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Committee wants CCOs to front up

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.

Joel Cayford: Prudent councils shouldn't bank on growth to pay bills

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

Change on 'dead-end' street

Five years after they were thrust unwillingly into the political spotlight, things have changed for the residents of McGehan Close - much of it for the better.

Leaders look afar for vision

Prostitution law concerns rejected

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.

Cemetery has a space crisis

Fire on eighth floor of Auckland Council building

Record RMA fine handed down for illegal dumping

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

Taking a busman's tour of the best cities in the world

House costs surge

Use roads to solve housing crisis, Parnell group urges

Praise for Britomart from council's heritage adviser

Put squeeze on to keep rate rises low

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.

Brown strives for 2% rates increase

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.

Street's extra xmas sparkle

20 council staff to go in revamp

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.