More than $500,000 of damage done to heavy machinery at West Cost mining site
Three big trucks, a fuel tanker, a loader and two or three diggers were smashed.
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COMMENT: BHP Billiton is drawing a powerful line in sand for industry.
Hosking: Green minister's muddy thinking risks wrecking economy
COMMENT: This is a Government obsessed with hating fossil fuels.
Chris Baker: Let's talk about coal and climate change
COMMENT: An empty seat at the table doesn't help the climate change debate.
Comment: Green MP's decision a new low in politics of protest
COMMENT: Eugenie Sage decision is a "gross abuse" of power.
Pike River: What happens next?
Dinghy Pattinson has broken down how the re-entry will play out.
'Just incredible': First images inside the Pike River Mine
No one has been back into the mine since November 2010 since the explosion.
Paul Little: Turning our taonga into pet food
COMMENT: The scandal over Foulden Maar has reached critical mass.
Audrey Young: Ardern's problems are a matter of constraint
COMMENT: From the success of Paris, Ardern gets back to some problematic ministers.
Men lured to mines, killed by gang who claimed compo on their behalf
Gang members clubbed the men with an axe and stones as well as setting off explosions.
Barry Soper: Mines are volatile places
COMMENT: Human beings should never have seen the inside of that mine.
Pike River: Could animals nibbling through tubes have caused delay?
Damage by animals was "possible" but other causes were more "plausible".
'Like another kick in the guts': Frustration, disappointment at Pike River delay
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Pike River: Faces of the 29 victims
They were fathers, sons, & husbands. These are the faces of the Pike River 29.
Pike River re-entry: Everything you need to know
Eight years after the explosions that killed 29 men, miners try and recover the bodies
Politics off the Pike River table as National backs re-entry
Pike families had felt let down by the previous Govt which said re-entry was too dangerous
Letters: Councillors absent again
It was a nice change to have more than one or two of us in the public gallery.
Doctor and son swim 20km to oppose seabed mining
Athol Steward and son Lloyd swim Whanganui coast to protest seabed mining.
Kindergarten kids join strike for climate
Waihi people are divided over kindergarten kids joining a global strike for climate.
Pike River: Miners ready to recover mates
In just a few weeks, experts will chip off the concrete seal to the mine's entrance.
Pike River families shocked by new evidence in photo
Photo of electrical cabinet that may have sparked explosion has been given to police.
$19 billion wipe-out after dam collapse
Eight employees of Brazilian mining company have also been arrested over collapse.
Mining company applies for new exploration permit
New minerals permit applied for - iwi wanted council to back anti-mining stance.
Former coal pit planned as mine host for water sports
Former coal mine to be restored back to lake. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Brazil dam collapse: 9 dead, hundreds feared buried in mud
Finding many more survivors was looking increasingly unlikely.
'Make Australia great' billionaire's NZ office is almost empty
The new office isn't exactly flash.
'Make Australia Great' billionaire shifts control of business empire to NZ
The Aussie billionaire registered the Kiwi company late last year.
Chris Baker: Govt's head in (iron) sand over mining ban
COMMENT: Like it or not, we can't function without mining.
Outrage over government spying on protest groups
Activist groups are outraged the government used private investigators to spy on them
Thompson & Clark asked to 'monitor' Ngāti Ruanui
Ngāti Ruanui seeks more information about "spying" and may make an official complaint
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Dallas Adams lost his dad and brother in workplace accidents - now he works to save others