Former Otago Daily Times journalist Kit Carson died on Saturday after a short battle with cancer. He was 65.
Mr Carson also worked for The Dominion and NZ Truth.
He moved to the West Coast as a reporter in 1983 and was appointed editor of the Greymouth Evening Star in 1995, a position he held until 2005, when he resigned and shifted to Rangiora.
In 1990 he researched and co-wrote the history of the West Coast police, in the book The Longest Beat, and another about the Greymouth floods, Never Surrender.
- Greymouth Star