Finding a site willing to host a memorial for the 257 victims of the Erebus plane crash has been "tricky" and "heartbreaking", the Ministry of Heritage and Culture's deputy secretary of Māori ...

SENDAI—Thirteen years after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami disaster, many survivors are struggling to pay back public loans designed to help low-income earners rebuild their lives.

It remains New Zealand's worst peacetime disaster. On 28 November 1979, a sightseeing aircraft carrying 257 people crashed head-on into the side of a volcano in Antarctica. The tragedy of flight ...