David Williams is Newsroom's environment editor, South Island correspondent and investigative writer.
An Australian billionaire is embracing life in New Zealand, spending millions of
dollars buying up two parcels of prime Queenstown land and negotiating to buy into the
lease of a huge Lake Wakatipu farm station.
An academic is urging the government to draft new laws to protect NZ from “China’s
covert, corrupting and coercive political influence”.
Diehard rulebreakers are the short-term target of Queenstown council’s crackdown on
visitor accommodation
New Zealand might be close to 'peak cow,' the new Agriculture Minister says.
An historic South Island farm station near NZ’s highest mountain has been sold –
and is staying in Kiwi hands.
The first shots have been fired in what might be a long war between Queenstown’s
council and online house-sharing giant Airbnb.
A painstaking Christchurch heritage restoration has won a prestigious UNESCO award.
The explosion of Airbnb in Queenstown has taken long-term rentals out of the
market, pushing up rents in an already hot market. But is banning it the answer?
After trading blows with former minister Gerry Brownlee, Megan Woods is now the one
in the hot seat.
The death toll at Christchurch's CTV building collapse tilts the balance in favour
of prosecution, a legal academic says.
Massive growth and poor planning has left Queenstown’s council facing a $1
billion-plus infrastructure bill over the next 10 years.
Bernie Monk is firm on what will happen at Pike River, and believes the re-entry
might be led by a former chief mines inspector.
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