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Artist paints downtown garden vision

Objectors get their way on towers

<i>Brian Rudman:</i> Are our events strategists blind? What about the arts festival!

Editorial: Auckland gets serious about public fun

Extra $3.9m needed to rebuild Akl status as major event city, says mayor

3 month deadline on bridge walkway

Howick voters getting an extra share of election days

Govt to spend $55m on youth jobs

A new Govt package will give subsidies to employers who agree to train a young person and give them a permanent job.

$3 million to insulate homes agreed by council

Brian Rudman: Aotea Square screen a $3m folly that should be scrapped

The Aotea Square screen was one of those "bright ideas" that got hijacked along the way by the bureaucrats and turned into something very bland and ordinary.

World Cup games plot

Lights gaffe at stadium adds $410k to rugby bill

Head boy for all of Auckland

Hide faces flak from 'forgotten' Devonport

Local Government Minister Rodney Hide stepped into a hotbed of discontent over his Auckland governance reforms at a public meeting of 120 in Devonport this week.

Scheme to track school-leavers hits a hurdle

<i>Brian Rudman:</i> Undemocratic mess must be cleaned up