The Maori Council does not speak for Maori affected by the partial sale of Mighty River Power, according to Finance Minister Bill English.

Finance Minister Bill English welcomes opportunity to defend sale of state-owned enterprise in court.

Charlie's juice company has announced a new chief executive to step into the shoes of outgoing co-founder Stefan Lepionka.

A lobby group a believes Kiwis support mineral exploration and mining as an avenue towards economic prosperity, but is concerned public awareness needs a boost.

Shell says the earliest it will consider drilling in the frontier deep water Great South Basin will be the summer of 2014-15.

Miners from the West Coast and Huntly who are set to lose their jobs, will converge on parliament today as the company looks abroad for investors.

Solid Energy has proposed to slash 230 jobs at its Spring Creek mine as it can't afford to keep the operation running.

Haier has offered to buy the 80 per cent of Fisher & Paykel Appliances it doesn't already own for $1.20 a share, valuing the New Zealand company at about $869 million.

Community services buckle under the strain of the mining industry's fly-in, fly-out 'parasites', say observers.

West Coast miners will march through Greymouth today in a fight to keep the Spring Creek mine open. Organisers hope 500 people will join the march, in what could be the biggest protest on the West Coast since the end of native logging.