Auckland Council's shares in the city's international airport and port facilities would be eagerly snapped up, say market players.

I am one of those in local government who’s advocating for greater and urgent focus to be placed on containing council costs and, if required, rationalising their expansive role, writes Cameron Brewer.

The All Blacks are scheduled to play most of their matches at the Rugby World Cup in England, including the final hopefully, during the hours the bars would be closed.

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

Allowing councils to charge rates against Crown-owned properties such as schools should be investigated, most of the country's local authorities believe.

The sale of Queen Elizabeth Square is not following the same successful planning path as Britomart, Wynyard Quarter and Viaduct Harbour, says the Auckland Architecture Association.

Auckland Transport is warning passengers of potential bedding-in glitches after it replaces diesel trains this morning with electrics.

Auckland Council will be cracking down on bars that want to screen Rugby World Cup games after hours, with each venue having to put on special events to stay open.

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

Households in the suburbs of Mangere and Otahuhu face an average rates rise of 16.9 per cent this year, or more than $300.

Here’s one for online genealogy fans — can you find modern day connections to seven families buried in New Zealand’s largest cemetery?

Auckland Chamber of Commerce chief executive Michael Barnett said 'ratepayers deserve to know how well the Council is performing'.

Aucklanders facing rates rises have shown an "overwhelming" appreciation of a $60,000-plus phone campaign to forewarn them, the council says.

Auckland Council is spending tens of thousands to provide advance warnings to householders to be hit by rates rises not due to be generally notified until midnight.

Tourists and freedom campers are causing serious health and safety concerns at Silo Park in Auckland's Wynyard Quarter.

Views of Auckland's famous volcanoes are in the firing line as big landowners and property developers seek changes to the Auckland unitary plan.

Protected views of volcanoes are threatening Auckland's goals of affordable housing and a compact city, major property owners say.

Auckland Council’s family violence and disability specialists may lose their jobs in a plan to slash the council’s community development staff by almost a quarter.

Pornography can be accessed on Auckland Council’s free wireless internet.

A council body has four months to produce a viable film studio plan at Hobsonville Pt or the land will be used for housing.

Two Auckland Council bodies are at loggerheads over whether 20ha of land at Hobsonville Pt should be used for housing or a film studio.

People are concerned about rates - I am too. But as a result of our budget work and the adoption of a levy we can invest more in transport, writes Auckland mayor Len Brown.

Adding speed bumps and mirrors to long driveways are among measures a child safety group has included in submissions to the Auckland Council's Unitary Plan.

Auckland's Harbour Bridge set for radical change as cycling and walking attachment gets resource consent.

Auckland Council's bean counters are trying to make a buck out of public lavatories.

A ruling on resource consents for the SkyPath cycling and walking attachment to the Auckland Harbour Bridge will be made public tomorrow, an Auckland Council official says.

Fees for burial plots across the Auckland region increased by an average 22 per cent, fees for ash plots by 14 per cent, and internment fees by 132 per cent.

Barney Irvine urges the Government and Auckland Council to strive for an accord on transport when they meet tomorrow.

People from outer suburbs are parking in Grey Lynn and effectively 'stealing' carparks - what are residents rights and what can they do?

A life-size version of the Green Man in the pedestrian "cross now" lights brought laughter to Auckland's CBD.