Six bodies were recovered by the New Zealand military on Friday following a volcanic eruption that killed at least eight people and left toxic waste behind. The eruption, which occurred Monday on ...

Police said in a statement that a New Zealand Defense Force ship will approach the island at first light “to further assess the environment,” on Tuesday and Police Disaster Identification were ...

The World Socialist Web Site recently spoke with Ben Joynson, whose father William died in the Pike River coal mine disaster. Twenty-nine workers were trapped underground by an explosion on ...

The captain and second officer of a container ship that ran aground last year resulting in New Zealand’s worst maritime environmental disaster, pleaded guilty Wednesday to a range of charges. At ...

WELLINGTON (AFP) – The families of 29 miners killed in a New Zealand pit explosion said Thursday they were "gutted" by a police decision not to lay manslaughter charges over the 2010 disaster.

with participants from New Zealand, Australia, the UK and India. The book addresses the causes of the 2010 Pike River coal mine disaster, which killed 29 workers. It also deals with the ongoing ...

Christopher Whitehead spoke at the New Zealand Insurance Law Association Conference in 2022. From 2005 to 2015 he practised as legal counsel in the insurance industry, first to a French ...

0800: One of the missing Britons is understood to be Pete Rodger, 40, from Perthshire, Scotland, who emigrated to New Zealand two years ago to be closer to his mother and sister who live there.

TE901 crashed head-on into the gentle slopes of Mount Erebus It remains New Zealand's worst peacetime disaster. On 28 November 1979, a sightseeing aircraft carrying 257 people crashed head-on into ...

Twenty-nine miners remain trapped in a remote New Zealand coal mine, a day after an explosion ripped through the colliery. Mining disasters account for an estimated 12,000 deaths each year ...

An initial disaster, flash flooding in Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, hit on Jan. 27. Then on Feb. 12 to 15 a cyclone hit the North Island, which includes Auckland. Sign up here.