A publicly-owned entity must pay Mobil almost $1m in courts costs for its failed attempt to get the oil company to pay for the clean-up of Auckland's tank farm.

Waiheke's biggest landowner is challenging zoning classifications on parts of its holdings on the island's eastern tip in the Stony Batter Historic Reserve war fortifications vicinity.

Expansion by the two dominant supermarket chains has moved into a new phase, with more than $300 million of work under way.

A new $120 million 150-unit apartment block is planned for Auckland CBD's western fringe.