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Long-awaited work to improve road and rail connections at Carseldine is forcing vehicles out of a car park and onto a crammed footpath.

Rocks Rd around Nelson’s waterfront closed from 10.30am on Monday morning and reopened about 3.30pm. Earlier this month a 20 metre section of the pedestrian path and handrail washed away in a storm, and a temporary scaffold path has been in place since. Waka Kotahi NZTA spokesman Andy Knackstedt said the latest storm had had only a minimal effect on the damaged section. Braden Fastier/Nelson Mail Waves were lashing at the site where part of the pedestrian was washed away in a storm earlier in the month. “Contractors will be back on site today to check over the temporary scaffold footp...

It was a busy day for the rescue helicopter crew, airlifting to safety a baby who suffered burns, a motorcyclist and a mountainbiker, who came a cropper in separate accidents.

Simon Maude/Stuff Firefighters were called out to a vehicle fire and a truck rollover in the Tasman District on Monday. (File photo) Firefighters across the Tasman District have been called to a ute on fire in a forestry block and a truck rollover on the Spooner Range. The incidents occurred within half an hour of each other on Monday morning. A police spokesman said police were called to a vehicle crash on Kerr Hill Rd, Golden Downs at 10.30am. The road was not blocked and there were no injuries. Southern fire communications centre shift manager Brent Dunn​ said fire crews from Wakefiel...