"Fun police strike again," wrote one social media user as word spread a flying fox in an Auckland housing estate has been disabled for being too noisy.

SkyCity and the Government have managed to get their estimates about the cost of the international convention centre proposed for Auckland spectacularly wrong,

Auckland house values rose at almost twice the rate of the rest of New Zealand, up 9.8 per cent or $68,309 in the last year.

We show you how SkyCity's new convention centre would look in central Auckland, as details are revealed for the first time in its resource consent applications.

A resource consent bid for a chicken egg layer farm of 310,000 birds in rural south Auckland has been rejected, because of fears it would be too stinky.

The SkyCity convention centre deal has returned to haunt the Government - and provoke new controversy. In the first of a two-part series, David Fisher investigates.

A picture-perfect cottage in Freemans Bay, Auckland, is for sale for less than $300,000. But, of course, there's a catch.

Two women were forced to sleep in an Auckland park after a council-employed security guard refused to unlock the gates for their horse truck.

The child injury prevention service of Starship Children's Health and Auckland Council rangers have come up with a list of the city's safest, child-friendliest, parks for the sunshine months

First they were blue, then they started going green ... now some Auckland street signs are in a darker shade of blue.

There's an old maxim in poker - "If you don't know who's getting screwed, get up and walk away from the table because it is you."

Residents of a quiet no-exit Meadowbank street where homes are worth up to $1.9 million are angry Housing New Zealand plans to "slap down" 14 units in their midst.

A woman who bought an Auckland apartment to get on the property ladder has been left "financially strained" and says the property is now worth about half what she paid for it.

A Government proposal that ratepayers help cover a potential $130m blowout in the cost of SkyCity’s new convention centre is going down poorly with several councillors.

New in-fill for artificial fields is being investigated as residents near an Ellerslie complex complain of the "horrible" smell of rubber tyres.

A luxury Remuera home described as totally rebuilt and in the sought-after Grammar Zone has sold nearly twice its new Auckland Council rating valuation.

A prominent commercial real estate financier says land-bankers are ruining Auckland's central business district by leaving many sites vacant for decades.

A world-class surfing spot and one of Northland's most picturesque strands of coastline are among more than 40 swimming beaches hit with a "caution" label for water quality.

Slow-speed streets where pedestrians have the right of way have become a feature of the central city and more streets could become more pedestrian-friendly.

A huge summer of international events in Auckland will hit fever pitch over the weekend of March 14-15.

'This little truck takes two carpark spaces 10 hours a week and we disturb nobody.' Fish vendors vow to fight a Council order to move.

Aucklanders face some tough choices on the costs and services of the Super City on their return from the festive season.

Plans to raise household rates in Auckland by 5.6 per cent next year and 4.5 per cent a year thereafter are due to approved for public consultation today.

An Auckland Council IT project originally budgeted to cost $71 million should be delivered for the new cost of $172 million, says a senior council executive.

Kim Campbell has organised a meeting this afternoon to discuss strategies to soften up Aucklanders for the sale of the remaining shares in lines company Vector to pay for new roads.