The Latest Breaking News from Auckland

New Prime Minister Chris Hipkins followed up an announcement of new cost of living measures on Wednesday with a visit to a North Shore Marae

The worst of the forecast rain moved away from New Zealand's flood-ravaged biggest city on Wednesday after inflicting what the finance minister described as probably the "biggest non-earthquake event" in the country's history.

With a cabinet reshuffle just a day after two polls showing Labour ahead again – in which he promoted more Māori MPs to the front bench, created a new Minister for Auckland portfolio and drew a line under the previous administration by demoting several of Jacinda Ardern’s senior ministers –…

The Detail is on the ground in west Auckland, surveying the damage from last week's record-breaking rainfall.

Wayne Brown’s draft Auckland budget 2023 proposes stopping or reducing funding to the city’s 32 CAB offices. Nearly 1000 volunteers are preparing for a fight.

While Watercare says it will soon have the wastewater system back in working order, urban beaches are likely to be a no-go for days to come

Auckland is preparing for another round of flooding while rain batters northern New Zealand’s Northland region, which declared an emergency Tuesday afternoon in anticipation of the deluge

Things are acutely uncomfortable for Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown right now, but can he recover to save his mayoralty?

The clean-up from Auckland’s devastating floods last week is just beginning but insurance companies will need to start thinking about what the record-breaking weather event will mean for future coverage.

‘Some might think the worst is behind us, but it isn’t,’ warns mayor

The epic deluge and subsequent flooding across Auckland broke just about every record in the book. Newsroom has pulled the data together to show just how unprecedented this storm was.