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.

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?

Local Government NZ welcomes proposed changes to the RMA but NZ First leader Winston Peters says it will do nothing for house prices in Auckland.

Got a problem? Then blame it on the Resource Management Act, writes John Armstrong. "Nick Smith is using the RMA as a smokescreen. The Auckland housing crisis is really a crisis of insatiable demand."

The Government has spelled out its masterplan for reversing skyrocketing house prices across the country - but will the 10-point plan work?

Government has outlined its plans to dramatically reform the Resource Management Act in an effort to combat the skyrocketing price of housing in NZ.

Property developers say the failure to quickly resolve Auckland's housing crisis is not their fault - lack of infrastructure is one of the biggest impediments to more building.

Long-promised law changes designed to make housing in New Zealand more affordable will be unveiled today as the Government makes its second attempt at reforming the Resource Management Act.