
Aucklanders saving water as severe drought continues
Aucklanders are still being asked to limit showers to four minutes.
Aucklanders are still being asked to limit showers to four minutes.
The council is also looking at payment plans for ratepayers facing hardship.
A 'public' walkway that is actually on private land is closed as part of Covid response.
Final rates instalment due next month, but Auckland ratepayers may struggle to pay.
Construction workers and coffee are returning to the Auckland CBD next week.
The city's water dams are at a critically low level below 50 per cent.
COMMENT: Supercity leaders need to do more to convince public 'we are in this together'.
About one-in-four of Panuku's commercial tenants are facing hardship.
Some have jumped to take voluntary cuts, others have called them 'morally indefensible'.
Police say they are "appalled" at this type of behaviour.
The tide has gone out on international tourism.
Goff and councillors have agreed to 20% pay cuts in solidarity with New Zealanders.
There are also plans for turning traffic to give way to pedestrians crossing the road.
"The anti-Semitic and supremacist use of the Star of David is abhorrent."
The council will waive the bed tax paid by hotels and accommodation providers.
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Phil Goff says if the law does not allow, he will donate a pay cut to charity.
Ralph Norris feels the council is not doing as much as the Government.
The money could help the council's projects in Auckland's CBD and South Auckland.
The NZ Transport Agency is also make advance payments to contractors.
Chris Darby said Auckland should stop being spoon-fed money for rapid transit.
The Government's criteria is to create jobs and get projects underway in short order.
There's been a dramatic fall in the number of noise complaints in NZ's larger cities.
Tree fragments dating back 28,000 years have been uncovered in Auckland.
Council has now set-up a food distribution centre at Spark Arena to keep up with demand.
Auckland Mayor Phil Goff says council's holding in AIA will fall to 18 per cent from 20.
Phil Goff wants to stick with a 3.5 per cent rates rise in July.
Goff said the virus had created the worst recession since the 1930s.
Focus: Spark Arena has been transformed by Auckland Council into a food distribution centre for Aucklanders in need due to job losses and financial hardship as a result of Covid-19. Video / RNZ