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.

Adult cash fares are increasing by 25 per cent on Auckland buses and train trips, in order to encourage more passengers to use electronic ticketing. Is this rise justified?

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.

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.

A man who slept in the branches of a 500-year-old kauri in protest of plans to axe the native tree says he's prepared to stay there for 'as long as it takes'.

Former Prime Minister Helen Clark has weighed in on the battle to stop a 500-year-old kauri from being chopped down in Auckland.

Contractors had been due to chop down the tree this morning but left saying they did not have the power to remove protesters.

A protest group of concerned Aucklanders has joined the outcry against two large wharf extensions by Ports of Auckland, which eventually wants to reclaim 3ha of seabed between the wharves.

Jon Rennie and Nick Strauchan of Athfield Architects show off the new $7.8m Devonport Library.

Auckland Council officers were aware of big problems with an IT project for months before they informed Mayor Len Brown and councillors, official documents show.

What is being done to fix the dangerous intersection at the bottom of the Bullock Track at Western Springs?

Four diverse Aucklanders were asked to try out a new '10-year budget calculator'.

Auckland mayor Len Brown and other local politicians have called for their pay to be reined in by the Government.

Auckland Grey Power has joined youth lobby group Generation Zero's push to cut major road projects and prioritise public transport in Auckland Council's new 10-year budget.

The railway tunnel will serve only a very small fraction of Auckland's population and at a huge cost.

Questions have been raised about Precinct Properties' planned $550 million 35-level Auckland tower.

Can you inquire to see what's happened to the little brass gable house that was situated on the edge of the Dominion Rd boundary of Potters Park?

A $2 motorway toll in Auckland will largely go to widen roads, not build better public transport and cycleways, a debate on transport issues was told last night.