A $100 million office block is planned behind the Britomart Transport Centre, which could be expanded.

New Zealand Rugby has unveiled plans for a high-tech All Blacks-themed tourist attraction in Auckland's Wynyard Quarter. To be built on a prime site, The All Blacks Experience attraction will open in 2017.

A controversial new $50 million dome-shaped silo for storing cement has been inflated on Auckland's waterfront.

I'd like to see the Conservation Minister visit the sub-Antarctic region, perhaps for her Christmas holidays, writes Paul Charman.

An outspoken economist says it's wrong to have land tied up when there's a shortage for residential development.

Forget the hikoi and library training, the answer the council needs is in Utah - and it's quite straightforward, writes Brian Rudman.

One of Auckland's most upmarket new apartments hits the market tomorrow, although it is not yet built.

Local board's plans to change parts of a 33ha golf course has prompted a note of caution from a senior Auckland Council politician.

Albert-Eden Local Board decides to develop plan which could reduce the size of the golf course in order to create sports fields.

Auckland's Viaduct Harbour has finally got some green space with a $1.2 million makeover of Waitemata Plaza.

A chopper flight gives photographer Mark Meredith an inspiring new perspective of the City of Sails.

Three people were injured after a crash in south Auckland early this morning.

From seaplanes to DC3s to stunt planes, Sarah Ell finds myriad ways to see Auckland from the skies.

Auckland is undergoing one of the most rapid transformations in its history, says a leading architect.

The street of restaurants is already famous, it doesn't need to be tagged with an inaccurate brand, writes Brian Rudman.

Faulty software has been blamed for a pay machine in Auckland's Downtown parking building gobbling up a motorist's $50 note and leaving her with a "credit ticket".

Two real estate bosses have now backed a foreign buyers' register.

Developer Willis Bond has taken deposits on more than half of its planned 164 new Wynyard Quarter apartments.

WATCH: Water gushes through supermarket ceiling and leaves shoppers in the deep.

City's quest for more money is nothing new...but a better answer would be to stop throwing it around.

A 17-level, 3073sq m apartment/office block is planned for 38 Fort St in Auckland's CBD where a low-rise building now stands.

If city commuters are ever to be enticed to leave cars at home and use public transport, it will take more than a petrol tax or road toll or a congestion charge.

A select audience with a head for heights got a close-up view of the Melbourne Cup as it was taken around Auckland's Sky Tower Skywalk yesterday.

A cluster of Chinese restaurants does not make a "Chinatown", much as some people might wish it to be so.

Ports of Auckland is set to spread more into the Waitemata Harbour for cargo handling operations with a planned extension to the Fergusson Container Terminal.

Chinese shoppers and business owners in Dominion Rd are at odds with their non-Chinese counterparts about the ethnic precinct being branded "Chinatown".

A 12m-wide sliver of land wedged between two houses is up for sale in Ponsonby.

Neighbours tried to rescue an elderly lady from an Auckland house fire but the flames “were just too big”, they said.

Police received a call reporting a homeless man carrying a firearm in the central city area.

A fire has destroyed a home in an upmarket Auckland suburb this afternoon.