The Latest Breaking News from Auckland Council

The Commerce Commission has persuaded phone company 2degrees to cut its credit card surcharge, but its competitor One NZ is refusing to budge. Jonathan Milne reports.

Lack of productivity was an issue in the past, but Ports of Auckland expects to continue to exceed its forecasts.

Five years ago the government announced its ‘broader outcomes’ procurement strategy as a way of adding social, economic, environmental and cultural goals into the criteria guiding the billions of dollars of taxpayer money it spends on stuff each year. So Nikki Mandow was surprised this week to get a press release…

Auckland Council is looking at changes to the unitary plan to reduce the impact of future weather events

Councillors have hit back at a surprise directive by central Government for Kāinga Ora to look at building 66,000 homes along Auckland’s forthcoming light rail corridor.

What was supposed to be a mere procedural step became a rehashing of still raw, difficult decisions made in council chambers earlier this month 

Auckland’s transport agency are crying out for more certainty in funding models as an expanding city and asset base ensure that costs are only on the way up.

Twelve locations across Auckland have been identified for the development of long parks to accommodate future flood waters

Our local councils take too long to make what are often average decisions, and the public has fallen out of trust with the system, writes Mark Thomas