Jamie Cleine

Housing is identified as a critical issue for Westport as it rebuilds from severe flooding. Today the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern visited flood-hit Westport, where 100 homes have been deemed… Audio

Some normality is returning to Westport as schools reopen in the town, just over a week on from its devastating floods.

Around 100 homes have been red stickered - meaning they are uninhabitable, and… Audio

Some routine is also returning to Westport with its three main schools welcoming back students tomorrow.

 Around 100 homes have been red stickered, another 400 yellow stickered and the clean up is… Audio

Efforts continue in Westport today to find shelter for hundreds of people displaced by serious flooding.

Eighty-nine homes in the town have been red-stickered, and for 95 people, Westport South… Audio

Sixty-five homes in Westport have been red stickered after the weekend's devastating floods, meaning residents can't return home. Just over 300 have been yellow stickered and about 1800 have no or… Audio

The mayor of Buller estimates up to 100 people could be left without a home following the weekend's flooding on the West Coast.

While over 2000 people have been cleared to return home, more than 100… Video, Audio

Residents evacuated in flood-hit Buller are still reeling this morning.

Close to a thousand people had to flee to evacuation centres and at least one hundred homes have been flooded.

Jamie Cleine is… Audio

From the West Coast is the Mayor of Buller, Jamie Cleine. Audio

More than 600 homes have been evacuated in Westport as the Buller River threatens to breach its banks. Kim Hill spoke with Buller District Council Mayor Jamie Cleine in Westport, where voluntary… Audio

A state of emergency has been declared in Buller - because of heavy rain and flooding, in what's been described as a one in 50 year event.

Residents in low lying areas, or those who've had trouble… Video, Audio

The West Coast town of Reefton could soon claim the title of the safest place in the country from Covid-19. Due to its isolated location, West Coast District Health Board decided that it would make… Audio

While many and various events up and down the South Island have been cancelled due to being locked down in Covid-19 alert level 2, some of the regions mayors insist its where they need to be. Video, Audio

Westport is earmarked to become the West Coast's main port of call.

The remote coastal town has been singled out to receive most of a $7 million dollar Government-backed investment in the coast's… Audio

Rare earth minerals thrown up by the Alpine Fault and deposited in West Coast soils are a potentially valuable export commodity. But there's been no viable way of shipping them to export markets. A… Audio

Businesses on the West Coast of the South Island say with only a handful of Covid-19 cases, they should be the first to be allowed to open their doors.

The government will set out today what Alert… Audio

Businesses on the South Island's West Coast are agitating for permission to reopen early, because their region has had only five cases of Covid-19.

The Government will say today what Alert Level 2… Audio

It's the time of the week where we pick one of New Zealand's local leaders to speak to. This week we head to Buller to get to know its Mayor Jamie Cleine. Audio