Auckland councillors have agreed to censure Mayor Len Brown after a five-hour meeting today to decide…

1. video Report released on Mayor's affair (4:13)

Auckland Mayor Len Brown is taking advice as he ponders the first draft of an Ernst & Young report. into any use of council…

1. Fran O'Sullivan: Review of Len Brown under watch (48 comments)

Ensuring Auckland copes with growth and has enough offices, apartments and shops is one of the biggest challenges the city…

1. First apartment block since GFC

When Jack Linklater retired 25 years ago, moving to Auckland seemed the obvious choice.

1. John Key: Kids of today offer bright future for NZ (104 comments)

Residents in the old Auckland City Council area appear to be taking greater responsibility for mowing…

1. Couple told to trim city's hedge

A council bylaw making the wearing of lifejackets compulsory on small boats is about the changing face of Auckland, says…

1. Lifejacket bylaw clears first hurdle

Seafarers of the world have found a warm welcome at the waterfront centre for more than a century.

1. Wynyard Quarter a car-free haven

Auckland Mayor Len Brown is pressing ahead with a living wage for council workers after promising voters two months ago…

1. Fran O'Sullivan: Closer eye needed on power of mayor (57 comments)

Tower cranes have once again begun to bristle on Auckland's skyline as the construction sector hits better times.

1. Giant crane in place for university build

The hard-up Super City stands to receive a windfall of about $100m from a planned $454m capital return…

1. Airport plan boost for market

Len Brown has written to the seven council-controlled organisations that together run the business side of the Super City…

1. Brian Rudman: Changing the world from your armchair (27 comments)

Olympian and Auckland councillor Dick Quax has revealed he has throat cancer and credits his wife Roxanne for having him…

Auckland councillor Cameron Brewer wants a council review into Len Brown's affair with Bevan Chuang widened to investigate…

1. Inquiry into mayor's affair drags on

Carpet manufacturer Godfrey Hirst has complained to the Auditor-General that a $960,000 contract was not put out to tender…

1. Godfrey Hirst appeals High Court ruling on warranties

Ports of Auckland has hired top lawyer Mai Chen to help it in a row with the Auckland Council over measures…

1. Tony Garnier: 2014 a pivotal year for Project Auckland

The future of a Victorian timber cottage used as a community church is uncertain after it was taken from its foundations…

1. Mayor's office confirms Hong Kong trip

A campaign to get New Zealanders to embrace their biggest city as a place worth visiting starts today under the slogan "The…

1. One council mooted for Northland

A financially troubled council body has splashed out about $41,500 on a party for 1700 staff and family at the Cloud.

1. Len Brown: Down to business (25 comments)

When the dust settles on his sex scandal, Auckland Mayor Len Brown has another delicate task ahead - setting a lower salary…

1. Poll backs no-mow policy

Auckland councillors and local board members have been given leather satchels to carry their council…

1. video Len Brown sworn in as Auckland Mayor (3:53)

Residential prospects should never have entered university-council deal for much-needed sporting facilities, writes Brian…

1. Brian Rudman: 500 homes? P-P-P-praise the lord (53 comments)

He may have failed to become Auckland's first Pasifika mayor, but now the Rev Uesifili Unasa has his sights set on furthering…

1. Inspiring young achievers

The week after New Year is a testing time for resolutions to correct a bad habit. But it is a good time to make one new…

1. How we're eating our way to early death

Spending on rail in Auckland has been compared to a "black hole of Calcutta" as right-leaning councillors take an increasingly…

1. Brian Rudman: Enough reports - get on with rail (117 comments)