It is of concern that while individual home owners and property investors are being encouraged to reduce debt and increase personal savings.

The council bodies that run about 75 per cent of Super City services have been told to front up in person to give an account of their performance.

Five years after they were thrust unwillingly into the political spotlight, things have changed for the residents of McGehan Close - much of it for the better.

A suggestion that prostitution law should be considered in granting resource consent for a brothel and hotel building in the Auckland CBD was strongly disputed.

A record Resource Management Act fine has been handed out to an Auckland landscaping company for dumping contaminated fill,

The priority should be to create a liveable city that is business-friendly, writes Bryce Julyan

Auckland Mayor Len Brown is proposing a rates rise of between 1.9 per cent and 2.9 per cent in next year's election-year budget.

Twenty Auckland Council staff are set to lose their jobs when five visitor information centres are closed as the result of a cost-cutting directive from Mayor Len Brown.

Editorial: Having produced the big 30-year Auckland Plan, the council is now obliged to produce a more detailed 10-year plan to be called the "unitary plan".

A Hawaiian fire dancer performance at the Rugby World Cup and a leather iPad case are among the items slapped on rate-payer funded credit cards.

With changing land uses at the eastern end of the waterfront comes the opportunity to re-think Quay St to serve today's public needs, writes Bob Harvey.

Auckland Council is considering cutting the number of unelected council-controlled organisations from seven to four.