City powerless on its biggest issue
The Government intends to give control of transport in the Super City to a largely unelected board.
The Government intends to give control of transport in the Super City to a largely unelected board.
Chris Barton meets Mark Ford, the low profile but immensely powerful executive creating Auckland's Super City.
Auckland Super City plans have been called "fundamentally broken" and undemocratic by Auckland's leaders in select committee hearings.
Auckland City Mayor John Banks is telling rugby fans to steer clear of Prime Minister John Key's "party central" on Queens Wharf and party elsewhere in the city.
Auckland's mayors will not commit to funding the 'party central' development without a waterfront masterplan in place.
Where you'll live, what sort of house you'll have and how much it'll cost will be influenced by reforms that promise more affordable housing.
Co-operative approach by Auckland region's councils makes map-based data easier to use.
Treating effluent to make it reusable would not be economic, say experts.
Toxic sea slugs could be living in the waters around New Zealand but money to study them is proving harder to find than the slugs themselves.
A sporting disaster involving football superstar David Beckham was the wrong event at the wrong time and for the wrong price, a review has found.
Franklin residents will be split between the new Auckland Supercity, Waikato and Hauraki district councils.
The century-old male infirmary ward at Greenlane Hospital has been saved from demolition.