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A manufacturer is planning to expand its operations in Nash County, and that could bring 40-80 new jobs to the region.

A proposal to build a house in Cromwell more than 13 times the size of an average dwelling has been turned down, despite it having support from a...

A proposal to build a house in Cromwell more than 13 times the size of an average dwelling has been turned down, despite it having support from a...

The state-owned energy company had fought for six years to build the 176-turbine Project Hayes wind farm. The company initially won resource consent, but lost it following an appeal to the Environment Court. Meridian chief executive Mark Binns told Radio New Zealand's Checkpoint programme on Thursday a High Court reprieve in 2011 put the company in the position of having to revisit the Environment Court to hear the case all over again. "That, coupled with the fact that we'd have to spend a significant amount more money and the fact that we already have some other alternatives that are more c...

Put simply, says Taylor, the RMA is at the heart of national strategy. Its job is to set the balance between our economic ambitions and environmental limits. That means whatever replaces it will affect everything. Guy Salmon, of Nelson’s “blue-green” think tank, Ecologic – a member of the RMA’s original independent panel 30 years ago – says it could be New Zealand’s true coming of age moment. supplied The Resource Management Act: After many patches and revisions, finally time to just replace it. The country might get around the table and figure out how to actually live withi...