A resource consent bid for a chicken egg layer farm of 310,000 birds in rural south Auckland has been rejected, because of fears it would be too stinky.

The SkyCity convention centre deal has returned to haunt the Government - and provoke new controversy. In the first of a two-part series, David Fisher investigates.

A picture-perfect cottage in Freemans Bay, Auckland, is for sale for less than $300,000. But, of course, there's a catch.

Two women were forced to sleep in an Auckland park after a council-employed security guard refused to unlock the gates for their horse truck.

Auckland's been judged the 10th most liveable city in the world. Today, we speak to experts and city leaders on how we can jump even higher on the list.

Auckland Council is putting final touches to a beach forecast model to let people find out online the level of harmful bacteria in the water for three days ahead.

The child injury prevention service of Starship Children's Health and Auckland Council rangers have come up with a list of the city's safest, child-friendliest, parks for the sunshine months

Residents of a quiet no-exit Meadowbank street where homes are worth up to $1.9 million are angry Housing New Zealand plans to "slap down" 14 units in their midst.

A woman who bought an Auckland apartment to get on the property ladder has been left "financially strained" and says the property is now worth about half what she paid for it.

A Government proposal that ratepayers help cover a potential $130m blowout in the cost of SkyCity’s new convention centre is going down poorly with several councillors.

New in-fill for artificial fields is being investigated as residents near an Ellerslie complex complain of the "horrible" smell of rubber tyres.

SkyCity chief executive Nigel Morrison yesterday also confirmed his company wants a taxpayer-funded top-up and was willing to walk away from the deal if it doesn't get it.

SkyCity's bid to build the convention centre was accepted for one reason: it did not need public money. Unless it can meet its side of the bargain, all bets are off.

A luxury Remuera home described as totally rebuilt and in the sought-after Grammar Zone has sold nearly twice its new Auckland Council rating valuation.

A prominent commercial real estate financier says land-bankers are ruining Auckland's central business district by leaving many sites vacant for decades.

A huge summer of international events in Auckland will hit fever pitch over the weekend of March 14-15.

'This little truck takes two carpark spaces 10 hours a week and we disturb nobody.' Fish vendors vow to fight a Council order to move.

Aucklanders face some tough choices on the costs and services of the Super City on their return from the festive season.

Plans to raise household rates in Auckland by 5.6 per cent next year and 4.5 per cent a year thereafter are due to approved for public consultation today.

An Auckland Council IT project originally budgeted to cost $71 million should be delivered for the new cost of $172 million, says a senior council executive.

Kim Campbell has organised a meeting this afternoon to discuss strategies to soften up Aucklanders for the sale of the remaining shares in lines company Vector to pay for new roads.

The man who allegedly tried to sell the Monterey pine that stood on Auckland's One Tree Hill for more than a century will not be charged.

Key Auckland transport projects - including some on which work has already started - face long delays unless new funding can be found from road tolls or higher rates.

Winston Peters writes: There is a group of people who want to get rid of the Auckland Energy Consumer Trust. But why fix what isn't broken?

Auckland Council has undertaken a review of guidelines for methamphetamine-contaminated properties and developed tough new proposals to be implemented next month.