year-old Aucklander join in.

The Overseas Investment Office (OIO) is not commenting on a last-minute bid by farmer-shareholders who switched to Fonterra but are owed millions of dollars by Westland Milk Products, to block the...

West Coast-Tasman MP Damien O'Connor has slammed Westland Milk Products over the proposed sale to Chinese-owned Yili, but also says shareholders needed to share the blame because they had failed to...

After years of complaints that weather forecasts for the West Coast are putting off visitors, the MetService has confirmed a series of changes intended to narrow down its forecasting.

The West Coast District Health Board has sent staff to Harihari, after the third death of a child in less than three years.

A Wellington miner who found an aquifer while drilling for garnets around Bruce Bay, now wants to extract the water and export it.

Two people involved in a fatal boating incident in Southland are believed to belong to St Michael and All Angels Church in Christchurch.