Stories by Eric Frykberg

The Minister of Energy and Resources Minister says she hopes for more oil and gas exploration this year.

Freight trains will be running from the West Coast to Christchurch from today and the TranzAlpine resumes on Wednesday after a six-week closure.

Far too many air accidents are caused by polluted fuel, insufficient fuel, or blocked fuel lines starving aircraft engines of gas, the Civil Aviation Authority says.

The petroleum industry has launched a campaign, telling people their products are essential to their everyday lives.

The high prices for electricity transmission could contribute to the closure of the steel industry in New Zealand, NZ Steel says.

The world is about to hit a point where it is burning the equivalent of 4680 Olympic-sized swimming pools of oil each day.

The Electricity Authority is being accused of using flawed data in its reforms for paying for the $918 million national grid costs.

The impact of the Kaikōura earthquake has brought higher profits to the Lyttelton's port.

New Zealand's electricity supply for the coming winter should be safe.

New Zealand ship owners say they pay too much for greenhouse gas emissions when their rivals do not pay anything.

Wellington City Council is defending its tight time frame for getting urgent seismic tests done on 80 buildings in the city.

Today is D-day for the owners of 80 buildings in Wellington which were forced to undergo emergency earthquake testing in the wake of the 14 November earthquake.

Zespri will allocate an additional 1800 hectares of land for its European SunGold brand, two-thirds of which will be in Italy.

New analysis shows wholesale electricity prices were more stable last year than at any time on record.

The Privacy Commissioner wants to strengthen protection of personal information and raise fines for breaches to a maximum of $1 million.

A Christchurch barrister says the case of a mother jailed for murdering her severely disabled daughter is the most tragic he has ever dealt with.

A British drug company has been fined $1 million for claims its painkiller products targeted particular parts of the body.

Containers held on Wellington's port since the November earthquake will begin moving again after a deal to bring in container ships with their own cranes.

Punitive tariffs by the United States on Mexico could rebound on a major New Zealand company, according to its managers in Auckland.

A highly-critical report says Wellington's mental health services need to change after five patients were involved in attacks - four of them fatal - in 15 months.

Part of St Gerard's monastery could be caught up in a government crackdown on unsafe buildings.

New Zealand is experiencing more low-level crashes than ever and the cost of repairing the dents is rising exponentially.

A joint NZ-German mission has been investigating underwater volcanoes stretching in an arc from the Bay of Plenty to Tonga.

A New Zealand judge has let a Malaysian businessman and his family continue their fight to stop assets worth millions being seized by the US.

A team from Otago University is researching people's legal rights in relation to robots and other forms of artificial intelligence.