Super City hopefuls aired their sport credentials in Albany, north of Auckland, tonight, with promises of free swimming pool access and a marine park in Hobson Bay.

Over half Auckland's population doesn't support the council's $150 fines for driving in bus lanes.

Should a popular, well-used park give up part of its territory to a herd of imported elephants?

Michael Laws has a theory about why his relationship with a former P addict and prostitute has become public.

Salacious text messages between Wanganui Mayor Michael Laws and a former lover have entered the public arena.

Controversial broadcaster and Whanganui Mayor Michael Laws has gone on radio revealing an "unwise" relationship he was having with a woman from "an unusual background".

We asked nzherald readers what they thought of a Christchurch councillor's $4000 US trip to study sandcastles.

Thirty-five years after smashing the mile record, Sir John Walker is entering a very different race.

A Christchurch city councillor won't stand at the next election after a ratepayer-funded US trip to study sandcastles.

A city councillor is keeping her head below the parapet after taking a $4000 ratepayer funded trip to California to study sandcastles.