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Two New Zealand skiers are killed and another is injured during an avalanche on Mount Yotei in Hokkaido, Japan.
2024-03-11

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern makes a public apology to the family of Grace Millane, who was murdered in Auckland on 1 or 2 December 2018, saying that "your daughter should have been safe here".
2018-12-10

Terminally ill patients in New Zealand are now able to take medicinal cannabis.
2017-12-20

A state of emergency is declared in the New Zealand district of Whanganui due to flooding.
2013-10-15

The New Zealand Royal Commission on the Pike River Mine disaster hears that a collapse in the coal extraction area was the most likely cause of the fatal blast in the mine on November 19, 2010 that claimed 29 lives.
2012-02-8

A memorial service is held in Christchurch, New Zealand, for the victims of the 2011 Canterbury earthquake.
2011-03-18

Receivers of the Pike River Mine on the South Island of New Zealand lay off 114 workers following the closure of the mine after the Pike River Mine disaster.
2010-12-14

Thousands of New Zealanders gather at the Omoto racecourse to commemorate the victims of the Pike River Mine disaster.
2010-12-2

A third explosion within a week occurs at the Pike River Mine on the South Island of New Zealand, where 29 men are presumed dead.
2010-11-26

3 people are killed and 3 others are missing after a South Korean fishing boat sinks 400 miles from Dunedin on the South Island of New Zealand.
2010-08-18