A 17-level, 3073sq m apartment/office block is planned for 38 Fort St in Auckland's CBD where a low-rise building now stands.

If city commuters are ever to be enticed to leave cars at home and use public transport, it will take more than a petrol tax or road toll or a congestion charge.

A select audience with a head for heights got a close-up view of the Melbourne Cup as it was taken around Auckland's Sky Tower Skywalk yesterday.

A cluster of Chinese restaurants does not make a "Chinatown", much as some people might wish it to be so.

Ports of Auckland is set to spread more into the Waitemata Harbour for cargo handling operations with a planned extension to the Fergusson Container Terminal.

Chinese shoppers and business owners in Dominion Rd are at odds with their non-Chinese counterparts about the ethnic precinct being branded "Chinatown".

A 12m-wide sliver of land wedged between two houses is up for sale in Ponsonby.

Neighbours tried to rescue an elderly lady from an Auckland house fire but the flames “were just too big”, they said.

Police received a call reporting a homeless man carrying a firearm in the central city area.

A family are livid at a $4725 rates rise for their elderly mother and say it points to a fundamental problem with property rates.

Modified foot patrols in the Waitemata police district have been instructed to stand still to increase visibility.

The New Zealand Superannuation Fund is sniffing around Auckland's red-hot housing market for investment opportunities.

Residents of 10 houses have been affected by flooding after a water main burst in St Heliers this morning.

Tourists and freedom campers are causing serious health and safety concerns at Silo Park in Auckland's Wynyard Quarter.

'C'mon, let's find the secret chamber.' Dionne Christian's youngsters race ahead of her on this special mission.

It's being heralded as "the world's smallest gelato store" but it might also scoop the title of nation's smallest shop.

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.

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

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.

People from outer suburbs are parking in Grey Lynn and effectively 'stealing' carparks - what are residents rights and what can they do?

Recently emerged from obscurity at 81, this millionaire textile baron remains full of surprises - and that that's just how he likes it.

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.