Catherine Hubbard

Siren Gold's application for a mining permit for a gold mine at Sams Creek may have been declined, but opponents of the mine say the fight is not over.

The manager of a community hub that provides food parcels and hot meals says the Government's budget is “inhumane” and a two-pronged attack on people who are already suffering.

Tourism in Nelson Tasman is on the up, with expenditure and guest nights on the rise, but uncertainty looms over the summer if higher fuel costs hit demand for long-haul flights and airline schedules.

Tasman district ratepayers will be hit by a proposed 9.9% average rates increase after councillors agreed to fund cost increases via debt and to defer two community projects.

Motueka's long awaited pool is to face yet another delay after Tasman councillors agreed to pause and defer the project after being informed of $3 million in extra costs.

A council's compliance staff have been subjected to 17 incidents of physical or verbal abuse over six months, and are even facing tirades from parents dropping off kids at school, a council manager says.

A proposal to sell land used to access a Golden Bay beach has left the owners of a kayak business worried they'll have to close.

On the day Jericho Ward was born, his mother Ellie had an inkling something wasn't right. Feeling no movement, she called the midwife and was told to head into hospital immediately.

The last thing Nelson woman Leigh Donoghue remembers on May 14 before waking up in accident and emergency was putting a chair on her berm to give away.

The burden of new regulations factored into Nelson SUP Club's decision not to re-register as an incorporated society and to close its coffers.