Wellington, Feb 17 NZPA - Fletcher Building shares rose 32c, or 4.2 percent, to $7.96 in afternoon trading after the country's largest building company reported a better-than-expected 10 percent drop in interim profit.

On Tuesday in Parliament John Key will make the most important speech of his political career.

The prime minister's address, a set-piece event at the beginning of each parliamentary year, will outline the National-led government's agenda for 2010 and define its economic recovery programme.

Wellington, Feb 3 NZPA - The first shipping containers converted into cells will be ready to house prisoners from April and Corrections Minister Judith Collins says it is possible the pilot will be expanded as pressure comes on the prison muster.

Wellington, Sept 17 NZPA - Biofuel entrepreneur LanzaTech says its pilot plant at the New Zealand Steel works has successfully used microbes to convert waste gas into high-octane ethanol.

Wellington, Sept 10 Reuters - The Government is relying on carbon-trading through its proposed emissions trading scheme (ETS) to help it meet a target of a 10 to 20 percent cut in carbon emissions on 1990 levels by 2020. * New Zealand emissions breakdown by sector as at 2007

Wellington, Aug 26 NZPA - The price Pike River Coal Ltd sells coal to shareholders at has been endorsed by outside consultants.

Wellington, Aug 13 NZPA - Steel and Tube Holdings Ltd today reported a 15.9 percent rise in annual profit in a year of two halves. Product was short and demand strong in the first half then demand and margins weakened in the second half .

Wellington, July 21 NZPA - Greenhouse gas emissions from the energy sector jumped 3.6 percent last year -- the first year in which New Zealand has to account for its emissions under the Kyoto protocol.

Wellington, July 21 NZPA #The steel to build the lines of 425 pylons that will march across Waikato farms in Transpower's electricity grid upgrade is being provided by a Saudi Arabian company, Zamil Steel.

Wellington, July 21 NZPA - West Coast coal miner Pike River Coal has settled the price for its premium hard coking coal at $US128 ($NZ198) per tonne for the year ended March 2010.