A Greymouth District Court judge said yesterday that two feuding neighbours should be put in a sack and tossed in the Grey River.

A top geologist was so concerned with the Pike River mine that she asked her husband, also a geologist, not to enter the mine in 2010. She said Pike River Coal did not have a proper understanding of the geology of its coal mine, and had...

Blast shouldn't have happened in a modern mine, says Solid Energy chief.

Work to stabilise the Pike River coal mine has been delayed a second time by dangerous gas readings.

Police say while they are "highly suspicious" a figure seen in footage taken from within the Pike River mine is a body, it is impossible to confirm without months of work.