The Transport Minister, Simon Bridges, may not be as loud and brash in his pronouncements as his predecessors but the message yesterday remained the same.

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.

The Medical Council of New Zealand has issued an edict to the country's district health boards reminding doctors of their obligation to treat any Ebola patients.

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".

Aucklanders are facing Christmas without the city's larger-than-life Santa. The big man's banned after Heart of the City said it couldn't afford the $180k installation.

What is Auckland Council's mandate? According to the royal commission on Auckland governance, amalgamation would provide better services through well co-ordinated resources that, with economies of....

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.

Auckland housing affordability has deteriorated dramatically, with first-home buyers facing higher costs and fewer affordable properties in nearly every suburb.

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.