A pair of US tourists had to be rescued by a police search and rescue team after becoming stranded on the banks of the Haast River yesterday afternoon. Wanaka police were alerted to the distressed ...

"As the old man would say, we're off like a dog shot in the arse," says Lindsay Kain in classic West-Coast-South-Island-New-Zealand-clipped-drawl. He hits the throttle and the jet boat glides upstream ...

Drivers who travel through Haast, South Westland, after 10 pm at night will face delays of up to an hour in the week starting 28 March. Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency is doing maintenance work on the ...

Stitching Central Otago to the wonders of South Westland, the Haast Pass Highway is what epic roadies are all about. The Haast region is the centrepiece of Te Wāhipounamu World Heritage area. As the ...

One of my favourite Kiwi road trips tends to be mistaken as an unsung feeder route, stitching the West Coast’s Glacier Country to the glittery allure of Wanaka and Queenstown. Rushing is the problem.

LOVED ONES LOST: Canadian couple Connor Hayes and Joanna Lam lost their lives in the Haast River gorge in September. . Photo: SUPPLIED A Canadian father is devastated to learn his son desperately ...

Canadian couple Joanna Lam, 24, and Connor Hayes, 25, died when their rental campervan crashed in the Haast River gorge in 2013. . Photo: Supplied / None A tragic and unlikely combination of events ...