A search and rescue operation is under way after a rafter went missing on the Ahaura River yesterday.Police received a report just before 5.30pm on Sunday that a man had fallen from a raft into the river, inland from Greymouth,... Read...
The residents of a Christchurch house were able to escape unharmed, while an unoccupied house on the West Coast was destroyed in a suspicious blaze. Read...
The $61 million re-entry programme into the Pike River mine will come to an end with a retreat from the mine to begin next week.The Greymouth Star reported the Pike River Recover Agency informed the families of the 29 victims of... Read...
By RNZ A West Coast flooring company must pay out more than $160,000 after a worker was killed by solvent fumes.The man was laying carpet in a Greymouth building in March 2019 and was using a strong solvent-based adhesive.A... Read...
RUGBY The Black Ferns Sevens are through to the final at the latest World Sevens event in Singapore More...
BUSINESS Local Government New Zealand wants the coalition government to seriously consider returning the GST charged on rates, back to councils More...