The Auckland Council deserves kudos for starting to publish details about the spending of ratepayer money.

Labour MP and possible mayoral contender Phil Goff has joined prominent Aucklanders in a second open letter calling on Ports of Auckland and Auckland Council to stop port expansion.

Aucklanders could soon be able to enjoy a beer or a wine legally while picnicking at Takapuna Beach.

More than $100m worth of surplus city-owned land has already been sold and the council says another $250m worth has been cleared for sale.

Auckland ratepayers are coughing up $23.8 million in the region's biggest leaky building case.

A possible ban on alcohol advertising on Auckland Council buildings and land will proceed as part of an alcohol harm reduction policy.

Auckland Transport believes parking fines are no longer effective and calls for an increase to deter offenders.

Auckland Council may follow the example of its transport arm and ban the advertising of alcohol on its land and buildings.

Film-makers face an average 20 per cent hike in Auckland Council fees if they want thundering surf scenes like those in The Piano.

Editorial: Force-feeding has never been a feature of the humble dairy, yet suddenly it finds itself in the business of public health.

The New Zealand Transport Agency is adding two lanes, plus a cycleway to a 9.5km stretch of the Southern Motorway between Manukau and Papakura.

Kim Dotcom has challenged John Banks to a sit-down on the record interview to determine who is telling the truth in the row over filing a false electoral return.

Fletcher's application to have Auckland's Three Kings Quarry rezoned as residential begins this week.

The civil case against disgraced Auckland businessman Alex Swney was called for the first time at the High Court this morning.

There needs to be a shake-up in the charity sector to ensure greater transparency and remove the tax advantages given to big charity groups, a NZ think-tank says.

A 9.9 per cent average rates rise for Auckland households from July is going down badly with residents and ratepayer groups.

Any agreement leading to funding would ask that local roading projects in outer suburbs and bus infrastructure be focus.

Chief economist says Hosking has it wrong when he heaps all the blame for soaring house prices on the Auckland Council.

Len Brown’s office will offer more than $1m to fund a port future study that will take at least a year — not enough time to meet Ports of Auckland’s deadline.

New lending rules targeting Auckland residential property investors will cool the market - but the city's "gravitational pull" will counter any impact, John Key says.

Watercare announced it is increasing the price of water and wastewater in Auckland by 2.5 per cent, just days after Auckland Council voted for a rates increase.

Consent processes regarding the removal of a mature kauri tree on a Titirangi section were correctly followed, a report by Auckland Council has concluded.

Auckland Council's first big forced-sale property case sparked by unpaid rates did not go ahead as planned when the money was suddenly paid.

Groups battling to save the Waitemata Harbour from further port expansion have found a powerful ally in the Auckland Council, the port company's arms-length owner.

Aucklanders facing a new transport rate are paying "far too much" to subsidise the city's trains.

Documents show there were 13 near-misses at Auckland pools recorded last year, most involving children.

Peter Bromhead's take on Auckland rates.

Why should Aucklanders pay a rates hike 9 times greater than inflation because the Govt could not or would not control an unprecedented net migration surge?

Aucklanders who think it's safe to go down to the waterfront again after the "compromise" over the Bledisloe terminal extensions must think again.

A 9.9 per cent rates increase for households has been confirmed after Auckland councillors voted for a general rates rise of 2.5 per cent.