Tracy Neal

Questions remain over the future of the port of Westport a year after cement firm Holcim pulled out of the region.

The Insurance Council is confident most claims for Canterbury homes following the November quake will be settled by the end of the year, its chief executive says. Audio

The most dramatic changes to Marlborough's Pelorus Sound over the last millenium happened in the last century and a half, a new report says.

Feral pigs that have run rampant on the Auckland Islands will be targeted in a large scale pest removal plan for the main island in the group of subantarctic islands, Conservation Minister Maggie…

A Marlborough eco-tourism operator is backing the Department of Conservation's move to ban new marine wildlife viewing permits.

New guidelines designed to make it safer for truck drivers to swap vehicles at the ferry terminal have made it more dangerous, some drivers say.

A community group fighting to save an historic wooden grandstand in Golden Bay has sent Tasman District Council a plan on how it might be kept on site at Takaka Showgrounds. Audio

The low-lying coastal town might have to be moved further inland as climate change takes hold, a councillor has suggested. Audio

With each tourist technically allowed six crayfish, and boats taking out 80 people per day up to 200 days a year, fishers are warning Kaikōura's famous crayfish are under threat.

A successful conservation plan used in the Abel Tasman National Park is now being considered for New Zealand's historic Molesworth high country station.

A New Zealander has been appointed by the British government to lead the trade talks with the rest of the world as Britain leaves the European Union.

Police say they are disappointed that a company has not honoured its obligations to fix problems with special crime-fighting software before it went into liquidation.

A closed-down roadside cafe on the South Island's alternative highway aims to reopen with the Transport Agency's help footing a $15,000 resource consent bill.

An order to remove flat oysters from the Marlborough Sounds spells the end of the industry there, a local farmer says.

A Nelson resident says the city council is using a back-door way to build more houses that are unlikely to be affordable anyway.

A gig and a comedy show are just some of the ways the residents of Ward are coming together to support one another after the Kaikōura earthquake.

John Key has received the highest accolade in the Queen's Birthday honours list announced today.

A new Civil Aviation Authority app aims to test pilots' knowledge of the plane before take-off and avoid simple errors when flying, such as running out of fuel.

A Christchurch landscape architect is spearheading a fund-raising campaign to save a quake-damaged stone church near the Marlborough coastline.

A Nelson-based World War II pilot who cheated death on wartime raids over Europe now feels cheated out of a government-subsidised plaque for a headstone.

A group of sea cadets - boys and girls aged 13 to 18 - will sail from Nelson to Fiji on a 20m yacht to provide aid and collect plankton for international researchers.

First Person - After today's Fairfax and NZME merger rejection, Nelson Mail alumni Tracy Neal visits her old paper at a crucial time in its history. Video

The Nelson Marlborough DHB is set to begin its review in response to the case of a severely autistic 20-year-old murdered by her mother.

A Nelson couple have been sentenced after defrauding about $245,000 from the Ministry of Social Development over 15 years.

Seal populations displaced from a coastal sanctuary by the Kaikōura earthquake are recovering, the Department of Conservation says.