Greymouth Star

Staff working at the Pike River Recovery Agency are to have their contracts extended from June to December.

The Otama Rural Water Supply Bill passed its second reading in Parliament this week, gaining unanimous support.

A mystery explosion that rattled Rapahoe residents on Tuesday night turned out to be the army bomb squad detonating an unexplained device found at an empty house in the township.

If the Government paid to shift people off the flooded south bank at Franz Josef landowners living beside the sea and in flood plains all over the country would be seeking the same, West Coast...

Forest & Bird has described rubbish-strewn South Westland beaches as possibly the ''biggest coastal eco-disaster since the Rena oil spill''.

Westland Mayor Bruce Smith says about 750m of the access road to view the Franz Josef Glacier has gone.

Just a year after the Grey District Council declined iwi representation in a statutory review, it now proposes admitting local iwi Ngati Waewae to an equal seat at the council table.

Power was restored to Haast early yesterday, six days after one of the biggest recorded floods in the Haast River damaged the town's hydro scheme.

The Luminaries cast and crew, including director Claire McCarthy and actors Richard Te Are, who plays Te Rau Tauwhare, an Arahura Valley greenstone hunter, and Himesh Patel (right), who plays Emery...

West Coast police and Fire and Emergency NZ are investigating two suspicious fires which may be arson in Greymouth and Westport at the weekend.

Ngahere Mining Co is buying Birchfield Minerals' mothballed giant gold dredge and buying up three associated Grey Valley dairy farms.