Kylie Coleman (left) and three of the other seven volunteers who worked together to pick up dead rats that washed up on a West Coast beach. Photo / Supplied, Kylie Coleman The theory that it was ...

An entire beach at Punakaiki on the South Island's West Coast has disappeared in under a year, with the loss of 30,000 cubic metres of sand. West Coast Regional Council rivers and drainage ...

It's a striking vision of New Zealand's two highest mountains ... Stand for a few minutes and you notice one other curiosity about this west coast town – there are typically almost as many ...

With rugged coastlines, black sand beaches, rainforests, glaciers and rivers running down from the high Southern Alps, the wild West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island is one of the country’s most ...

"We're old age pensioners who aren't breaking any laws and never have," says a man who feels he is the prime suspect in a ...

Nature has been hard at work in her sculpture garden on the West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island ... profusion along its evocative black sand beach. Like little Anna Paquin in The Piano ...

This is the country’s most famous surfing beach. It is found on the west coast and a half-hour drive from Auckland. Rugged cliffs frame the sea and the lush bush of the Waitakere Ranges provides ...