A leading business group has joined environmentalists in calling on the Government to ease back on changes to the Resource Management Act.

The RMA exists to help work out the right conditions, as well as manage effects, which under O'Reilly's approach would not occur, writes Claire Browning.

In the coming weeks, the Government will be making its decision on the future of the Resource Management Act.

Auckland Council's draft Unitary Plan is under attack as people engage with its implications for their backyards and neighbourhoods, writes Joel Cayford. The question confronting city planners and councillors should be how to fix the plan,

"Who wins when the Auckland Council and the Government do not agree on the approach to affordable housing?" asks Mai Chen. "Or when Auckland's unitary plan should take effect?"

Editorial: Two recent events ought to have injected some urgency into the quest for cleaner, fairer and better use of New Zealand's most valuable resource, water.

A few weeks ago, an injured kaka was rescued from a Queen St gutter and is now in a new home at the Auckland Zoo.

A record Resource Management Act fine has been handed out to an Auckland landscaping company for dumping contaminated fill,

Port of Tauranga is signalling another record profit and is frustrated at a new Maori court challenge.

The Maori King and the Prime Minister drew the battle lines, with the former saying "Maori'' and the latter saying "No One''. Today, two legal academics explore the deep currents that lie beneath each claim.

Major political parties' lack of policies to redress our love affair with housing has bred frustration in economic circles.