Listen out for the sound of waves crashing on the shoreline and birdsong in the trees - not the ringtone of your company phone.

The family of Ben Rockhouse, who died in the Pike mine, have praised the 'selflessness and generosity' of the people of NZ.

The Coronial Inquest into the deaths of 29 men in the Pike River Coal mine will be held early next year, the chief coroner Judge MacLean says.

On Friday the 19th November I discovered my brother Conrad Adams was one of the 29 men who were inside the Pike River mine.

The Government is to allow private insurers to compete with the Accident Compensation Corporation.

Pike River Mine was evacuated this morning when gas levels rose sharply...

Bernie Monk knew his son was dead as soon as the Pike River Coal mine exploded on November 19. But there are others who are still clinging to hope that their loved ones are buried alive in the remote South Island mine.

Silver Ferns Farms has hit back at complaints that workers at its Te Aroha plant had their pay deducted for observing a two-minute silence to remember the Pike River miners.

NZ women still struggle to gain leadership roles and suffer from high levels of domestic violence, a report says.

Peter Dunne has defended the timing of the announcement of eight job losses at the IRD in Greymouth.

Staff at a North Island freezing works had their pay cut for the official two-minute silence to remember the 29 miners killed in the Pike River mine.

Hours after announcing his resignation from the 95bFM Breakfast Show, Matt Heath has been confirmed as the new Drive show host on Radio Hauraki.

Out-of-work Pike River miners will start finding out today if they have jobs, and if not, how much they will be paid out.

Grey District Mayor Tony Kokshoorn is calling for Pike River to be made into an opencast coal mine, amid efforts to keep the 114 skilled miners made redundant today on the West Coast.

Herald deputy business editor Grant Bradley, who has visited the Pike River mine and covered the company for the Business Herald, on why today's receivership move by Pike River was inevitable.

Managers say too many get-togethers are just a waste of time.

Thirty staff at Carter Holt Harvey Woodproducts Kawerau Sawmill are losing their jobs.

These days you have to be hyped-up and blissed out simultaneously ... but slow down and think.

The fire which has been raging for days at the Pike River Coal mine is definitely out, say Australians brought in to operate the GAG jet unit which has been pumping carbon dioxide into the mine.

Pike River Coal will have to reduce its workforce when it is ready to re-establish operations, but CEO Peter Whittall says reports of possible receivership were "extremely premature".

Gloomy building and manufacturing stats out this morning have prompted economists to raise the risk of negative GDP.