A long, wet winter has led to complaints about Auckland parks not being mowed.

EDITORIAL: Petrol tax is coming but the Auckland Council should attend to its costs first.

Leaked review shows more than 200 communications staff employed at council organisations.

Auckland Council employs 234 communications staff at a cost of $45.6m to ratepayers.

Motorists are flooding the Herald with complaints against the proposed petrol tax.

COMMENT: Rural Rodney finds the Auckland Council too big, too distant from its needs.

Labour says it will make an immediate start on building a light tram system.

Auckland Council's zero household waste to landfill policy questioned.

Researchers building a business case for a bond used to fund permanent native forestry.

Phil Goff has welcomed the new Government but says it is no magic wand for Auckland.

Auckland's bold mission to rid itself of pests has been met with a groundswell of support.

Auckland's polluted Waitemata Harbour could get an extra $600m to improve water quality.

COMMENT: Attempt to make housing market work has been abject failure.

Auckland Council is defending its proposed new alcohol policy.

EDITORIAL: Many Aucklanders face a nervous wait in the next few weeks.

More than 500,000 homes in the Auckland region to jump in value.

Auckland is home to many endangered species. Here's how locals can help save 10 of them.

Former Lehman Brothers investment banker Ian Short has come home to address climate change

Lifeguards gave the child CPR while an ambulance arrived.

Key's tennis court site for new family home.

Earliest opening to be 7am under draft bottle-shop rules.

Jane Devonshire was only five weeks into her new job when she was crushed by a truck.

Council bowls garage after owner ignores court order.

A new tool allows Aucklanders to work out how much rooftop solar panels could save them.

The costs of moving the port to an alternative location will be examined.

For years, Auckland Council knew about unstable land at site of Birkenhead slip

Fewer than 100 homes provided instead of the thousands planned.

Winston Peters is "where we need him", independence group says.

People are stealing tags on a new rubbish collection system in West Auckland.

Auckland ratepayers are shelling out for big salaries and an even bigger wages bill