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.

Why do so many New Zealand communities lie in flood zones? An expert explains.

National's reform of the Resource Management Act is finally complete.

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.

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.

COMMENT: David Seymour's greatest success is that he is not reviled, writes Audrey Young.

Anti-GM campaigners have launched a video on social media urging the Māori party to condemn Government's proposed changes to the Resource Management Act, which would remove their right to remain GM Free. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

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

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.

The RMA Knights who say no have been a shadowy tribe until now and it's been hard to pin much damage to the economy on them, writes Bernard Hickey.

The strength of Nick Smith's language in his savaging of the RMA prompted immediate concern in the environmental lobby he was trying to manufacture a crisis where there wasn't one.

What took hold of Nick Smith when he claimed the Resource Management Act added $30 billion to housing costs and stopped 40,000 new houses in the past decade?