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West Coast Regional Council is taking legal advice around consents it issued to enable a controversial private landfill.

A return to pre-Covid levels of tourists driving on the West Coast is raising concern.

Fears a future slip from the Taylorville Resource Park site could wipe out the Greymouth town water treatment plant site remain a worry for the Grey District Council.

West Coast Regional Council staff have been directed to take action on a debt problem, including outstanding rates.

Tensions boiled over between West Coast regional councillors today, when censured former chairperson Allan Birchfield tried to stay for a committee meeting.

West Coast ratepayers will be walloped with a 16.42 percent rates increase after reluctant agreement today by the regional council.

An increase in environmental complaints to the West Coast Regional Council has been dismissed as whinging and moaning by councillor Allan Birchfield, who was sacked as the chairperson in April.

An $11 million boost to improve vulnerable sections of the state highway network on the West Coast has been welcomed. The budget announcement of ...

At this stage, kiwifruit is not listed in the council's pest management plan.

Wild kiwifruit are beginning to emerge across the West Coast, with an infestation on the Karamea River and evidence it is now present throughout South Westland.