Time-consuming and unproductive "distractions" involving Tim Shadbolt's council are behind Suzanne Prentice's bid to become Invercargill's new mayor.

The Auckland Regional Council has been ordered to pay almost $100,000 to a developer.

A new generation of conservatives has wrested our biggest city from the left, and they're just as likely to wear black jeans as business suits.

North Shore's "leaky mayor", Andrew Williams, apologised again yesterday ... this time for putting a cartoon showing Rodney Hide as Adolf Hitler on his Facebook page.