Former Pike River Coal managers have hired top defence lawyers to protect them against...

State-owned Solid Energy says it has lost at least $30m after operations at its underground Spring Creek mine were suspended five months ago due to safety concerns.

Tony Kokshoorn says authorities involved in the Pike River mine disaster have failed to communicate "from day one".

Police last night told families of the Pike River mine victims that there was a possibility rescuers had identified a body in the mine. There was also evidence that rescue boxes in the mine had been opened.

A third of the remaining employees at Pike River Mine on the West Coast are set to lose their jobs.

Prince William has met families of the victims of the Pike River Coal mine disaster in Greymouth tonight.

The inaction of Pike River mine receivers to venture into the mine has victims' families fearing the worst, says the father of one of the lost miners

State owned Solid Energy has confirmed it wants to buy the Pike River mine, but getting it back into production would be a big job.

Families of the dead men still at Pike River want the recovery of their loved ones' bodies to be a condition of a proposed sale of the mine.

The Christchurch earthquake has delayed the preliminary hearing of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into last year's Pike River Coal mine disaster, which claimed the lives of 29 men.