Tracy Neal

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.

The American surgeon who caused a fatal crash near Nelson plans to set up a fund to support a surgeon exchange training programme between New Zealand and the United States. Audio

In the small village of St Arnaud, a once-quiet car repair and salvage business is suddenly a 24/7 operation since the road though the town became the main route south.

The Insurance Council is warning owners of earthquake-damaged homes in Marlborough that banks are cracking down on insurance pay-out spending.

Mapping the seafloor in Marlborough has thrown up some surprises, including that it has shifted since the Kaikōura earthquake, an information agency says.

Four months after their villa was wrecked, North Canterbury farmers Bob and Vicki Todhunter have made a stylish new temporary home in a shearing shed.

Marlborough residents left with badly damaged homes after November's earthquake are worried about a cold winter ahead with no heating.

A third generation farmer in Ward, who lost his home in last November's quake, has chosen to see it as an opportunity to change the way he lives and farms.

A GNS scientist says monitoring of land movement since 2004 shows the Kaikōura earthquake lowered the land by 20 millimetres.

The owner of a Nelson charter boat is astonished a sunken car belonging to a missing man wasn't found sooner, given the nearby wharf is popular place for fishing.

A vehicle resembling that in which Nelson teenager Leo Lipp-Neighbours was last seen seven years ago has been hauled from Nelson Harbour.

Special housing areas that side-step public consultation are causing disquiet among some Nelson city councillors.

Nelson's Christ Church Cathedral needs millions of dollars worth of seismic strengthening and the public may be asked to help raise the funds for the work

The stiff poses of Victorian folk etched in glass and stored in a Nelson archive have slowly made their way into the digital era.

Time and tide are rapidly changing one of the coastal city's most valued natural assets. Video

The chance of another large earthquake within the next month has dropped to 18 percent, GeoNet says.

It seemed a near-hopeless task, but crowds rallied to the calls of desperate, dying whales. Tracy Neal reflects on what has become mainland New Zealand's biggest stranding.

A Golden Bay woman says saving stranded whales is not glamorous and it has to be tackled with a practical approach.

The search for Alan Langdon and his six-year-old daughter, who sailed to Australia on a small yacht amidst a custody dispute, cost more than $40,000, the police say.

Homeowners can expect to pay higher insurance premiums to help fund a restructured fire service.

Nelson-Marlborough's chief medical officer has ordered a review of health services for high-needs people, after Donella Knox murdered her autistic daughter, Ruby.