What a great age to introduce kids to civics, and what better way than by having a repentant mayor visit your school with media scrum in tow, writes Dita Di Boni.

The Home and Family Counselling board has distanced itself from comments made by its executive director supporting Auckland Mayor Len Brown as honorary president of the organisation.

He was the new arrival with an impressive CV who burst onto the political scene hoping for a future with the National Party. But his naked ambition and role in the Len Brown infidelity scandal have left him high and dry

Every supercity seems to have a mayor behaving badly at its helm, writes Dana Wensley. Mayor Len Brown's exploits prove that Auckland can now rub shoulders with other supercities.

Auckland Mayor Len Brown will retain his position as honorary president of a family values organisation despite his two-year extra-marital affair.

Auckland mayor Len Brown has told a radio station this morning he believes public officials' private lives need some protection, in the wake of his affair scandal.

A selection of city landmarks jostling for a spot on the new Monopoly Auckland edition needed a bit more than luck to win a spot on the board.

Poor transport remains Aucklanders' biggest bugbear, eclipsing the shortage of affordable housing.

Len Brown sat down with Herald reporter Bernard Orsman and gave a frank interview about his marriage, integrity and that job reference for his mistress.

Christine Fletcher writes: "While much has been said about the mayor's private life since the election, too little attention has been given to his public responsibility to deliver governance for Auckland."

Independent consultants to examine use of council resources during affair, and treatment of Bevan Chuang.

It was meant to be the scandal that would end the career of a centre-left political leader, but it may end up doing more damage to NZ's political right, writes Bryce Edwards

Though the public seems to be learning to live with a mayor with imperfections on the private front, it's possible another bout of potential humiliations lies ahead, writes Brian Rudman.

John Palino has admitted meeting Bevan Chuang in a Mission Bay car park but denied any knowledge of her affair until it appeared in media two days later.

The right-wing blogger who revealed Auckland Mayor Len Brown's extra-marital affair has denied a plot to unseat the left-leaning politician.

Campaign sex, they called it in the book Primary Colours, sex supercharged with the adrenaline of public life.

John Palino met Len Brown's former mistress for a late-night discussion in a Mission Bay car park the night after the mayoral election and just two days before the affair was made public.

If another favour from Len Brown to Bevan Chuang emerges from the woodwork then the Auckland Mayor has to go, John Armstrong writes.

Bevan Chuang disclosed her criminal conviction to the political ticket that selected her as an election candidate.

The political organiser who asked Len Brown's mistress to reveal the affair has been withdrawn from a global list of influential young people.

The family of the woman behind the Len Brown sex scandal is asking to be left alone.

Half of Aucklanders think Len Brown should continue as mayor after revelations of a two-year extra-marital affair with Bevan Chuang, according to a Herald DigiPoll

Prime Minister John Key said he didn't discuss Len Brown's affair when the pair had their monthly catch-up in Auckland this morning.