Over recent months, Auckland Deputy Mayor Penny Hulse has found herself advocating for a major change in the legal status of marijuana, writes Brian Rudman.

A handful of Auckland pensioners have stopped developers in their tracks.

Seaplanes, America's Cup yacht charters and the Auckland Harbour Bridge SkyPath are among forecast visitor experiences tipped to boost the city's tourism income.

An Auckland-wide surveillance network of CCTV cameras is being stitched together as the forerunner of a national system which could include facial recognition technology.

Last year's defeated Auckland mayoral candidate is not ruling out another tilt at the mayoral chains.

Mayor Len Brown and his council's supine surrender to the bully-boy tactics of the Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust has been embarrassing, writes Brian Rudman.

Eden Park comprises about $450 million in buildings and land and other assets and while it is run by a trust it is also a business, writes Eden Park CEO David Kennedy. Like all businesses we need to plan ahead.

Cyclists say major urban routes around Auckland should be the focus for the council to improve its "dangerous and inadequate" cycling infrastructure.

Finance Minister Bill English has paid tribute to frontline public servants for helping to get the Govt books back in surplus for the first time in six years.

The investigator probing Auckland Mayor Len Brown's tryst with his mistress in the council's Ngati Whatua room was concerned the security guard who'd walked in on the lovers was muzzled.

Ratepayers face a legacy of debt as council borrowing soars to replace creaking assets and cater for growth, while keeping rates down.

If the hike in your rates bill seems less of a leap this year, enjoy it while you can.

Two Dunedin gangs - once at war - have come together to ask Dunedin's council to give them a contract mowing the city's grass.

Mystery businessmen want to replace the Cloud with commercial buildings. In exchange they'd upgrade the ferry terminal and transform the harbourfront 'pigsty'.

Sometimes, good fortune arrives disguised as disaster. That's what happened on Karangahape Rd in central Auckland.

Speed controls on Auckland's new electric trains are overriding their drivers to make them slower than the diesel clunkers they are replacing for $520 million.

Sitting in the plush boardroom of her 14th floor office in the heart of Auckland's CBD, Mai Chen is talking up Auckland.

A large chunk of residential land for sale will enable the building of hundreds of new homes as the Auckland Council tries to solve the city's housing crisis.

Auckland house values have risen up to 51.9 per cent in the past three years, which will impact on rates bills next year.

Stephen Town, the new chief executive of Auckland Council, says the Len Brown sex scandal is not an appropriate subject for him to discuss with a newspaper.

Editorial: Inevitably, there will be opposition to the demolition of Auckland's Civic Building. Some see the Aotea Square structure as one of the country's finest modernist buildings.

Sports clubs are counting down the days to the opening of new artificial fields on the North Shore.

A new Upper Harbour electorate has been confirmed for Auckland, as well as other major boundary changes in both Auckland and Christchurch.

Rates relief has been suggested as one way of compensating central Auckland businesses for disruption from construction of a $2.86 billion underground railway.

The Cornwall Park Trust Board has proposed a new "modern lease" to resolve long-running dissatisfaction from Greenlane and One Tree Hill residents.

The health of Auckland's harbours and streams is continuing to deteriorate under a mostly 1950s approach to stormwater, says a report obtained by the Herald.

Place your bets - celebrities and politicians are among the likeliest to take the Auckland mayoral chains from Len Brown next time around.

Residents are battling a plan for a $2 million artificial sports field in their Auckland suburban park, saying it will spoil its looks.

A development plan for Queens Wharf has been approved by Waterfront Auckland, but must go through a new bureaucratic hoop before being opened for public consultation.