Auckland Council is paying $60.7 million for Auckland University's home for cricket and rugby.

Cartoonist Rod Emmerson's view on Len Brown's Judgment Day.

The NZ Herald has today called for Len Brown to stand down, after it was revealed he failed to declare free hotel rooms and upgrades. But what do New Zealanders think?

Auckland Mayor Len Brown could face a vote of no-confidence tomorrow, with a quarter of the city's councillors proposing the motion.

Auckland mayor has said he is copping "a fair old whack around the ears" this "annus horribilis" and repeated his failure to declare hotel freebies was 'a lack of clarity' on his part,

Officials in New Zealand's leading oil and gas region are rejecting claims that cows are being allowed to graze on land polluted by waste from mining and fracking operations.

Auckland councillors have agreed to censure Mayor Len Brown after a five-hour meeting today to decide how to punish him over fallout from his sex scandal.

There's been a battle over the weekend about how to interpret, sell, and spin the asset sales referendum results, writes Bryce Edwards.

Regardless of the rights or wrongs of the upgrades arithmetic, the mayor's reputation is in tatters, writes Brian Rudman. His redemption, and his legacy, now relies on him delivering the goods.

Political campaign worker Luigi Wewege pocketed $13,000 for just three months' work on John Palino's failed Auckland mayoral bid - a sum that has surprised volunteers on other political campaigns.

Embattled mayor Len Brown tomorrow faces an angry council seeking to blunt his powers in the wake of the mayoral sex scandal.

The report into Auckland Mayor Len Brown's use of council resources was finally issued yesterday after legal wrangling delayed its release.

Len Brown says he is no lame-duck mayor after a damning report found he failed to declare more than $39k in free hotel rooms and upgrades.

Len Brown used his council phone to make nearly 1400 personal calls and texts to Bevan Chuang and failed to declare more than $39,000 in free hotel rooms and upgrades.

Politics blogger Bryce Edwards rounds up reaction to the news that the Prime Minister's press secretary Jason Ede sent photos to WhaleOil.

Wellington City Council has admitted personal details of up to 120,000 people were inadvertently released by its parking contractor.

Like the colourful Mayor Rob Ford of Toronto, Mr Brown, if he so desires, can sit it out until hell freezes over, writes Brian Rudman. That's unless he's chased out of town and thus ceases to remain an elector.

The use of hotel rooms by Mayor Len Brown is believed to be at the centre of a legal wrangle holding up the release of a report into any use of council funds during his affair.

Is it any wonder that poverty tends to be put in the 'too hard' basket, asks politics lecturer Bryce Edwards.

Without action, Auckland faces a shortage of business-zoned land, potentially hampering manufacturing, transport, storage, construction and wholesale trades.

Auditor-General Lyn Provost is keeping a watching brief on Auckland Council chief executive Doug McKay's review of Mayor Len Brown's possible use of council resources.

Auckland Mayor Len Brown is taking advice as he ponders the first draft of an Ernst & Young report. into any use of council resources during his two-year affair.

The death of Mandela has given rise to some very important and interesting political debate in NZ, writes Bryce Edwards.

Housing Minister Nick Smith and his Cabinet colleagues have finally decided to lead from the front in dealing with Auckland's housing crisis, writes Brian Rudman. They are to fast-track the purchase of 16.5ha at Hobsonville Pt.

The Auditor-General's damning report into the Kaipara District Council's Mangawhai sewerage scheme is a salutary counterbalance to the positive Ernst and Young report on the public private partnership model for building new infrastructure.

Never before has the word 'corruption' been in so much use in New Zealand politics, writes Bryce Edwards. The legal trial of John Banks is just the latest political scandal that involves allegations of corruption.

Parliament last night passed a law without dissent validating irregularities in the setting and assessing of rates by the Kaipara District Council from the 2006-07 financial year to 2011-12.

A judge has ruled the US city of Detroit is eligible to shed billions in the largest public bankruptcy in the country's history.

A council bylaw making the wearing of lifejackets compulsory on small boats is about the changing face of Auckland, says Watersafe Auckland chief executive Sandra Harrop.