Local tourism firms currently offer scenic flight tours of Whakaari Island and many other nearby attractions (including Mount Tarawera, Ruapehu, and the Coromandel Peninsula). The waters ...

The 2019 volcanic explosion on Whakaari/White Island, which killed 22 people touring the crater and severely injured 25, is one of New Zealand’s worst disasters. But an even more devastating ...

Feb. 28 (UPI) --New Zealand's High Court on Friday overturned the conviction against Whakaari Management Limited, the owner of the Whakaari/White Island volcano that erupted in 2019, killing dozens.

Nicknamed “Whakaari” by the Maori people ... Indonesia, a land of over 17,000 islands, is dotted with active volcanoes. Mount Bromo, located within Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park, is ...

Whakaari-White Island erupted in December 2019 resulting in the loss of 22 lives and many severe injuries. Further engagement with hapū is needed if a Whakaari memorial space is to be created in ...

The ruling absolves the company from paying millions of dollars in restitutions to the families of those bereaved in the 2019 explosion on Whakaari, also known as White Island, and two dozen ...

Whakaari Management Limited (WML) was found guilty in 2023 of failing to keep visitors safe and fined just over NZ$1m ($560,000; £445,000). They were also ordered to pay NZ$4.8m in reparation to ...

The Buttle brothers company’s conviction over the 2019 Whakaari eruption, which killed 22, was quashed. Justice Simon Moore ruled they didn’t manage or control the island, only owned the land.

A close examination of the Whakaari / White Island volcanic eruption of 2019 in which 22 lives were lost, the film viscerally recounts a day when ordinary people were called upon to do ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The owners of an island volcano in New Zealand where 22 tourists and local guides died in an eruption had their criminal conviction for failing to keep visitors safe ...

An image provided by visitor Michael Schade shows White Island (Whakaari) volcano, as it erupts, in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, 09 December 2019. Photo by Michael Schade/EPA-EFE ...