A West Coast institution has been saved from permanent closure. In November last year DB Breweries announced it was planning to end its Monteith`s brewing operation in Greymouth.The Greymouth brewery dates back to 1868; Monteith`s... Read...

A Hokitika councillor who needed 31 blood transfusions, whose partner and parents were told he might not survive, and who had surgeons flown from Wellington to Te Nikau Hospital in Greymouth to support local doctors treating him after... Read...

Two campervans were set alight while people inside were sleeping in them on the West Coast. Read...

Greymouth police are appealing for information about several suspicious fires over the New Year holiday period. Read...

Is rural generalism best for the Coast?In recent weeks, various medics and their union have - unusually for the profession - aired their views in this paper on the use of `rural generalists`, a new breed of doctor increasingly being... Read...

In recent weeks, various medics and their union have aired their views on the use of `rural generalists`, a new breed of doctor increasingly being employed on the West Coast. Read...

Chicks migrating from the West Coast are crash-landing, despite efforts to protect them from man-made light. Read...

Four houses have been damaged by fire in Greymouth in just eight days – and none had working smoke alarms. Read...

Members of Greymouth`s Aotearoa Natives awoke to their house filled with smoke, then discoverd their clubhouse next door was completely engulfed. Read...

Nelson woman blew nearly four times the legal alcohol limit after destroying McDonald`s garden beds. Read...