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

1. Watercare to give relief to ratepayers

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

1. Plan holds no fear for city chiefs

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

1. Can you afford this house?

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

1. Aucklanders face petrol tax or road tolls

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

1. Sections to soar in value under plan

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

1. Mayor has support to reclaim more of harbour - council source

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

1. Editorial: Super City needs battle for mayoralty, not a shoo in (50 comments)

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

1. video Q and A with Mayor Len Brown (7:47)

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

1. Many Auckland firms expect boost

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

1. City subsidy for posh homes touted

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

1. Len Brown catches Auckland's first double-decker

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

1. Two arrested in voter enrolment probe

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

1. Graeme Wheeler: No easy fix for high kiwi

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

1. Heather Shotter: Let's tell the world what we're all about (22 comments)

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

1. Licence on fast-track before family function

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

1. House supply gap begins to close

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

1. Butterfly-killing plant on pest hit-list

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

1. Penny Hulse: Jobs for youth big part of city's 'most liveable' vision (14 comments)

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

1. Brian Rudman: Bureaucrats more destructive than quakes (40 comments)

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

1. Million dollar home sales up 36pc

Brian Rudman asks, "What would the great Liberal and Labour social pioneers think of the cripple-bashing that occurred last…

1. Andrew Geddis: We owe it to ourselves to be outraged (101 comments)

Several official reports out this week raise questions about the integrity of public life in New Zealand, writes Bryce Edwards.…

1. Bryce Edwards: Political round-up: Evaluating the political life and achievements of Parekura Horomia

Residents of the eastern Bay of Plenty say there is still an "inner bitterness" towards police after the way they were treated…

1. Editorial: Raids report offers lessons for the future (39 comments)

Spending on rail in Auckland has been compared to a "black hole of Calcutta" as right-leaning councillors take an increasingly…

1. Brian Rudman: Enough reports - get on with rail (117 comments)