Tasman

A Tasman District Council event created a 10km-long traffic snarl-up on State Highway 60 on Saturday morning.

After being encouraged to drain wetlands on their farm in the 80s a Golden Bay couple are already seeing the benefits of transforming the land back to its natural state.

There are plans to install new membrane filters in Motueka's Wastewater Treatment Plant by the end of next month, with analysis underway on the existing filters to determine the cause of the problem.

Ngāti Rārua is calling on the Tasman District Council to accelerate essential repairs to the Motueka Wastewater treatment plant, almost a month after problems were detected.

Lipscombe Auction House has been accused of selling fakes, drawing the ire of authenticators. However, a tribunal has ruled it cannot stop the auction house selling fakes.

The two fringe party leaders appear to be fighting a turf war over the West Coast-Tasman electorate.

A broken pipe that leaked raw sewage onto a Golden Bay estuary went undetected and unreported for six weeks.

A papakāinga development at Te Āwhina Marae in Motueka is set to welcome whānau tenants into the first of its 20 homes.

It could be six weeks before Motueka's wastewater plant is functioning properly again.

Problems have been detected with the filtration membranes at Motueka's Wastewater plant, and warnings issued against collecting shellfish or whitebait.

The reservoir of the Waimea Community Dam has been tested through winter and is now ready to be filled.

The licensing inspector, Te Whatu Ora, police and 88 individuals objected to the application by Nelson Holdings Limited to open a Super Liquor store near a school.

One would think allowing the control of feral cats would be a simple move, but for the Nelson-Tasman region, it has not been easy.

A teen killed in a Christchurch crash has been named, and emergency services have been responding to crashes in Ohakune, Abel Tasman National Park and Lake Ohia in Northland.

Concerns around the installation of Motueka cycleways have resulted in conspiracy theories consuming much of the community board's public forum time.

Public transport usage across Nelson and Tasman has increased by more than 40 percent since the new electric bus service began a week ago.

A fleet of bright blue electric buses have hit the road in Nelson and Tasman - the launch of a new service designed to improve residents' access to public transport.

A National party candidate says the growing National Gang List is evidence of Labour's 'soft-on-crime approach', but police say it's not that straightforward.

Library and council workers across the top of the South Island are rallying to raise their concerns about low wages, poor working conditions and high turnover.