The protest was sparked by port company plans to begin building two massive extensions and Auckland Council voting to ease rules for further reclamation.

A think tank report into unlocking planning obstacles faced by miners says central government needs to fund local councils for handling complex resource applications.

About 2000 people and more than a hundred boats gathered today to protest plans by Ports of Auckland to reclaim more of Waitemata Harbour.

The chairman of the Auckland Council Ethnic People's Advisory Panel has resigned after 11 months on the job, saying the panel was a "token" body.

The chair of the Auckland Council Ethnic People's Advisory Panel has resigned, saying he has serious concerns about how the council is being run.

Auckland's Waitemata Harbour has been "turned from a harbour into a river", by Ports of Auckland expansion, yachting great Chris Dickson says.

Over the past month, Ports of Auckland has made announcements about its intention to extend wharf structures out from Bledisloe Wharf.

Blame injustice, meddlers, wretched fortune, or just plain old karma, but the bell is ringing for Len Brown, writes Toby Manhire.

Prominent business leaders, sailors, architects, musicians have signed an open letter demanding that Ports of Auckland 'stop stealing our harbour'.

Auckland councillor Cameron Brewer has given the strongest hint yet of standing for the Auckland mayoralty.

National MP Shane Reti initially defended himself against bullying claims, but later apologised.

The revelation that even key members of Mayor Len Brown's campaign team have urged him to step down at the next election has prompted a significant development.

Key members of Len Brown's campaign team are turning their attention to other left-leaning candidates at next year’s local body elections.

The council body is doubling the cash fare for CityLink buses to $1 from March 29 and imposing a 50c charge for Hop card users now able to ride them free.

Millions spent on Auckland Council's unpopular stadium strategy wastes ratepayer money and fails to serve our sporting needs, writes John Watson.

Auckland bus users will have to start paying to travel in the central city after Heart of the City and Waterfront Auckland pulled funding for CityLink bus.

Donghua Liu demolished a stone wall and cut down trees allegedly without permission on land where he plans to build an ambitious housing project in Auckland.

Equipped with an Apple Watch and a coathanger, the fugitive hacker Lambshank has probed parliamentary servers and published a trove of top secret internal documents, writes Toby Manhire.

The Herald asked the three leading candidates in the Northland byelection a series of questions.

The country's most expensive state house is being sold to local iwi, almost three years after a tenant was turfed out for benefit fraud.

A pregnant woman and her husband had to sleep in their car after an Auckland motor inn said it had no record of their online booking.

A general tax and grandfathering rates for the elderly are among suggestions from Grey Power to take the sting out of hefty rates rises in a new 10-year budget for the Super City.

The two plans Auckland Council presented as options for our transport system over the next 10 years are a false choice.

The first of a two-part series wrapping up the Herald’s coverage of Auckland’s spending plan, Bernard Orsman asks local board leaders what they think of the proposals.

Auckland Council says its mistake in calculating rates owed by activist Penny Bright was a one-off, and does not indicate a wider issue.

There is a certain irony that at a time Auckland is celebrating its founding as a port city 175 years ago, calls are growing to move the port elsewhere.

Rates activist Penny Bright has won a legal victory in her long-running battle against Auckland Council.

Protests have caused the Government to discuss a council decision allowing the destruction of old kauri and rimu trees.