Seized pounamu welcomed home
- Friday, 27 January 2012

Te Runanga o Makaawhio upoko Richard Wallace accepts some of the returned pounamu seized by Customs, from Customs deputy comptroller Robert Lake after a ceremony at Rehua Marae, in Christchurch, yeste

Health

PM to ‘open’ clinic
By Laura Mills
- Wednesday, 22 September 2010

In what is believed to be a New Zealand ‘first’, Prime Minister John Key will open the new GP practice in Greymouth next month without setting foot in town.

Surgeons paid $2500 a day
By Laura Mills
- Wednesday, 18 August 2010

Locum surgeons on the West Coast are earning up to $2500 a day — $1000 more than the Prime Minister and about 25 times that of the median income in Greymouth.

Education

Principal takes time out
By Laura Mills
- Thursday, 19 January 2012

The principal of beleaguered Greymouth High School, Jim Luders, has taken study leave for a year.

Economics winner
By Emma Monk
- Thursday, 29 December 2011

Jack Gifford holds up his certificate from the 2011 NZ Economics competition. He scored in the top 5% in New Zealand and received a high...

Politics

Widow takes seat
- Tuesday, 15 March 2011

It was a poignant moment at the Grey District Council meeting last night when the widow of former councillor, Milton Osborne, assumed his seat at...

Widow unopposed
- Friday, 04 March 2011

The widow of former Grey district councillor Milton Osborne, killed in the Pike River Mine disaster, has been elected unopposed to her husband’s...

Sport

New hockey turf to be lifted
By Emma Monk
- Friday, 27 January 2012

Westport’s new artificial hockey turf is to be lifted.

Rugby ‘royalty’ to visit South Westland
By Tui Bromley
- Thursday, 26 January 2012

It could be raining All Blacks in South Westland next week, with four members of the Canterbury Crusaders rugby team set to touch down in Ross,...

Business

Business unit disbanded
By Cheryl Riley
- Wednesday, 30 March 2011

After less than three years the Westland Business Unit has been disbanded.

Slow start to new West Coast business awards scheme
By Tui Bromley
- Monday, 28 March 2011

The West Coast business sector has been backward in coming forward for the inaugural Leading Light Business Excellence Awards.

Hokitika

Church thieves come up short
By Andrew Ashton
- Friday, 27 January 2012

All Saints Anglican Church parishioners were relieved yesterday to hear that a break-in at their Hokitika church had not jeopardised Sunday...

New beach access sign dispute
By Cheryl Riley
- Thursday, 26 January 2012

Controversy over a Hokitika beach sign continues, with a new dispute over a proposed replacement.

Pike River Disaster

Mine body recovery ‘two to four years’ away
By Laura Mills
- Tuesday, 17 January 2012

Grey District Mayor Tony Kokshoorn is due to fly to Wellington in the next few weeks to meet the Prime Minister and Pike River Mine receivers in a...

Pike probe to focus on blast cause
By Laura Mills
- Thursday, 12 January 2012

The Pike River Royal Commission of Inquiry will hear from former mine managers and Australian experts next month, when it finally asks ‘what...

Aust mining experts to resume Pike seal
By Laura Mills
- Wednesday, 04 January 2012

Australian underground mining experts will be in Greymouth on January 16 to start sealing part of the Pike River Mine, a crucial step in reopening...

Pike inquiry's first phase begins
By Jo Keppel
- Monday, 11 July 2011

Evidence received so far by the Royal Commission into the Pike River Mine tragedy raised many issues and questions, counsel assisting the...