COMMENT: It's little wonder that we weren't popping the champagne corks.

Jim Adams died five days before the 13th anniversary of his eldest son's mining death.

NZH Local Focus: Karangahake Gorge mine to reopen for testing.

Michael Wright warned his "secret daughter" to prepare for a fight. She's still fighting.

COMMENT: Many rescue workers have been killed trying to recover victims.

Fitting town for Coaltown Blues performance. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Forest & Bird suspects the Government plans to open access to coal.

Mining in the Denniston Plateau is being discussed, says Minister Simon Bridges.

Investors wonder: Is oil the water of the coming Space Age?

Legal action by Forest & Bird has prompted a U-turn over the proposed Te Kuha coal mine.

She's the fourth richest woman in Australia, worth A$1.8b, yet little is known about her

More than 5000km2 in Hawke's Bay is on the table for oil and gas exploration.

Chatham Rock Phosphate argued in the High Court that EPA charges were unreasonable.

COMMENT: The Shareholders' Association is on the warpath.

Energy Minister Judith Collins expects oil and gas exploration activity will return.

KiwiSaver is a fantastic long-term superannuation scheme but it has one major drawback: limited domestic investment opportunities.

A sinkhole in New Lynn could be bigger than it looks. So what causes them? We asked an expert.

From vulnerable blue cod to crying mokopuna - there were a variety of submissions to seabed mining hearings in New Plymouth on Tuesday. It

Greenpeace and KASM give evidence about the potential impacts on marine mammals at the EPA seabed mining hearing in Wellington. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

COMMENT: Dame Fiona Kidman's submission to the select committee on Pike River was study in empathy, writes Audrey Young.

COMMENT: Every time Bernie Monk and his Pike River people come pressing politicians for the mine to be re-entered I wonder why.

Trans-Tasman Resources gave evidence today at the hearing which will determine whether or not they will get marine consents to mine iron ore off the coast of South Taranaki. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Fisheries groups have teamed up to oppose Trans Tasman Resources' second bid to mine iron sands from the ocean floor in New Zealand's Exclusive Economic Zone.

Trans-Tasman Resources is proposing to mine 50 million tonnes of iron ore per year off the coast of Patea in south Taranaki. Made with funding from NZ On AIr.

Skellerup Holdings' first-half profit fell 7.5 per cent due to weaker sales to the mining sector in Australia and higher finance costs for a new factory in Christchurch.

Pike River families say a commitment to leave the coal mine unsealed and inspect it with drone technology falls short of their requests, but is still "very positive".

Pike River families are meeting with Prime Minister Bill English for the first time this afternoon.

Trans Tasman Resource will try again in hearings starting this week to get permission to mine iron sands from the ocean floor in New Zealand's Exclusive Economic Zone.

The daily picket by mine families and supporters has resulted in West Coast contractors refusing to do the sealing work.

Twenty-nine figures stood in silence on the Pike River Mine access road this morning - each decked out in overalls, work boots, miner's helmets and the name tags of the 29 men who died in the 2010 mine disaster.