An environmental watchdog group says it's disgraceful the government is spending millions of dollars to help re-establish a gold mine on the West Coast. The Provincial Growth Fund has approved a $15 million loan so Tasman Mining Limited can begin......
A multi-agency response to identify risks from old landfills has been launched today by the Ministry for the Environment. The project will be led by the ministry and 16 regional councils in collaboration with Local Government New Zealand and the Department......
Money from a newly established community trust fund will help fix an old landfill at Hector on the West Coast. The old coal mining dump filled with industrial waste and asbestos was further eroded last weekend because of a high tide and strong winds......
Civil Defence says it is expecting potentially hazardous king tides and high seas on the West Coast from today until next Tuesday. A heavy southwest swell is due at coastal areas tomorrow afternoon, accompanied by gale south-westerlies. Waves are......
New Zealand has a number of fronts coming in over the next week and the West Coast is most exposed with rainfall totals quite high over the four days ahead. Over 200mm is forecast between now and the end of Sunday on some parts of the West Coast, while......
Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage has criticised Westland District Council for not having the to cash clean up Fox River, but the mayor says the region's few ratepayers should not need to pay. DOC took over the cleanup, dubbed Operation Tidy Fox......
Severe weather events and rising sea levels are forcing councils to get serious about the way they manage old rubbish dumps near waterways. The clean-up is still underway along the Fox River after severe flooding exposed a disused landfill in late......
Police Commissioner Mike Bush has insisted the information recorded in the Pike River Mine black box after the first explosion is not helpful. Families of the Pike River miners are accusing police of hiding the existence of the Scada data between the......
It's likely to be September before Pike River Recovery Agency personnel move beyond the 170-metre mark in the mine's drift. No items of interest have been found in the latest forensic search of the tunnel between 30 and 170 metres, however,......
