The West Coast mayors and leaders say the Greymouth Police Station is in a dire condition, forcing some staff to work from home last year and others from the "booze bus".
The owner of a West Coast business that housed a "significant" underground commercial cannabis growing operation has been found guilty of two counts of cultivating cannabis.
Four government agencies are being accused of knowingly allowing abuse to happen at Gloriavale, in court action brought by a leavers' lawyer who describes the community as a "sex cult cloaked in Christianity".
Blanket speed reductions across West Coast roads will be rolled back by the end of the year with the government announcing a new timeline ending the "road to zero" safety campaign.
Armed police entered a West Coast property under the cover of darkness three times as part of a covert operation that cracked an alleged underground drug venture at Cowboy Paradise.
A trial has opened for two men facing a raft of charges from the alleged operation of a "sophisticated" drug bunker running underground at a Wild West-themed business at Milltown.
A trial has opened for two men facing a raft of charges from the alleged operation of a "sophisticated" drug bunker running underground at a Wild West-themed business on the West Coast.
A Reefton Distilling Company employee who released almost $40,000 worth of highly flammable ethanol after he was sacked could have caused ‘‘catastrophic’’ harm
A man charged with more than 20 counts of sexual offending against children at the Gloriavale Christian community has been sentenced to 11 years and 10 months' jail.