Stories by Brendon McMahon

The West Coast Regional Council says it is aware of 'seepage" from a stopbank at Franz Josef.

Fears are being raised about continued tenure of some family baches on conservation land.

The Grey District Council has been assured the proximity of a dump, taking asbestos and toxic material to the Greymouth water treatment plant, poses little risk.

Greymouth's Mayor Tania Gibson says the thought of toxic waste being dumped just above the town's drinking water source "keeps me awake at night".

More deliberately lit beach fires kept Greymouth firefighters busy again yesterday and last night - the Volunteer Fire Brigade has now fielded 29 calls over 27 days this month.

The Department of Conservation is looking at the decline of 'old growth' kelp beds along the Coast Road and the effects of the marine heatwave on its five marine reserves on the West Coast.

Extraordinarily warm weather and no real rain is creating conditions for algal blooms in West Coast waterways.

Exhausted and frustrated Greymouth firefighters are praying for respite after more deliberately lit fires in the town last night kept them from their beds for several hours.

A prominent 16ha block bordering the seaside settlement of Rapahoe and State Highway 6 could be subdivided into lifestyle-size residential blocks.

Repeated marine heatwaves have seen most 'old growth' kelp beds along the Coast Road between Greymouth and Westport disappear or dwindle in the past 20 years.

The authority for police to drill further new bore holes inside Paparoa National Park, for the continuing investigation into the Pike River Mine disaster, has been delegated to the Department of…

The West Coast Regional Council has given "partial support" to some of the government's proposals - but has concerns.

Relief is in sight for a number of West Coast property owners who found their land had been mistakenly captured in mapping errors for sites of significance to Māori in the proposed Te Tai o Poutini…

The fossil hunters who hacked out a treasured 23 million-year-old whale fossil near Karamea should be "strung and quartered", a West Coast regional councillor says.

A stunning new visitor experience highlighting the beauty of Fox Glacier and representing the Ngāi Tahu creation story has been opened.

A delay to the West Coast Regional Council's 2022 annual report audit has been flagged amid concerns councillors may have to adopt it under duress.

The West Coast Regional Council has spent over $370,000 on "specialised improvements" to a 1080 factory building it owns on the outskirts of Christchurch.

Work is soon to be begin above ground for a new $26 million visitor centre on the West Coast.

The government is "very supportive" of the West Coast council using its $22 million funding for flood protection projects.

Storm-damaged infrastructure often involves a multi-agency approach, the West Coast Regional Council says.

A nearly $300,000 resilience project to ensure the West Coast is strategically connected in the event of a full-scale civil defence emergency is ramping up.

The confusing structure of the region's civil defence organisation has been questioned by West Coast Regional councillors.

The inquiry into the removal of a fossil from where it lay at the mouth of the Little Wanganui River for 23 million years until someone hacked it out with a rock saw has stepped up a notch.

The Waiho River is severely threatening one of the area's largest farms, its farmer says.

The Department of Conservation says it will be ramping up control of feral goats on the West Coast.