Police spent about $22,000 roping in 50 officers to protect a mining forum that did not attract a single protester. Police came from around the South Island to Shantytown outside Greymouth in mid-April for a national mining forum... Read...
A search and rescue operation is under way after a rafter went missing on the Ahaura River yesterday.Police received a report just before 5.30pm on Sunday that a man had fallen from a raft into the river, inland from Greymouth,... Read...
The residents of a Christchurch house were able to escape unharmed, while an unoccupied house on the West Coast was destroyed in a suspicious blaze. Read...
The $61 million re-entry programme into the Pike River mine will come to an end with a retreat from the mine to begin next week.The Greymouth Star reported the Pike River Recover Agency informed the families of the 29 victims of... Read...
By RNZ A West Coast flooring company must pay out more than $160,000 after a worker was killed by solvent fumes.The man was laying carpet in a Greymouth building in March 2019 and was using a strong solvent-based adhesive.A... Read...