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Call to probe City Rail Link's costs
Auckland councillors want the Auditor-General to investigate the City Rail Link's billion-dollar costs.
Auckland councillors want the Auditor-General to investigate the City Rail Link's billion-dollar costs.
An Auckland electrician who rescued a young pup out of a rubbish bin is disappointed to his good deed might end with it being put down.
A top Auckland Council official has questioned whether a new Auckland urban development authority is needed.
Sometime next year, when the Waterview tunnels are opened, Auckland's planned motorway network will be virtually complete.
A members bill to crack down on windscreen washers has the support of police and Auckland Council.
New homes and sections created under the Auckland Housing Accord have dropped below target as the building industry struggles to find extra labour.
COMMENT: So why are the houses that we so desperately need not being built? In my view, the supply of land is not the main problem.
John Key is allowing companies - including from China - to fund and build some of Auckland's infrastructure.
An Auckland Council worker has escaped serious injury after his car was struck by a freight train in West Auckland this morning.
Dog registration fees have risen this year but are cheaper if owners re-register their dogs during the "earlybird period".
COMMENT: Is a downtown port in the biggest city the best use of the nation's most valuable real estate?
If the railway works as its planners intend, it will make Auckland a more compact city, boosting its CBD and attracting more dense development.
Tomorrow ground will be broken on the biggest construction project New Zealand has ever seen.
The Government has settled on a simplistic solution to the Auckland housing shortage.
Residents of a seaside suburb are unhappy a children's playground is going ahead, saying it will attract undesirables leaving needles and condoms.
The city's alcohol policy is under review and the police are not alone in wanting the licensed hours reduced.
A drunken brawl that left Melissa Ansin's partner George Siaosi trapped in his own body highlights the battle to create a safe city at night.
Dodgy imported products are being found on building sites across Auckland, including electrical wiring, toughened safety glass shower doors and roofing tiles.
A family has launched a public campaign and begun legal action against Auckland Council after being denied access to the buried ashes of a relative shifted without its knowledge.
Soaring house prices spurred by Auckland's rampant real estate market is one of the most pressing problems facing John Key ahead of Thursday's Budget.
COMMENT: If council issued infrastructure bonds and tied them to rates targeted to residents of developments it could kill a couple of birds with one stone.
COMMENT: Housing issues of all shapes are popping out for the Government like a game of whack-a-mole.
The $33 million SkyPath just got a step closer and could be open by next summer.
I live in the go-to suburb for "gentrification" comedy. Even a house in naff Avondale is now unaffordable.
Mayoral candidate Mark Thomas wants Local Boards to be able to sell under-used community assets, like stadiums, and use the proceeds for new facilities in their communities.
An Onehunga property owner has been fined $30,000 for building a garage without a resource consent.
Labour says move will get people out of cars, caravans, garages and tents.
Auckland businesses want the city's new mayor to focus on making it easier and faster to approve building consents, a survey shows.
Auckland Council bought ASB Tower for $104 million after only carrying out a visual inspection.