Sandwiched by the Tasman Sea and the serrated peaks of the Southern Alps, bountiful Hokitika is a pitch-perfect base camp for summer road-tripping in Westland. You’d be hard pressed to find a ...

The West Coast Regional Council is driving forward its goal of long-term coastal protection for West Coast communities with the advancement of a consent application for the Hokitika Seawall Extension ...

Hokitika on the West Coast lays claim to the "word's greatest sock store", and possibly the world's only museum of sock knitting machines. Its rainbow letters welcome you and declare that you are ...

Eleanor Catton has helped bring the history of Hokitika into the spotlight with her novel, The Luminaries. Photo / Sarah Ivey Visitors to Hokitika are starting to look for something tangible from the ...

Local media reported there was only one copy of ‘The Luminaries’ left in Hokitika on the west coast of New Zealand’s South Island yesterday morning. Not surprisingly, perhaps: the day before, the ...

Aboat's outboard motor sits on the post at Max Dowell's gate. It is his mailbox. It points to the Hokitika octogenarian's sense of humour and pride as an engineer. Dowell was raised at Kokatahi, near ...

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