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Brown backs down over high-rises
Brown backs down over high-rises

Auckland Mayor Len Brown is backing down in the face of a citywide revolt against high-rise apartments and infill housing…

Mayor caught in retail row

Auckland Mayor Len Brown is refusing to help a community battling plans by hardware giant Bunnings to build a big box retail…

Sporty Auckland outruns Sydney

Auckland has overtaken Sydney as a host of premier events in Australasia and is now second only to Melbourne, an industry…

Port expansion, version 2

A little expansion or a step too far is the choice facing Aucklanders with the release of the latest plans to reclaim more…

Auckland Region

Auckland's first electric trains on track Auckland's first electric trains on track

Auckland's $500 million rail electrification project…

A day on the green A day on the green

Danielle Wright meets a group of teenage lawn bowlers…

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How water nourishes Auckland
How water nourishes Auckland

Auckland plans to spend $4.8 billion over the next 10 years on water projects as the city's population grows.

Auckland Council approves rate rise
Auckland Council approves rate rise

The Auckland Council has approved a 2.9 per cent rates increase this year.

Auckland rates to rise average 2.9pc
Auckland rates to rise average 2.9pc

Auckland rates will rise on average by 2.9 per cent this year under Mayor Len Brown's inflation-sensitive budget to be put…

Pay up or city suffers, business warns
Pay up or city suffers, business warns

Auckland business leaders are sounding dire warnings about the Super City's future if citizens shun road tolls or higher…

Super City

Secret plan papers kept from public
Secret plan papers kept from public

The Auckland Council is sitting on secret documents used to draw up a new planning rulebook for the…

Vote extends port debate

Aucklanders will get a say on reclaiming more of the Waitemata Harbour for port operations after a move to fast-track the…

Editorial: Pool move shows diversity in Super City

Editorial: From the outset, one of the major worries about the Super City framework was the ability of the 21 local boards…

Q & A with Len Brown

How well has Len Brown done against the goals he set himself and the challenges he has encountered? Bernard Orsman finds…

Brian Rudman: Auckland set it up, knock it down
Brian Rudman: Auckland set it up, knock it down

It would be great if Environment Minister Amy Adams could make up her mind about Auckland's new draft…

Mayor does u-turn on available land

Auckland has 2000 new sections ready to build houses on, says Mayor Len Brown, who last month claimed there was enough land…

Barfoot's $2m gift to Auckland

A $1 million sculpture by artist Michael Parekowhai will be installed on Auckland's Queens Wharf as part of a $2 million…

Super City voter scam trial shifted

Eight men accused of an alleged Auckland Super City voter scam have had their trial shifted to the High Court.

Rezone plan spurs slum fears

More than half of Auckland's residential land is to be rezoned for apartments and intensification to squeeze in a million…

Mai Chen: How to get on the Auckland beltway
Mai Chen: How to get on the Auckland beltway

Last week, I started writing an open source user's guide to the Auckland Council, approaching those…

Mayor heavy on 'spin doctors'

Auckland Mayor Len Brown is facing criticism for hiring a sixth "spin doctor" six months out from the official start of…

New life in old Papatoetoe

Townhouses priced from $350,000 are part of an Auckland Council project to revitalise the once bustling middle-class suburb…

Eden Park 'gift' could cost millions

The Government is offering to hand over its interests in Eden Park, the Cloud and Queens Wharf to the Auckland Council…

Waikato 'can take city's overflow'

Waikato town planners are bracing for an overflow of Aucklanders from the Super City as it seeks to find living space for…

Quake proposal fans heritage fear
Quake proposal fans heritage fear

Giving building owners 10 years to strengthen earthquake-prone buildings would amount to an "execution…

Keeping local flavour

A herbal tea garden, beehives on roof spaces and laneways are among ideas for revitalising the Grey Lynn shopping centre…

Watercare opens up on legal costs

Watercare Services is teaching its big brother Auckland Council a lesson in accountability and transparency by releasing…

Boulevards coming to waterfront

Work on creating tree-lined boulevards to connect Fanshawe St and Victoria Park with the waterfront at Wynyard Quarter will…

Brian Rudman: City rail semantics a trifle loopy

If you score the empty end of the Christmas cracker tomorrow, here's a substitute riddle to liven up the festivities.

City wages bill balloons
City wages bill balloons

Staff numbers have risen by 840 in the past year and wages have gone from a forecast $513 million to…

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Politics

Budget will help vulnerable Kiwis

Finance Minister Bill English says the Budget 2013 will help the most vulnerable people in society "who the Government has…

Herald on Sunday editorial: Kiwis need a lot more protection

They are this country's least desirable export and occasionally they come back to bite. They are the New Zealanders who…

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