On March 23 New Zealand’s Labour Party-led government announced there would be no more funding to continue the underground investigation into the causes of the Pike River Coal (PRC) mine disaster.

The Pike River Recovery Agency (PRRA) in New Zealand is continuing work on sealing the underground Pike River coal mine, where 29 workers lost their lives in a series of explosions in November 2010.

Pike River citizens who lost love ones in the 2010 disaster stage protests, asking the government to green light projects to reclaim the deceased. There is no doubt in Daniel Rockhouse's mind that ...

But beyond the defendants, this case has once again brought New Zealand's track record of workplace accidents into sharp focus because before White Island, there was the Pike River Mine disaster.

A 2012 report by a New Zealand Royal Commission found that the Pike River Coal company had ignored 21 warnings that methane gas levels were dangerously high in the mine seven weeks before the ...

"On behalf of NZ Police, I would like to extend my sincere ... Sonya Rockhouse, who lost her son Ben in the Pike River mine explosion, believes the project has helped her find closure.

Twenty-nine workers in New Zealand are missing after a powerful blast tore through a coal mine. Repeated attempts to contact the 16 employees and 13 contract miners at the Pike River mine have ...

He was one of 29 men, including two Australians, killed in the New Zealand mine on November 19, 2010. Anna Osbourne's husband body has not been recovered from Pike River Mine.(ABC News ...

The Australian reports a mining safety specialist who quit New Zealand’s fatal Pike River coal mine over concerns it was too dangerous will present crucial expert testimony to the royal ...

New Zealand’s Pike River mine tragedy that killed 29 men almost two years ago was “preventable” and caused by poor company management and ineffective regulation, according to a report into ...

New Zealand’s government will pay for a plan to re-enter the Pike River coal mine, where an explosion almost three years ago killed 29 workers in the nation’s worst mining accident in 96 years.

Three-time Emmy nominee Melanie Lynskey has been confirmed as starring in “Pike River,” the upcoming dramatic thriller set and shot in New Zealand and ... the Pike River Mine tragedy in ...