The city's arts, culture and civic precinct around Aotea Square is fighting back against the drift of corporate offices, apartments, shops and restaurants.

The head of a panel that selects Auckland Council's Maori advisers threatened councillors with personal legal action over a vote to release ratepayer money.

Auckland Transport has done a 180 on more than two dozen fines issued in a 2am parking blitz.

Auckland Transport has less money to spend on capital works this year, says chief executive David Warburton.

Aucklanders won't be able to choose their next council at the click of a mouse because it is too big.

The Government and Auckland Council have today signed off terms of reference setting out how central and local government will work together to develop the city's transport system.

Media personality Bill Ralston says he is seriously looking at running for a seat on Auckland Council next year.

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.

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.

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.

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?

Auckland Council is reviewing its ownership of the Britomart precinct alongside an asset sales programme canvassing everything from airport shares to the city's art treasures.

Residents of two narrow Auckland streets are furious that council parking wardens fined 27 of them in a 2am blitz on cars with two wheels on the kerb.

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.

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

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 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.

Why don't Auckland councillors jump on a bus and take a study trip south to the People's Project's Garden Place headquarters in Hamilton, asks Brian Rudman.

Auckland Mayor Len Brown led 13 other members of the council family and a business delegation of 43 to Los Angeles - and returned with a bunch of mugs.

"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.