The Salvation Army says it felt pressured into carrying out expensive, time-consuming research on buying unwanted state houses because the Government repeatedly referred to the charity as a likely buyer.

Another member of the Ethnic People's Advisory Panel has resigned, with reports at least two of the nine remaining panellists are on the verge of quitting.

Ports of Auckland is planning an offensive this week to sell its expansion plans to Aucklanders, using the carrot of releasing Captain Cook Wharf for public use.

The majority of Auckland councillors now want a rethink on the controversial proposed expansion of the port.

Bottle shops and supermarkets near some Auckland schools may have to stop selling alcohol between 3pm and 4pm each day.

This is what scrabbling for survival looks like. It's a lazy Sunday in Mangawhai and there are a lot of National Party people about.

The Salvation Army has decided against buying state homes off the Government, a blow the Labour Party says is "hugely embarrassing".

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.

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'.

The pork barrels now being rolled out by an apprehensive National Party squaring up to the Peter Pan of politics has turned the Northland byelection into an unusually interesting event.

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

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.

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.