Nick Smith

New housing activity in Auckland has exceeded the government's first year targets, but most of the pick up has occurred outside the scope of their plan to tackle the crisis. Audio

Listening to that was the Building and Housing Minister Nick Smith. Audio

The Government is predicting construction to boom to unprecedented levels by 2017. Audio

The Government's policy to solve Auckland's housing shortage and curb rising prices is delivering windfall profits for owners of land earmarked for fast-track housing. Audio

The newly appointed Building and Housing, and Environment Minister, Nick Smith is promising a rewrite of the Resource Management Act to explicitly make more affordable housing one of its objectives. Audio

Multi-storey buildings will only be allowed to be designed by chartered engineers under tougher new rules has just announced. Audio

The neighbour of the 4-year-old boy mauled by the family dog says the animal had attacked him less than a week before. Audio

The Minister of Conservation, Nick Smith has been accused of telling Fish and Game to stop advocating for better water quality in lakes and rivers, or else. Audio

A man whose wife was killed in the CTV collapse says the Government should have stepped in when Alan Reay quit the professional body to prevent David Harding doing the same thing. Audio

Listening to that - the Minister of Conservation, Nick Smith. Audio

The International Whaling Commission says the government must take immediate steps to protect the endangered Maui's Dolphin. Audio

In this week's Insight Graeme Acton travels to the heart of the South Island High Country, where farmers and environmentalists are locked in a battle pitting farming intensification against those who… Audio

Listening to that interview is Housing Minister Nick Smith. Audio

Fiordland's controversial 240 million dollar monorail has been scrapped by the Conservation Minister. Audio

More now on the the Institution of Professional Engineers confirming it is dropping its investigation of Alan Reay who designed the collapsed CTV building. Audio

The Conservation Minister is not ruling out a special provision to let West Coasters make money out of the thousands of native trees blown over in April's huge storm. Audio

Alison Hossain explores whether NZ's marine reserves are world leading protection or tokenism. Audio

Despite yesterday's granting of resource consent, it could be several weeks before a decision is made whether to proceed with the contentious Ruataniwha dam project in Hawke's Bay. Audio

New social housing reforms come into effect today. Audio

A disease which has killed thousands of kauri trees over ten years has spread to the Coromandel, where part of the Whangapoua forest has been closed to try to contain it. Audio