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Inside Economics: Is the brain drain keeping unemployment down?

ANALYSIS: Is the brain drain distorting our own unemployment rate?

Simon Wilson: Michelin restaurants v elbows on the table

Opinion: What's really going on when the Government pays for Michelin praise.

New Councillor Victoria Short’s powerful speech

From being pregnant at 18 and surviving domestic violence to politics, new councillor delivers powerful speech.

Residents oppose plans for 9-level purple apartment block, The Kubrick, in wealthy Auckland suburb

It could be much worse. Plan change 120 means area zoned for 15 levels, opponents admit.

Police justified in West Auckland shooting, IPCA finds

IPCA said the officer’s use of force was reasonable and proportionate.

Deborah Pead: Has Gen Z killed the department store?

Ballantynes says it is 'feeling the squeeze' as NZ’s retail icons disappear.

Property Insider: Beachcroft gets new builder: Seascape, Du Val good news? Southern Cross at Epsom

Nervous buyers of a big Onehunga block have been told they will be settling soon.

Mark Gedye: Saying Auckland's CBD is dead is unhelpful and inaccurate

OPINION: More than 100 new businesses are set to move into Midtown by early 2026.

'Load of nonsense': Frustration from Ponsonby locals over parking plan

Auckland Transport has proposed extending paid parking into evenings on key streets.

Scouts say freedom campers are turning Herne Bay carpark into public toilet

Parents say children aged 6 must walk from further away as parking spots fill up.

AT considers charging people to park in Ponsonby at night

Paid parking could extend to 9pm on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.

Auckland Council's $320m plan to transform Wynyard Point: Park, offices, apartments

John Fillmore Contracting won the job for earthworks at Wynyard Point, starting in April.

Govt considers powers to move homeless people from central Auckland

Housing First plans 300 new homes for rough sleepers by Christmas.

'A light to everyone who knew her': Woman found dead in Auckland apartment named

Police say initial post-mortem results show the woman was stabbed.

'Incredibly weak period': No end forecast to falling rents

National rents have dropped 1.1% annually – one of the first falls since 2009.

Two arrested after doing burnouts at funeral proceeding in Auckland cemetery

Police said a mourner began doing burnouts in front of the crematorium.