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.

North Shore councillor George Wood and the National MP for North Shore, Maggie Barry, are bagging each other in the latest spat on Auckland's political right.

The Auckland Council is looking at using a "rainy day" fund to reduce the risk of a credit-rating downgrade and higher rates.

The Super City has got a big tick from a report card issued today by the Committee for Auckland lobby group.

Young Aucklanders looking for work will come face-to-face with employers keen to recruit at JobFest.

A member of the Unitary Plan independent hearings panel has fallen foul of city - after sneakily parking a jetski in a council carpark for almost a month.

A strip of coastal pohutukawa forest has been "devastated" along a Takapuna beach clifftop, on and adjacent to land belonging to a Rich List developer.

COMMENT: If there is one part of Auckland that embodies everything wrong with the Council, the SH1 intersection with Hill St at Warkworth would be it.

Auckland deserves collaborative decision making, not political point-scoring, says right-wing trio.

Popular Auckland road famous for its Christmas lights set to become more user-friendly for pedestrians, cyclists and drivers.

Billboards advertising Dan Carter in boxer shorts are being cited by Auckland mayoral candidate Vic Crone as a defence for putting up her own billboards.

Auckland's political right is fragmented and facing failure in the Super City elections, warns former mayor John Banks.

Auckland Council's plans for higher density housing cannot succeed unless the city expands into the countryside, says the council's chief economist.

COMMENT: While the cost of the remedial work will not be insignificant, it needs to be viewed in context, writes Penny Webster.

Aucklanders can see how transport-poor suburbs and areas of intense housing development will be served by newly proposed public transport lines.

A penthouse apartment rented for $1063 a week is part of a $2.1 million leaky building wrangle between a retired Wellington solicitor and Auckland Council.

A scam caller has been phoning elderly Auckland residents claiming to be a council worker.

Major repair costs were not revealed to councillors before the purchase of the ASB Tower for a new council headquarters, says councillor Chris Darby.

The first person to have her home forcibly sold by Auckland Council because of unpaid rates has been ordered to pay an additional $44,000.

The cost of cladding repairs at Auckland Council's Albert St headquarters has blown out from $4 million to an estimated $31m, according to a report.

EXPLORE: See maps of Auckland's Special Housing Areas where new houses will be fast-tracked.

COMMENT: Auckland Council's recent bid to remove and downgrade a large number of "volcanic viewshafts" was shelved following strong criticism.

Auckland is a step closer to having a uniform recycling system.

How many Auckland Council staff does it to take to change a plan? About 40 when it comes to updating the blueprint for the Super City.