What hope for the CBD in 30 years when Auckland is home to another million residents and still tunnel-less? Brian Rudman on Auckland transport.

Officialdom is taking offence at a renegade public artwork of graffiti-covered tanks at Wynyard Quarter.

The $20 million revamp of Titirangi's Lopdell House is stepping up in the New Year with work starting on strengthening its frame and refurbishing the building.

Tests are being carried out on asbestos-containing material found in truck loads of soil dumped at Glendowie Park right opposite Glendowie Primary School.

It is of concern that while individual home owners and property investors are being encouraged to reduce debt and increase personal savings.

The council bodies that run about 75 per cent of Super City services have been told to front up in person to give an account of their performance.

A suggestion that prostitution law should be considered in granting resource consent for a brothel and hotel building in the Auckland CBD was strongly disputed.

A record Resource Management Act fine has been handed out to an Auckland landscaping company for dumping contaminated fill,

The council bodies that soak up a lot of ratepayers' money are not impressing their political masters when it comes to reducing rates next year.

The priority should be to create a liveable city that is business-friendly, writes Bryce Julyan

Editorial: If Mayor Len Brown can keep the Auckland Council's rates to a rise not much above 2 per cent next year he will be doing well.

Auckland Mayor Len Brown is proposing a rates rise of between 1.9 per cent and 2.9 per cent in next year's election-year budget.

Twenty Auckland Council staff are set to lose their jobs when five visitor information centres are closed as the result of a cost-cutting directive from Mayor Len Brown.