An Auckland firefighter fined for parking his engine at a bus stop has hit out at what he calls over-zealous traffic wardens.

A major roadblock has been unblocked after the Environment Court refused to rule in favour of a powerful landlord.

Auckland Transport wardens who fined more than two dozen residents for parking on footpaths were not so quick to nab a council driver for doing the same thing.

The Auckland Council is holding the line on rules to protect the city's built heritage after being advised they are a burden on landowners seeking to develop their properties.

An attack on a motorist who refused to have his windscreen washed at a South Auckland intersection has sparked renewed calls for the practice to be outlawed.

A review of Auckland Council's sport and recreation assets not only involves 13 golf clubs valued at $200 million-plus, but also all the council's bowling clubs.

Brawl took place at a petrol station near the intersection of Great South Road and Cavendish Drive near Manukau after a run-in with a motorist and the washers.

Auckland Transport should have exercised discretion before ticketing 27 residents at 2am for parking with two wheels on the kerb of a narrow Auckland street, says the Automobile Association.

If you could take out a mortgage fixed for 12 years at 4.01 per cent to invest in an asset that lasts decades, would you?

Review of council's response to flooding during the storm of July 15 reveals media knew more about its effects than its own civil defence emergency managers.

Auckland Council has agreed to drop - for now - the controversial sports field charges which were imposed only on clubs in the central part of the Super City.

The accord's goal is to have 39,000 new sections and dwellings consented by October 2016.

The latest Auckland Economic Quarterly has identified the city's growth across the job market retail spending and construction.

A development company wants to build up to 150 homes on a site that includes playing fields used by the country's biggest special school.

A plan for a five-storey apartment block in Birkenhead is fuelling the intensification-versus-housing choice debate.

A beachfront restaurant at Long Bay Regional Park is facing its third summer of closure as Auckland Council tries to manage concerns over ancient human bones.

Desperate buyers are making high pre-auction offers in the hope of cutting competition in the property market.

Auckland Council is reviewing its ownership of 13 golf courses worth more than $40 million, as pressure builds to find space for thousands of new homes in the city.

"It is a sea change ... one that very few people would have seen coming" - Herne Bay Residents Association chairwoman Christine Cavanagh.

Several families are demanding Auckland Council return Te Atatu harbour land to them, and have taken their fight to the Court of Appeal.

Auckland mayor Len Brown says he's mended the wounds in the relationship between the council and its advisory panels.

Ham on the bone, party hats and crackers were just some of the treats on offer yesterday at a festive gathering for people who sleep rough in Auckland.

About 7000 Auckland residents have successfully challenged their 2014 property revaluations - and the most common outcome has been a fall in the home's CV.

Minister Nick Smith admits that Auckland had a housing shortage, but notes that there were a large number of uncertainties in the analysis.

Auckland Council has appointed the board of Development Auckland, a new council body being set up in September to undertake large-scale developments in conjunction with the private sector.

Supporters of the Takapuna waterfront camping ground turned out in force last night in a bid to push for its long-term lease on public reserve and a facelift.

The Laneway Festival has been told today it cannot move to the Auckland Domain, raising the possibility of the country's largest urban music festival moving to Wellington or Christchurch.

Auckland councillors have rejected a "gagging order" that would require them having to run off to council-controlled organisations(CCOs) before commenting on their business.

Two of the biggest events on the Auckland calendar, the Lantern Festival and Laneway Festival, could move to the Domain.