Auckland will be expected to accommodate a million extra residents over the next 30 years, with few plans for new schools, hospitals, courts and prisons. Big super-schools and robocops could provide an answer.

Already-full schools face being made to cram in more students as the Government struggles to cope with the growth in Auckland's population.

Hurrah for the news that more and more New Zealanders are cutting short their OE to return to the (currently brown) grass of home, writes Dita De Boni.

Auckland's universities are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on new buildings, transforming not only their campuses but the shape of the city they serve.

Asians are dominating in visitor and international student numbers and in most family-migration categories to New Zealand.

Aucklanders have never embraced the kind of concentrated living arrangements envisioned in the Unitary Plan, writes Dick Quax.

It is telling that the increase in immigrants projected in the Auckland Council's 30-year plan has attracted very little comment. Until now, that is.

The folks in rural Rodney never were too keen on being in the Super City.

Towns in New Zealand's regional areas should be made more enticing to slow the mammoth population growth expected in Auckland in the next decade, a sociologist says.

New Zealand's population growth is expected to slow over the next 10 years and at the same time an increasing number of Kiwis are leaving to live overseas.

A Herald editorial has made a case for Labour's new housing policy and the intensification of terraced houses and apartment units in Auckland it will lead to.

Join us at noon today for a live chat with Geoff Cooper, economist for Auckland City.

Auckland's critical housing shortage worsened again last year - but the gap between population growth and house-building may be closing at last.

Waikato town planners are bracing for an overflow of Aucklanders from the Super City as it seeks to find living space for its booming population.

Just eight people have had their refugee status revoked after a long-running saga involving a global people-smuggling ring.

Three to four people will arrive in Auckland every hour, based on the next 30 years' population projections.

Overweight people have surprisingly beaten out your normal Joe Average on the mortality scale, a statistical survey of medical studies has shown.

Periodically, calls are made for a rapid expansion of the population of New Zealand - 15 million has been identified as a desirable target.

Northland has the highest rates of rheumatic fever in the country and last week visiting US expert Dr Stanford Shulman met health professionals to help with solutions.