Penny Bright - arrested 22 times, often at Auckland City Council meetings - has received a "Good Citizen" award from a council community board.

The Auckland City Council intends spending $87,000 of ratepayers' money on a staff-only farewell bash and 32 smaller department dos before it is replaced by the Super City.

Shocked education officials are surprised police won't put more effort into catching bus drivers who speed through special 40km/h zones.

Police say increasing numbers of girls as young as 12 are working as prostitutes in Auckland's city centre.

A resident's complaint about "strange men knocking at his door" has led to a council using a technical clause to close a brothel.

Timeout has a quick chat with Jake Faafua, Auckland city's longest-serving noise control officer and star of new reality series Noise Control on TV3.

The Auckland City Council is under fire after neglected storm water drains flooded a supermarket.