The New Zealand dollar may decline this week as a resurgent US currency is buoyed by optimism growth is accelerating in the world’s largest economy. The kiwi dollar recently traded at 82.77 US cents, from 82.98 cents late Friday in New York, and earlier touched a seven-week low of 82.58 cents. The dollar may trade in a range of 81.50 …

Key environmental groups have signed up to a proposal which would allow both ecological restoration and intensive dairying to occur in the Mackenzie Country. The newly unveiled Mackenzie Agreement is the product of three years’ consensus-building led by Guy Salmon, a close adviser to Cabinet Minister Nick Smith and an architect of the collaborative process behind the Land and Water …

The Tiwai Point aluminium smelter is “losing millions of dollars every month” and can ill-afford to give shift workers a 50 percent increase in leave without increasing hours worked, the company says. The smelter owner, New Zealand Aluminium Smelters, says it will appeal an Employment Relations Authority decision that overturns its 20-year practice of applying a “lieu days benefit”, which …