The High Court's Justice Ronald Young put the ball in Cabinet's court this morning over the Maori Council's bid to halt the Mighty River Power sale.

Two years into the Super City and its CCOs, and we've seen the "local" taken out of local government, writes Mark Donnelly. "Amy Adams, has announced Aucklanders are to have lesser rights than other New Zealanders and lose our normal statutory rights."

Editorial: Having produced the big 30-year Auckland Plan, the council is now obliged to produce a more detailed 10-year plan to be called the "unitary plan".

Heritage advocates and local residents waved placards outside a villa occupied by the Erawan Thai restaurant in Jervois Rd, Herne Bay this morning.

Our hopeless GCSB spy service are absolutely culpable for turning a simple exercise into a farce, writes Bob Jones.

Justice Minister Judith Collins has watered down legal aid reforms which aimed to save money by charging for family and civil disputes.

It took two days last week to flatten a gully full of native and exotic trees in Auckland's Westmere into a "nuclear wasteland", angering residents.

For anyone who doubts the need for the inner-city rail tunnel, the recent draft public transport plan is the document to change your mind, writes Brian Rudman.

On the face of it there were some positive responses to the 25 recommendations of the Hunn Report on the leaky-building crisis, writes David Kernohan,

Auckland Transport is under political pressure to accelerate a roading link in Mangere to replace a walkway with a history of sex attacks.

Central city carparks provided to workers will soon be taxed in a move described as "petty" by Opposition MPs.

A fatal and fast-spreading disease has claimed 50 trees in South Auckland despite millions of dollars being spent in an attempt to stop it.

The proposed stadium shuffle for Auckland shouldn't come at the expense of tradition.

Car parks behind one of Auckland's finest beaches could be turned into an expanded public reserve under a council plan.