I’m thrilled to be supporting the construction of the Totara River Rail Bridge, ensuring visitors can once again ride this ...

Travel to the west coast of New Zealand’s South Island (known by the Māori name Te Tai Poutini) and you’ll find turquoise lakes, historic mining towns and challenging – but beautiful – hiking tracks.

The South Island’s West Coast is easily one of the best road trips in the world. Photo / BareKiwi This article was one of Herald Travel’s top stories of 2024.

By Joe Shaw of RNZ. A venomous sea snake has been found on the South Island’s West Coast – the second one to be discovered on New Zealand’s shores in less than a week.

The Empire is real-life West Coast. I wondered if Mr Savage could see the nude girlie calendar behind the bar. Past the pool table was the women's toilet with a sign that warned of a weight limit ...

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 ...

While the Paparoa Track is the first new Great Walk in 25 years, it’s not as if the South Island is lacking in natural grandeur. On my drive to the West Coast, I could barely get through a ...

People in New Zealand were advised to stay away from the shore after an earthquake measuring magnitude 6.8 struck off the coast of South Island on Tuesday.. The quake struck at a depth of 33km off ...