West Coast mining disaster

It's thought new health and safety guidelines for directors will help avoid tragedies like Pike River.

It’s time for directors to step up and play a much more active role in leading health and safety in their companies, the Business Leaders’ Health and Safety Forum says, following the release of new safety guidelines for directors.

Labour Minister, Simon Bridges officially launched a health and safety guideline for directors titled ‘Good Governance Practices Guideline for Managing Health and Safety Risks’ at a function in Wellington this evening.

Company directors are being given strict health and safety guidelines following the Pike River Mine disaster.

The government has released new workplace safety guidelines for directors, following recommendations by the Pike River Royal Commission.

Mystery surrounding Verve Energy's troubled $250 million bid to resurrect the Muja coal-fired power station in Collie has deepened, with senior executives from its joint venture partner resigning en masse.

The Jersey breed was one of the foundation stones of the New Zealand dairy industry; not so today with the number and popularity of these brown cows diminishing initially in favour of the larger-framed Friesians but more latterly for crossbreds.

This year’s Budget has once again confirmed that National’s commitment to improving New Zealand’s awful workplace death and injury toll is hollow, says Darien Fenton, Labour’s Health and Safety spokesperson.

Attorney-General Christopher Finlayson announced today the appointments of 26 Queen’s Counsel.

Prices received by New Zealand producers, as measured by the output producers price index (PPI), rose 0.

Minerals industry representative group, Straterra, and the minerals sector health and safety body, MINEX, are pleased to announce a positive rationalisation in the mineral sector to better deliver health and safety outcomes.

Arch Hill are very pleased to announce a new single from Ghost Wave.

The $12 million redevelopment of Critical Care at Waikato DHB is now officially complete with the ribbon to Waikato Hospital’s new Intensive Care Unit (ICU) cut on Friday (10 May).

Food prices rose 0.2 percent in April 2013, but were down 0.1 percent on a year earlier, Statistics New Zealand said today.

THE man charged with stopping Joseph Parker in Hollywood next week freely admits he’s a "special kind of stupid".

The union for wood and forestry workers is backing calls for an inquiry into forestry safety.

In a terrifying hour-long descent down the side of an erupting volcano spewing deadly rocks and ash, Ewen Marshall had to confront reality - had he and his girlfriend been any closer to the peak, they could have died.

A man's been arrested in Tauranga in connection with an explosion and fire, at a beachside address in Mount Maunganui late last month.