Nelson Region

A body has been found in the remains of a house fire in Nelson, police say.

Up to 900 new homes and 450 new sections could be on the way for Nelson after the government and local council extended the city's housing accord.

A real estate agent has been fined $10,000 for work labelled seriously negligent when he bought a client's house.

A Nelson resident says the city council is using a back-door way to build more houses that are unlikely to be affordable anyway.

A man who was at the centre of an Armed Offenders Squad callout in Richmond, near Nelson, has been found.

A Nelson-based World War II pilot who cheated death on wartime raids over Europe now feels cheated out of a government-subsidised plaque for a headstone.

Nelson College is devastated after a senior student was suspended and two others sanctioned following "serious acts of bullying", the school's headmaster says. Audio

First Person - After today's Fairfax and NZME merger rejection, Nelson Mail alumni Tracy Neal visits her old paper at a crucial time in its history. Video

A terminally ill man has been sent to prison for just under five years on a list of sexual violation and indecency charges.

The Nelson Marlborough DHB is set to begin its review in response to the case of a severely autistic 20-year-old murdered by her mother.

A Nelson couple have been sentenced after defrauding about $245,000 from the Ministry of Social Development over 15 years.

The widow of one of the two men killed by a US tourist's careless driving near Nelson says it was an accident and she forgives him. Video, Audio

A cluster of earthquakes has struck St Arnaud in the early hours of this morning including a strong magnitude-4.6 shake felt by hundreds.

Police have confirmed the human remains found in a submerged car in Nelson are those of missing teenager Leo Lipp-Neighbours.

A GNS scientist says monitoring of land movement since 2004 shows the Kaikōura earthquake lowered the land by 20 millimetres.

Police have apprehended two boys, aged 10 and 13, over a suspicious fire at a computer business in Richmond.

The owner of a Nelson charter boat is astonished a sunken car belonging to a missing man wasn't found sooner, given the nearby wharf is popular place for fishing.

A vehicle resembling that in which Nelson teenager Leo Lipp-Neighbours was last seen seven years ago has been hauled from Nelson Harbour.

A car found submerged in water near a Nelson wharf yesterday might be linked to the disappearance of a young man seven years ago.

Special housing areas that side-step public consultation are causing disquiet among some Nelson city councillors.