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Bernard Orsman: Tolling motorways could be mayor's only option
Motorway tolls. Or higher rates and petrol prices. Those are the options being presented to Aucklanders as a silver bullet to fix the city's traffic woes.
Motorway tolls. Or higher rates and petrol prices. Those are the options being presented to Aucklanders as a silver bullet to fix the city's traffic woes.
Auckland Mayor Len Brown has released details of a plan this morning for a $2 toll to enter the city's motorways.
Auckland Mayor Len Brown has released a plan this morning for a $2 toll to enter the city's motorways. Is this a good idea? Send us Your Views.
Aucklanders could pay a motorway toll of about $2 under a congestion-busting plan being unveiled by Mayor Len Brown today.
People do not have to be lawyered up to participate in the Unitary Plan process, says the judge chairing the independent hearings panel.
'Horrific" rates of nearly $50k a year on land still being grazed by livestock prompted the $37.9m sale of one of Auckland's largest land lots.
On election night, re-elected Prime Minister John Key pledged he would lead a third-term Government "for all New Zealanders".
Santa has been saved, with a family-owned company pledging money to keep him on Auckland's main street.
According to the Auckland Council, a planned ban on domestic open fires and the use of old wood burners from 2018 will not involve excessive costs.
Domestic chimneys will have to be cemented up or blocked in other ways before a house with an open fireplace can be sold under the Auckland Council's planned air-quality bylaw.
As the Labour Party goes through its latest leader selection circus, could I suggest they avoid anyone who admits to having visions.
The latest round of Auckland property valuations present, as usual, a double-edged sword.
Relatives of a man who broke his neck riding his bike into a Waihi sink-hole fear he will remain a paraplegic with a slim chance of much rehabilitation.
Council officials have yet to start investigating a sinkhole in Waihi in which a cyclist came close to dying last week, but their boss denies underground gold-mining is to blame.
A protest group halted the removal of a state-owned house in suburban Auckland today in continuation of housing demonstrations in the area.
An 85-year-old great-grandmother will lose part of her property to make way for a road extension - all because the council can't cut down a protected tree.
A unit featured in the Herald today as the home young Aucklander Ben Saunders was hoping to buy has gone to another bidder at an auction this afternoon.
With Nanaia Mahuta entering the race to be Labour leader, Bryce Edwwards asks if the days of the party’s ‘pale, male, and stale’ leaders are over.
Watercare has had to come clean after a whistleblower detailed the closure of two dams supplying Auckland's water for four months due to traces of herbicide.
Mark Ford, who has quietly and efficiently been responsible for ensuring Aucklanders have high-quality water and wastewater disposal, has lost a long battle with illness.
Waterfront Auckland has defended its Wynyard Quarter leasehold deal where apartment owners can pre-pay ground rent for 125 years.
Watercare chairman David Clarke has paid tribute to the company’s former chief executive, Mark Ford, who died earlier today after serious illness.
Andrew Little has huge momentum at the moment, judging by what's being reported in the media and discussed in leftwing circles
A $25 million upgrade of Mt Smart Stadium for the Warriors was considered in 2012, but was never actively pursued.
Is six storeys the new height for apartment buildings in zones approved for four storeys?
Prime Minister John Key says he's upset that the Waitangi National Trust is charging New Zealanders $15 to enter the historic Waitangi Treaty Grounds.
We want hospitals, power stations, rubbish dumps and motorways, and we understand the need for state houses, jails and halfway houses. But not up the road or next door, thanks very much, writes Bruce Morris.
Watercare Services has hit back at a developer who accused it of charging too much for Auckland residential subdivisions.