The Wales shearing team went within half-a-second of completing another western rout for their country when members Gwion Evans was beaten by just 0.018pts in the Reefton Shears Open final on Saturday. Read...
A Reefton man who punched and kicked a cow at the Cape Foulwind dairy farm where he worked has been sentenced to community detention and community work.Cameron George Intemann Hurst, 21, pleaded guilty to two charges of ill treatment... Read...
A Canadian nomad who has returned to traverse the length of New Zealand again after 40 years says cycling into Reefton was `a back-to-the-future moment`. Read...
A Reefton man has pleaded guilty to pulling a cow to the ground by its tail and punching and kicking it.Cameron George Intemann Hurst, 21, of Reefton, had a sentence indication hearing in Westport District Court last week.Judge... Read...
Gold miner OceanaGold is examining a `robust` case for exploration at its Blackwater mine near Reefton, just as its site nearby inches closer to shutdown. Read...
The main route between the West Coast and Nelson has reopened after a fatal crash in the Buller Gorge which forced motorists to take a lengthy detour through Reefton. Read...
Two Reefton women who were caught in the bush as 1080 poison rained from the sky last summer are now both reporting ill health.An official investigation into the incident has been reopened.Sisters Gwen Gardner and Kathleen Bartlett... Read...