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A fight is brewing over a council move requiring more than 30 property owners to move.

Two more subdivisions are proposed for Greerton and Papamoa involving 403 homes.

A public health group is backing a new Greenpeace call to halt dairying expansion.

NZ Pure Blue wants to take 6.9m litres of water a day from Blue Spring to send offshore.

Labour's new freshwater policy would make it tougher for farms to intensify operations.

Aramoho residents say Council did not give enough warning about weed spraying.

Consents given to firms to take our water opened taps on furious row.

Some coastal communities may have to be pulled back in the face of sea level rise.

The Maori Party is claiming a major victory against GE trials in New Zealand.

Nervous time for Hastings and Hawke's Bay producers as RMA changes debated last night.

RMA reforms will take NZ "down a racially divisive abyss", Winston Peters says.

Parliament's next environment watchdog will be a former National MP.

As Labour and the Greens sign a vow of Fiscal Prudence, PM Bill English wrestled Medusa.

Major reforms to the Resource Management Act are finally ready to progress.

A key piece of National policy is hanging in the balance.

Airline pilots want to delay a planning hearing regarding extension on Wellington Airport's runway.

The select committee deliberating on the largest bill currently before Parliament is due to report back tomorrow.

A legal settlement will stop vegetation being cleared without permission in Canterbury's picturesque Mackenzie Country.

Hawke's Bay Regional Council will consider marine reserves early next year, with a recent Environment Court decision giving regional

Judith Collins has laid out her policy agenda if she is elected Prime Minister.

The Govt is making an announcement on the long-stalled changes to the Resource Management Act this afternoon.

The Tangiteroria Tavern is now the pub with no beer after 90 years of serving locals and travellers between Whangarei and Dargaville. Owner

Former National Party leader Don Brash says a new anti-separatist campaign may end up donating to one of his old enemies, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters.

Market view statistics during the gastro outbreak showed about an $80,000 drop in retail and hospitality spend.

For better or worse, National's failure to raise importance of economic considerations clearly underscores the public's bottom line.

Homeowners will probably be able to build a fence, carport or more without the need for a resource consent under major reforms to planning laws.

Fonterra says it sets itself high environmental standards despite being fined $362,000 in two separate prosecutions for Resource Management Act breaches.

Chorus has called on the government to enact changes to the RMA to speed the fibre rollout.

Building height restrictions and NIMBY attitudes in inner Auckland are standing in the way of an response to Auckland's housing shortage, the Reserve Bank governor says.