- Thu, 02 September 2010

Police have not charged anyone with ill-treating a dog after it was dragged along the road behind a four-wheel-drive vehicle, in Greymouth just after midnight yesterday.

Health

By Laura Mills
- Wed, 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...

By Andrew Ashton
- Thu, 01 July 2010

Staff at the Hokitika Health Centre yesterday celebrated the latest in a long line of milestones yesterday as Andrea Beecroft chalked up 30 years...

Education

By Viv Logie
- Mon, 30 August 2010

Reefton is set to lose its ‘digger school’ and extractives course as Tai Poutini Polytechnic moves it closer to Greymouth.

By Lisa Rangi
- Mon, 23 August 2010

St Patrick’s Primary School will wind back the clock when it digs up two time capsules, which have lain buried since the current school was built...

Politics

By Laura Mills
- Fri, 20 August 2010

Tony Kokshoorn was the only West Coast mayor to be returned to office unopposed this morning, winning his third term.

By Andrew Ashton
- Thu, 19 August 2010

Kawhaka farmer and Tb Free West Coast committee member Kees van Beek has spiced up the Westland District Council elections by standing on a pro-...

Sport

By Matt Kersten
- Thu, 02 September 2010

As the West Coast Heartland Championship rugby side gears up for its first home match of the season, so too are the ring leaders of a support...

- Fri, 27 August 2010

West Coast boxing trainer Rhys Morgan has been confirmed as co-coach of the New Zealand boxing team for the 19th Commonwealth Games, in Delhi,...

Business

By Andrew Ashton
- Mon, 30 August 2010

“Passion and flair” is the secret recipe to successful dining, according two Hokitika chefs nominated for a national hospitality award.

By Laura Mills and Tui Bromley
- Fri, 27 August 2010

Hokitika Wildfoods Festival patrons will be quaffing a new beer in 2011, with the Westland District Council today turning its back on the...

Hokitika

By Andrew Ashton
- Thu, 02 September 2010

Wildfoods festival organisers have said they are not worried about North Island “copycats” after it was announced that Napier would this year host...

By Andrew Ashton
- Wed, 01 September 2010

With voting in local body elections just around the corner that will see Westland Mayor Maureen Pugh challenged for her position for the first...