West Coast

A commissioner appointed for the Te Tai o Poutini Plan has resigned before the hearing panel has formally convened.

BNZ cannot justify terminating its banking relationship with the Gloriavale Christian community as a result of a landmark child labour ruling, the High Court has heard.

Individual and big submitters like district councils are being given until 30 June to make further submissions to the Te Tai o Poutini Plan.

A team of seismologists have attached a laser device to Chorus' fibre cables buried near Haast on the West Coast with the aim of better understanding the internal structure of the Alpine Fault.

A $30 million claim against the West Coast Regional Council by the insurers for the Scenic Hotel Group following a flash flood that ruined its former Franz Josef hotel, has been settled out of court.

The West Coast Conservation Board will visit the Pike River Mine site privately later this month.

West Coast Regional Council chairman Peter Haddock says his recent hospital stay was nothing to do with an alleged altercation involving the council's former chairman.

A report to the Resource Management Committee this week noted seven 'non-compliances' relating to various land-use activities; four of them related to gold mining.

Wellington officials say they see no reason to step in over tensions at West Coast Regional Council.

The West Coast Regional Council has kicked to touch paid up membership of Local Government NZ.

Things are heating up at the West Coast Regional Council with allegations of an altercation involving former chairman Allan Birchfield and councillor Frank Dooley during a meeting.

MetService is warning of more 'intense bursts' of rain, high winds and thunderstorms across much of the country, ahead of a cool change later in the week. Audio

Up to a dozen evacuated residents in the Nelson and Tasman region have been allowed to return to their homes.

Streams and rivers are rising and flooding has been reported in North Taranaki, Civil Defence says. Audio

Floods have seen the river's stopbank washed away and water take a direct path through two local farms.

Material from a diseased Nelson site was briefly dumped at the Taylorville Resource Park landfill, it has been confirmed.

TiGa contends it will earn the West Coast millions but have only a light environmental impact.

A mouse has been at play at the West Coast's premier visitor site, the Pancake Rocks at Punakaiki.

The latest information had not arrived before the proposed plan was publicly notified.

Westland Milk Products is to invest $70 million to expand its manufacturing of dairy protein lactoferrin.