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

Miners facing the axe at Solid Energy's Spring Creek and Huntly East operations say a march on Parliament tomorrow is about more than saving their jobs.

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.

Could seabed mining boost our economy, or are we out of our depth?

As petrol prices hike to an all-time high, one town's motorists are filling up on the cheapest gas in the country.

Newly-listed online trading platform Trade Me said its first annual net profit as a listed public company came in at $75.6 million

Prime Minister John Key needs to embrace his inner trader for the sake of the country, says Bernard Hickey.