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How will Auckland cope with growth?
Ensuring Auckland copes with growth and has enough offices, apartments and shops is one of the biggest challenges the city…
The faces of Auckland
When Jack Linklater retired 25 years ago, moving to Auckland seemed the obvious choice.
Long road to mow
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Lifejacket law to protect 'new Kiwis'
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Peter Calder: Mission incredible - 110 years of care
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Rates to rise to pay for living wage
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Cranes set to dominate skyline
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Super City
Super City lands airport windfall
The hard-up Super City stands to receive a windfall of about $100m from a planned $454m capital return…
Brian Rudman: Team talk good for ratepayers
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Olympian battling throat cancer
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Call for mayor's HK trip to be reviewed
Auckland councillor Cameron Brewer wants a council review into Len Brown's affair with Bevan Chuang widened to investigate…
Carpet firm's complaint over $960k contract
Carpet manufacturer Godfrey Hirst has complained to the Auditor-General that a $960,000 contract was…
Port calls in legal heavyweight
Ports of Auckland has hired top lawyer Mai Chen to help it in a row with the Auckland Council over measures to reclaim more…
Council stops cottage move
The future of a Victorian timber cottage used as a community church is uncertain after it was taken from its foundations…
Showtime - and it's cheap
A campaign to get New Zealanders to embrace their biggest city as a place worth visiting starts today under the slogan "The…
$40k council do draws flak
A financially troubled council body has splashed out about $41,500 on a party for 1700 staff and family at the Cloud.
Tight belt starts at city's top
When the dust settles on his sex scandal, Auckland Mayor Len Brown has another delicate task ahead -…
$23,000 for council satchels
Auckland councillors and local board members have been given leather satchels to carry their council documents, at a cost…
Len just wants to get on with the job
Len Brown says the career of a mayor ebbs and flows, and the wave of negative publicity the swamped him since news of his…
Mayoress fronts husband's swearing in
Len Brown spoke of the love and support of his wife Shan Inglis after being sworn in as Mayor of Auckland last night, but…
Brian Rudman: You can wire 'em up ... but they still won't vote
Election Services already uses online voting with postal voting for some of the energy trusts and has found no noticeable…
'I'm in a bit of hot water'
Len Brown has made his first post-affair public appearance today, and says it will take a while to "reacclimatise''…
Brown ditches first post-affair event
Auckland Mayor Len Brown has pulled out of his first, post-affair public engagement at Three Kings Primary School this morning…
Brown inquiry to look at job reference
An Auckland Council inquiry into mayor Len Brown's extra-marital spending is being widened to look at a reference the mayor…
Herald on Sunday editorial: Len Brown can't just walk away
When the pressure became too much for failed mayoral candidate John Palino on Friday morning, he and his fiancee headed…
Herald on Sunday editorial: Brown has questions to answer
What agony this week must have been for the Mayor of Auckland, his wife and family. Their public ordeal will be less important…
Chuang's record known to C&R;
Super City Archives
Bevan Chuang disclosed her criminal conviction to the political ticket that selected her as an election…
Brian Rudman on Auckland
Brian Rudman: Like it or not, Brown can't be fired
Like the colourful Mayor Rob Ford of Toronto, Mr Brown, if he so desires, can sit it out until hell freezes over, writes…
Politics
Crown signs historic Treaty settlement
The Crown has signed a multi-million dollar settlement for all outstanding historical Treaty claims with Bay of Plenty iwi…
Chorus funding to be improved
Chorus could cut its funding shortfall for the ultra-fast broadband project from $1 billion to $200-250 million.
Auckland: Tale of a SuperCity
Council duo attack rail link spend
Spending on rail in Auckland has been compared to a "black hole of Calcutta" as right-leaning councillors take an increasingly…
Local Government
Len Brown: I'm staying
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Len Brown says he is no lame-duck mayor after a damning report found he failed to declare more than…
National
Heavy downpours for North Island
Heavy heat showers are forming around South Auckland and Waikato and thunderstorms and torrential downpours are hitting…
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