Eugenie Sage

The volunteers who are racing to clean up the mess at Fox River before spring rains arrive say they wouldn't have to be there if the government had acted sooner.

They're calling on authorities to… Video, Audio

The Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage says local councils shouldn't expect her department will come to their rescue if they run into problems with old landfills.

She says while DOC is now running… Audio

West Coast councils are lobbying the government to exclude the region from its mining ban on conservation land.

They want to wait until a category known as stewardship land has been reviewed and… Audio

The ban on single-use plastic shopping bags begins on July 1.

The government says it is a step towards healthier oceans and giving nature a hand.

But the National Party claims a legal loophole makes… Video, Audio

The kākāpō health crisis is stable, with no further cases of aspergillosis diagnosed, and seven hand-reared chicks have been successfully released in the wild, in ep 21 of the Kākāpō Files. Audio

The government has stepped in to clean up the vast West Coast rubbish spill, after local authorities ran out of cash to finish the job. But what's being done to stop it happening elsewhere?  Audio

Work to clean up rubbish contamination in South Westland is being stopped because the Westland District Council says it can't afford to continue it. It's eight weeks since the Fox River landfill… Audio, Gallery

Tourism leaders have welcomed the government's plans to be more active in the country's biggest export industry, but say it mustn't interfere with business. Tourism Minister Kelvin Davis and… Audio

You may think that the opposition are the group in Parliament whose job is to ‘hold the government to account’. You’d be wrong. 

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A host of concerns about the tenure review process have been revealed in detailed advice to the Land Information Minister. Tenure review is a voluntary process that was designed to allow crown… Audio

In the years' first Taupatupatu Whānui the messages were an uncanny mirror of oral Questions just ended. Mostly. Audio

Parliamentary Members' Days can be filled with interest and suspense. But not usually. Sometimes MPs have to keep themselves entertained by littering speeches with rubbish trash puns. Audio

Farmers are pushing back against plans to make it harder for those farming leasehold high country land to change to the way they farm the land. Federated Farmers High Country spokesperson, Simon… Audio

Farmers on leasehold Crown land are unhappy about a plan aimed that could see them stopped from moving into more intensive farming . The government wants to make it harder for those farming leasehold… Audio

It's the hottest, busiest, smelliest time of year for recycling centres - and, one year after China stopped taking our plastics, some are still struggling to move thousands of tonnes of waste. Audio

Conservationists are calling on the Department of Conservation to ramp up its response to what's being called a mega mast, which could unleash a plague of predators on threatened native species. Audio

China refused to take any more waste plastic at the start of 2018, and in April we saw startling images of mountains of recycling with nowhere to go. This year will also be remembered as the year New… Audio