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One dead after single vehicle crash on West Coast
The crash occurred on the Karamea Highway in Little Wanganui about 1.20pm

Duavata wins Bula 7s, Fiji and New Zealand claim Sigatoka titles
Duavata, Wanganui and other teams that played featured Fijian players who are working in New Zealand under the Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) scheme.

Wanganui River bank protection 'urgent'
Work to bolster stopbanks on the south bank of the Whanganui River at Hari Hari "needs doing urgently".

Hari Hari farms face $1m flood damage bill and no insurance
Two farms severely flooded last week when the Wanganui River broke through a hole in the stopbank face a repair bill of at least $1 million - and with no insurance.

Hari Hari farmers flooded for the second time in a fortnight
South Westland farmers are counting the cost after a flooded Wanganui River sent a deluge through their land for the second time in a fortnight.

Repairs ordered for flood-prone South Westland district
One West Coast councillor offered to pay for a temporary fix to Wanganui River after flooding badly affected his neighbours.

Theft of 23 million-year-old fossil under investigation
Authorities are investigating the removal of a locally treasured whale fossil from the mouth of the Little Wanganui River, near Karamea.

'Team effort' saves man from drowning at Whanganui's Castlecliff Beach
A bodyboarder was taken to hospital in critical condition after being rescued at Castlecliff Beach in "a real team effort". Chairman of the Wanganui Surf Lifeguard Service James Newell said lifeguards were alerted to an unconscious...

Bicycle racks temporarily disabled on public buses across NZ
The restriction, which affects buses in regions including Canterbury, Manawatu, Wanganui and Wellington, will begin from Saturday.

Hari Hari river threat ‘a pretty bad sort of situation’
A flood risk fix for the Wanganui River at Hari Hari will be further addressed in a riverbank meeting this Friday.

Council bid to divert Wanganui River
Floods have seen the river's stopbank washed away and water take a direct path through two local farms.

Stop banks 'strangle' West Coast river over 60 years
Stopbanks have "strangled" South Westland's Wanganui River so much over decades the riverbed is now filling with gravel at twice the natural rate, an engineer says.

Hari Hari floods: Council to add rain monitoring for South Westland river
The West Coast Regional Council intends to add automatic rain monitoring equipment on the Wanganui River near Hari Hari after a series of damaging floods.

Wanganui River in-flood flows onto farms after council 'failed' to heed warning
An in-flood Wanganui River was running through farms near Hari Hari on Thursday, just two days after West Coast Regional Council received a strong warning from locals at a stormy on-site meeting.

Karamea whale fossil investigation: West Coast Regional Council ponders next step
The inquiry into the removal of a whale fossil from where it lay at the mouth of the Little Wanganui River for 23 million years until someone hacked it out with a rock saw at Labour weekend has stepped up a notch.

Coastguard, public help in rescue after Wanganui River capsize
Four people, including a child, were dumped into the Whanganui River when a boat overturned.The 5m aluminium boat capsized near Q-West Boat Builders in Gilberd St on Sunday afternoon. "They were trying a tight turn and it just...