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

1. Plan holds no fear for city chiefs

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 city and instructed…

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…

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 there was enough land…

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…

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 official start of…

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…

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 Lynn shopping centre…

1. Million dollar home sales up 36pc

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

1. Councillor: Mayor must control spending

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

1. Win 1 of 25 double passes to the Auckland Seafood Festival with the Food Hub

It's bad enough being sat inside a stuffy, often crowded, opaque-windowed tube, when you know the way home, as it were…

1. Brian Rudman: $59 billion plan enough to give you road rage (93 comments)

Solid Energy ex-chairman John Palmer opposed Treasury's wish to appoint an independent advisor to the company's board last…

1. video Solid Energy: John Palmer challenges PM (2:30)

Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Paul Neazor has cleared the Government Communications Security Bureau of…

1. video GCSB: Commissioner recollects meeting with PM (3:18)

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)