Stories by Eric Frykberg

The cause of a dramatic helicopter accident, which wounded six Chinese tourists and left a pilot with a severe brain injury, cannot be determined, a report has concluded.

A dramatic incident in which 13 people had to jump from a plane before it crashed has been blamed on an unnoticed engine fault. Video

The aircraft look likely to be fitted with smaller versions of an airliner's black box in a boost for aviation safety.

New Zealanders are being told they will have to pay more money to compensate for environmental damage, though the timing is yet to be decided.

About 50 pilots and other aviation professionals have gone through a programme to steer them away from alcohol addiction in the past seven years.

A top executive and the mother of a New Zealand crash victim have publicly clashed over the helicopters' safety. Audio

The controversial death of a New Zealander in Japan has brought back painful memories of a similar case in Samoa - where a five-year battle for justice has yielded no results.

Icy conditions have caused electricity prices to increase eightfold, with one Wellington resident swapping the heater for hot water bottles to avoid paying a hefty bill.

A Labour Party plan to help people pay their winter power bills has some merit, but wider issues around power affordability remain, electricity retailers say.

Insurers and panel beaters are blaming each other for delaying how long it takes to repair a dinged car.

A US family being forced to leave the country will leave behind valuable investments, their business partner says.

Renters in the city will need to save nearly twice as much as home owners to have an active life when they retire, new figures show. Audio

Volvo Cars has announced all new car models will be electric or hybrid cars from 2019.

Couples in urban centres wanting an event-filled retirement will need to have saved $486,023 by the time they stop working, according to a new study.

A woman whose company was landed with a huge electricity bill after months of under-charging has won a 50 percent reduction in her debt.

A government-ordered inquiry into New Zealand's retail fuel market has found petrol prices "might not be reasonable". Video

New Zealand has doubled the amount of fossil fuel it uses to make electricity during the past week, new figures show.

A man jailed for cruelty to bobby calves has had his two and a half year prison term reduced by the Court of Appeal to 18 months.

Wellington City Council has been exonerated of wrongdoing after it paid to get Singapore Airlines to run a service between Wellington and Singapore via Canberra.

The government believes far too much heat in industrial premises disappears up chimneys and is completely wasted.

The first shipment of phosphate rock from North West Africa since a political row disrupted the trade arrives in Tauranga on Sunday.

Despite what people think, inequality in New Zealand has barely changed since the early 1990s and is less of a problem than poverty itself, NZIER researchers say.

A trio of foreign think tanks are warning that natural gas offers a false hope in the fight against climate change.

New analysis shows the cyclones that ravaged parts of the upper North Island in April proved a boon for parts of the electricity industry.

Lines company Unison has won a legal battle to protect extra fees it imposed on electricity customers with solar panels in their homes.