Auckland Council will start working with different agencies and sectors to tackle the city's growing homelessness problem.

Waterview's wonderful motorway connection is exciting but more catch-up is needed, writes Liam Dann.

Quality affordable accommodation is essential to become a world-class city, writes Oliver Hartwich.

Auckland will be a completely different city five years from now, Heart of the City's Viv Beck tells Bill Bennett.

Spark is making sure the Auckland region is well covered with mobile connection, reports Bill Bennett.

Project AucklandAlong with housing, getting around Auckland is the biggest challenge our city faces, writes Dr Lester Levy.

COMMENT: The path to development lies to Auckland's south, writes Stephen Selwood.

A new campaign aims to attract more people into the busy construction sector, writes Graham Skellern.

Central Auckland's strong knowledge and service-based economy is generating pressures the rest of Auckland and the Waikato-Bay of Plenty neighbours are starting to happily exploit, writes Tony Garnier.

Project AucklandAuckland is at the forefront of development in virtual and augmented reality, writes Graham Skellern.

Project AucklandWe need a 'big-picture approach' when it comes to building our communities, writes Connal Townsend.

Tim McCready talks priorities for the new Auckland Council and mayor with ANZ's Patrick Brockie and John Vetter.

Auckland Council has put in an indicative bid for the $1 billion housing infrastructure fund.

Auckland Mayor Phil Goff has expressed a strong desire to see "assets sustained and protected for generations to come".

A van has leaked battery acid over the Southern Motorway in Auckland.

Project director thanks Aucklanders for their patience with all the construction work in the inner city.

Fines to cyclists have nearly halved in the past five years.

More than a dozen people including four youths were arrested at Christmas in the Park last night.

Parnell is enjoying a renaissance thanks to its retailers and galleries, writes Sarah Daniell.

Paula Bennett is a handful of votes away from becoming New Zealand's Deputy Prime Minister.

A burst water main on Auckland's Mt Wellington Highway is causing delays for motorists.

Jacinda Ardern is thinking of standing in Mt Albert as MP David Shearer looks set to quit Parliament.

Charges against an Auckland rabbi have been dismissed following an disagreement with another man.

Charter school NCEA pass rates are out of line with state schools, new analysis shows.

Police are speaking to a suspect after a man asked an Auckland schoolboy to get into his car this morning.

National MP Nikki Kaye has returned to Parliament for the first time since her cancer diagnosis, confirming she will stand again in Auckland Central.

Schools are struggling to recruit hundreds of teachers ahead of the 2017 school year.

It started with headaches. Then they got worse, so bad, that Jordan Dolbear had to take time off from his clinical placement for his nursing degree.

A car crash and a bus breakdown has led to traffic crawling through Auckland's central motorway at lunchtime.

A Remuera mother and grandmother who was killed yesterday after being hit by a car is being remembered as a very caring person with a beautiful family.