Low voter turnout in Auckland is spurring a call for a major review of local body elections.

Phil Goff attended a church service for cats and dogs in central Auckland yesterday. Vic Crone kept out of the rain, criss-crossing the city's malls.

The Auckland Mayoral candidates address Hinekia directly to canvas for her vote in the current local body election

Phil Goff's alarm clock will ring at 6am today. He will get up, put on gumboots and feed out baleage to the steers at his 8ha farmlet in Clevedon.

Len Brown was the Super City's first mayor. However, it's arguable how he will be most remembered.

Hinekia Fitzgerald has never voted in a Local Body election. Can two elections experts convince her why her vote matters?

Part two of the #WillSheVote series. Hinekia speaks to two Massey Uni local government experts.

From the moment you jump into the shower in the morning until you stagger back home later that night after a few post-work beers

Elections benefit from colourful, quirky, and dissident candidates - even distasteful ones. So who are New Zealand local government's current crop of outsiders?

Hinekia Fitzgerald has never voted in a local body election. Will this election be different?

If the race for Auckland's mayor was won on social media, Chloe Swarbrick would leave everyone else in her digital dust.

Why are young people so alienated from politics? People aged 18-24 are the least likely age-group to vote in the upcoming local body elections.

COMMENT: Auckland needs a new direction set by the elected representatives not the bureaucracy.

We went to various communities to ask them what they want from a new mayor - here is what they said.

Polls say Phil Goff will be Auckland mayor. So how do the other contenders keep going ?

A joint campaign has come under fire from their opponents claiming it puts their independence in question.

Losing a leg to cancer as an 11-year-old wasn't enough to put Katrina Bungard off from standing up for others. The Howick Local Board

After three days of counting in the postal ballot, 5.8 per cent of the city's 1,031,667 registered voters have voted.

Lianne Dalziel and John Minto went head to head in the first mayoral debate on CTV, but it became clear during the debate that they could be great pals.

A former city councillor during the Sir Hamish Hay era is making a bid to return to local politics. Gabrielle Stuart reports.

An online tool has been launched to help voters match their values and concerns to candidates in three mayoral elections.

A Hastings election that otherwise might have been fought over dull big-picture issues has been blindsided by another big topic: water quality.

Homelessness, unemployment and infrastructure are key challenges facing one of the North Island's tourist hot spots, Rotorua.

Whether to accommodate out-of-towners or for residents struggling to find a house to put over their heads, the need for houses is strong in Taupo.

A local body candidate has been the victim of an apparent racist attack on one of her billboards.

Young people and migrants are the least interested sectors of the community in regards to local politics, according to a new survey.

Incumbent mayor Sheryl Mai says Whangarei's biggest challenge and strength is its growing population.

The exit of long-serving mayor Stuart Crosby has created a wide-open race for Tauranga's top job.

A Hamilton mayoral candidate has apologised for a mistake-ridden profile written in Te Reo Maori that was put together using Google Translate.