The Herald's energy reporter, who has visited Pike River, reflects on the project's delays, and now disaster.

Cabinet ministers were last night travelling to the Pike River Mine, as the Government offered assistance in the rescue of the trapped miners.

Methane gas has long been identified as a potential problem for the Pike River Coal mine, as rescuers scramble to find up to 27 missing miners.

Send your messages of support to the families and friends of the trapped West Coast miners.

Four car parking spaces have been removed from the scene of a fatal crash involving a cyclist in Auckland earlier this week.

Steven Joyce is considering "regulatory changes" after crashes left five cyclists dead and two critically injured this week.

A 124-year-old heritage building in downtown Auckland was torn down this morning after large cracks were found in its walls.

The family of a schoolgirl fighting for her life after falling under a truck has told the distraught driver not to 'beat himself up'.

The cyclist killed on Auckland's Tamaki Dr was a nurse on a working holiday remembered by her workmates as 'popular and fun-loving'.

A female cyclist who died this morning after being hit by a car in the Waikato was a "friend to hundreds", her stunned family said today.

An inquiry has laid blame on both anti-whaling vessel Ady Gil and a Japanese whaling ship for their Southern Ocean crash earlier this year.

Cyclists are pleading for motorists to show them respect after seeing five of their number die in five days after crashes.

A woman cyclist who died from her injuries today was the fifth cyclist to have died in five days after crashes on NZ roads.

A female cyclist was hit and killed by a truck last night on Auckland's most popular and dangerous waterfront route.

The cyclist killed on Tamaki Drive this evening fell under a truck when trying to avoid a parked car's opening door, say police.