Modest rentals for beach houses and baches on Auckland Council parks are under pressure from Mayor Len Brown's drive to wipe $2.6 million from the rates bill.

Plans for Auckland's first high-rise brothel will move a step closer this month when Wellington's Chow brothers face those opposed to the plan.

It's as though the market has failed to deliver this core tenet of National Party faith, and so the party does not know what to do, writes Brian Rudman.

The challenge facing Auckland is not just of making housing more affordable but actually building enough houses, writes Gary Taylor.

Thieves have some brewers over a barrel.

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.

Even God had to have a rest after six days of non-stop creating. After six decades, Auckland road builders should do the same, writes Brian Rudman.

Cabinet has decided to delay a key step towards partially privatising Mighty River Power next year until the High Court has heard a Maori Council led bid blocking the sale.

The High Court's Justice Ronald Young put the ball in Cabinet's court this morning over the Maori Council's bid to halt the Mighty River Power sale.

Two years into the Super City and its CCOs, and we've seen the "local" taken out of local government, writes Mark Donnelly. "Amy Adams, has announced Aucklanders are to have lesser rights than other New Zealanders and lose our normal statutory rights."

Editorial: Having produced the big 30-year Auckland Plan, the council is now obliged to produce a more detailed 10-year plan to be called the "unitary plan".

Heritage advocates and local residents waved placards outside a villa occupied by the Erawan Thai restaurant in Jervois Rd, Herne Bay this morning.

Our hopeless GCSB spy service are absolutely culpable for turning a simple exercise into a farce, writes Bob Jones.