Tracy Neal

Unrest continues around some staff employment procedures at a Nelson City Council-owned maintenance firm.

The Buller District Council wants mining company money earmarked to fix an old landfill diverted to a new flood warning system for Westport.

Early weather predictions show up to four cyclones could hit Fiji this season, forcing 40 yachts to take shelter at Port Denarau.

A maritime lawyer says there may be a legal argument for allowing foreign yachts into New Zealand when they can prove where they have been through electronic tracking.

The Defence Force is to help with efforts to enforce the country's Covid-19 border restrictions at sea.

The New Zealand Drug Foundation said the medical cannabis industry in New Zealand will face competition from overseas medical cannabis companies.

A Thailand cannabis company believed its low-priced imports may eventually undercut New Zealand's cannabis market, and investors were not being properly warned. But New Zealand's current draft laws…

The ski season in Nelson-Marlborough has ended as the shortest on record.

More than 90 percent of sheep and beef farmers support biodiversity on their farms, a new study has found.

Pet owners will lead, carry or coax their treasured moggies, pups, lambs and birds to Nelson Cathedral on Sunday for a service arranged especially to bless them.

Two years after medicinal cannabis was made legal in Britain many doctors were still not prescribing it, and New Zealand's GPs - with only one product approved for use - appear to be in the same camp.

A plan to build hundreds of new homes in a rural valley five minutes from the centre of Nelson city has triggered a groundswell of opposition before an application has even been lodged. Video

Foreign yachties seeking refuge in New Zealand from seasonal Pacific cyclones are baffled by the response not to let them in.

Councils should be encouraged to leave room for community gardens in new subdivisions, Green Party co-leader James Shaw says.

Organisers of next February's Marlborough Wine & Food Festival have pulled the plug early.

A Siberian husky has been classified as menacing and will be required to be muzzled in public after it attacked sheep in Stanley Whitehead Reserve.

Forest & Bird is alarmed that some conservation land where tahr numbers need to be reduced is excluded from the plan for control operations this year.

A German backpacker fighting for foreign workers to be allowed to stay in New Zealand has run out of options.

A sauvignon blanc from Nelson winery Seifried Estate has won gold at an international event in Germany.

Grey District's mayor says decades of head-scratching over how to generate economic activity in the region stricken by decline appeared to have been partly solved by Covid-19.

A Nelson medicinal cannabis seller says the nature of her trade is the likely reason Kiwibank has dropped her as a client.

A Nelson supermarket is to trial a dedicated sign language aisle at its checkout as masks and perspex screens used as barriers against Covid-19 cause issues for people with hearing problems.

Councils around the country have teamed up to support the idea of four-year terms for central and local government.

The top of the South Island's aquaculture industry leaders say a $20 million government investment is the missing piece of the puzzle for Golden Bay's burgeoning mussel industry.

The study published today in the British Medical Journal shows pregnant women are at a higher risk from the effects of Covid-19 and more likely to give birth early.