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

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.

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?

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.

A suggestion by the Finance Minister councils are increasing poverty through poor planning rules that drive housing costs higher has been labelled 'simplistic'.

Property and construction bosses want the Government to reform the Resource Management Act, an extension of Special Housing Areas, the creation of more affordable housing in Auckland and Christchurch and perhaps the introduction of some form of capital ga

As with any law, improvements could be made. Forest & Bird, and other community groups, have no issue with providing for better planning processes, writes Claire Browning.

The Government has just set best-practice guidelines for fracking in various parts of the country.