Tracy Neal

An artist has cast new light on a flashpoint in Nelson-Marlborough's past.

First Person - RNZ's Nelson correspondent recalls a year not without its challenges - and learning to live with less.

Joy Cowley describes herself as an ordinary person for whom the hard lessons of life have turned out to be the best ones.

The Marlborough District Council is considering widening the buffer between forestry and the coastline in the Sounds, as a way of improving the health of the seafloor.

Home owners renting out their properties over summer need to check they are covered for any damage or loss caused by holiday tenants, the Insurance Council says.

The Department of Conservation in the top of the South Island is urging filmmakers to brush up on protocols and cultural awareness when filming on public land.

Dutch officials have met iwi from Golden Bay/Mohua for the first time, to remember Abel Tasman's first New Zealand landfall and heal old wounds.

The annual sunshine hours competition is hotting up with Blenheim just one hour ahead of newcomer Richmond in what looks to be a photo finish.

The countdown to Friday's reopening of State Highway 1 through Kaikōura has started, but truck drivers won't be celebrating just yet.

Kenneth Wolnak said US universities had given positive responses to an exchange programme but made no commitment so far.

The telecommunications workers' union wants a government inquiry into claims of workers being exploited during the ultra fast broadband roll out.

A man who has been living rough for years in Nelson as a protest has received an apology from Nelson City Council for its disrespectful treatment of him.

A UNESCO award for a heritage photographic collection is a great honour for a Nelson musuem, its chief executive says.

Chorus says it stopped a trainee worker initiative as soon as it was made aware the scheme used volunteers.

A dog once banished from Westport's library after a complaint from the public is now its new volunteer staff member.

Farmers and growers in Marlborough will soon have use of an online tool that tells them how much water they can use on a given day.

A south Marlborough farming couple whose property was torn apart in last November's quake have had to replace the farm's entire infrastructure.

The head of GNS Science wants more stability in funding for the research organisation.

A group that has been trying to save a historic grandstand in Takaka says the community has been poorly served by a decision to pull it down.

Members of the Ward community packed a chapel this week for a special service to mark the one-year anniversary of the Kaikōura earthquake.

As many reflect on last year's Kaikōura earthquake, some of the world's top earthquake scientists are using it as an indicator for the future. Audio

Marlborough's earthquake-creased hills and recent fault line ruptures will be the focus of a convention of international earthquake scientists over the coming week.

New Zealand could reduce deaths by investing more in its roads, including installing median barrier strips, a visiting transport researcher says.

A woman who witnessed a whale stranding on Farewell Spit has developed an invention that aims to help save the lives of struggling whales.

A Nelson home-owner says it's taken more than a year and thousands of dollars to get a consent hearing to build a small rock wall outside his waterfront home.