Work on the controversial SkyCity convention centre could start before the end of the year.

SkyCity Entertainment Group's stock has avoided a 15-20c hit after it was decided the NZ International Convention Centre does not need resource consent to be publicly notified, according to an expert.

Auckland needs to squeeze in and up and move to having more suburban units and apartments to meet buyers' growing financial constraints and limitations.

“Non-suspicious” faulty electrics was behind a blaze that last night damaged Auckland's historic St James theatre for the second time in a decade.

Taiaroa Royal's Okareka Dance Company has been selected to perform its popular show K'Rd Strip, a mixture of dance, kapa haka and drag, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Auckland Council bureaucrats are at odds over whether 20ha of land at Hobsonville Point should be used for housing or a film studio campus.

Epsom MP David Seymour says the authority which is planning to ban cars from the summit of Mt Eden has no evidence to support one of its central claims.

An elderly man was left lying in a pool of his own blood for half an hour, after two ambulances called to the scene were diverted to more urgent cases.

Auckland Council's bean counters are trying to make a buck out of public lavatories.

One person is in serious condition after the car they were in hit a barrier and crashed on a motorway in Auckland tonight.

Main work on the $2.5 billion city rail link is due to start in May next year, beginning with a new entrance for commuters at the rear of Britomart train station.

Eveline Harvey enjoys a babymoon break in the heart of the city.

The idea of an urban development authority, touted by experts for at least a decade, may again fall on deaf ears, writes Brian Rudman.

A security guard who collapsed and died in the cells of the Auckland District Court might have been saved if there was a defibrillator in the building, a cardiac doctor says.

Three people and a dog are believed to have escaped a fire that gutted a suburban Auckland house overnight.

An Auckland takeaway owner has been landed with a $110,000 rent hike demand.

Auckland's easternmost suburb offers the ideal family trifecta: bike trails, beaches and stunning beauty, writes Debbie Griffiths.

The inner-city youth centre is disappearing, a victim of both lead contamination and changing times. Simon Collins reports.

Choked roads and worsening congestion have led to an “increasing sense of desperation” for Auckland motorists.

There is no sign of a new public space to replace the privatised Queen Elizabeth Square, says the Waitemata Local Board.

A natural re-usable food wrap, a brainchild of three Auckland mums, is one of the creative ideas to be presented at next Sunday's Auckland Fair.

Two people escaped without injury after a car smashed into a shop in Auckland early this morning.

A wooden rake mistakenly left in a duct contributed to a blaze that gutted the kitchen of one of Auckland's most popular eateries.

Auckland police have named the pedestrian killed after being hit by a truck in the central city last night.

The pedestrian who was hit by a truck on Fanshaw St in Auckland tonight has died.

A man accused of stabbing a woman to death and attempting to kill a man in central Auckland last week can now be named.

Auckland Transport believes parking fines are no longer effective and calls for an increase to deter offenders.