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 …

SkyCity Entertainment Group shares rose to the highest level in 5 ½ years after the Auckland-based casino and hotel company inked a deal to build a $402 million convention centre in exchange for increased gambling concessions. SkyCity shares rose 3.4 percent to $4.55, the highest since November 2007, after the deal was announced in Auckland by Economic Development Minister Steven …