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Is Auckland's 7.9% proposed rates hike enough? Council staff grilled about fuel crisis
Auckland Councillors will vote today on Mayor Brown’s record proposed rates rise.
'Significant number' of councillors back last-minute amendment to cut 7.9% rates rise
A proposal has been backed by several councillors to wind back the rates hike to 5.9%.
Viv Beck 'delighted' with legal win over Heart of the City amid call for board to resign
The HOTC board must reinstate Beck as CEO after she was suspended in late March.
Heart of the City boss Viv Beck wins legal battle over suspension
The HOTC board must reinstate Beck as CEO on an interim basis and enter mediation.
'Totally furious': Councillors hit out at CRL overspend claim by ex-CEO 'paid $940k a year'
The price of the $5.5b rail link could have been halved, its former CEO has claimed.
'A witch hunt': Wealthy landlords 'mobilise' against Heart of the City board
Several of the landlords and business owners have ties to suspended CEO Viv Beck.
'I was mortified': Tech CEO the latest woman to accuse Sir Rod Drury of inappropriate behaviour
Jenene Crossan has questioned the terms of reference for Xero's external investigation.
Suspended Heart of the City CEO allegedly tried to influence political oversight
'It’s certainly not the place of the business association to choose who oversees it.'
'Doom spiral': Auckland's poorest now can't afford petrol to pick up food parcels
Vinnies Tāmaki Makaurau saw 87 families unable to pick up food parcels in March.
Man burned down historic church 'to teach God a lesson', was visited by police four times in prior month
Sinele Katoa was an undiagnosed schizophrenic who believed God was humiliating his father.
Wayne Brown to undergo surgery after injuring hip 'chasing down a cheeky drop shot' in tennis
The Auckland mayor said he’d be attending meetings remotely online while he recovers.
Victim's dad 'shattered' and angry as new details emerge from Waitārere Beach shootings
Laurie Johnston can't fathom how his daughter and grandsons were shot by his son-in-law.
Police believed Waitārere Beach dad killed by gunshot, but autopsy reveals other cause
Ben Timmins, 60, died at a property where his wife and her two sons were shot.
Tauranga council meets with consulting firm offering 'war room experience' to advise on fatal slips
NXUS said it's important to have an 'external eye' in disaster responses.
'Absolutely devastated': Police name grandmother and grandson killed in Pāpāmoa landslide
The landslide destroyed a home on Welcome Bay Rd where three generations lived.
New footage reveals extent of destruction in Pāpāmoa landslide that killed two
Several homes were taken out in the slip, with rubble filling them below mangled roofs.
'We have to start fresh': Young family living in caravan after slip destroys everything they own
The couple and their toddler barely escaped a slip that destroyed their Pāpāmoa home.
Couple's new build sits precariously above Tauranga's slip - but they still plan to move in
The Andrews had demolished their old family home and constructed a new one.
Watch: ‘A lamental cry’ - Iwi say father holding vigil at Mt Maunganui slip has lost two children
"I met one parent, he was from Italy. He knows two of his children are still in there."
'Our house and our family lost': Three generations lived in home where grandmother, grandson killed by slip
A neighbour of the family described the family as 'amazing people'.
'There's a nuance to Ben': Sister defends long court history of man killed at Waitārere Beach
Ben Timmins had drugs and firearms convictions and several employment disputes.
Young actor from Shortland Street breaks man’s eye socket in brutal assault, flees in luxury SUV
Brooklyn Nathan's attack left a man needing surgery and with debilitating double vision.
A $40 parking fine beside a $30m renovation - St James Theatre owner in court over ‘ludicrous’ AT stance
Steve Bielby has taken AT to court over parking fines outside his landmark theatre.
'Hottest trophy site in Ponsonby': Top emergency housing provider sells $6m in motels as Govt grants dip
The 17-bedroom property valued at $4m is the second an Auckland couple have sold in 2025.
‘That’s your job, mate’: Mayor Brown welcomes possible move by PM to ban homeless from CBD
Brown says the council has done all it can to remove rough sleepers from the city centre.
'Haunt me for the rest of my life': Gunman jailed for road rage shooting of 15yo girl
Alfred Latu held a Glock pistol out the driver’s side window and fired.
Public sex, ‘meth-fuelled rage’: Bosses on 'harrowing' Akl CBD, amid harsh reader poll
A poll of Herald readers found an overwhelming majority regard the CBD as anti-social.
Election highs and lows: Redemption for NZ’s youngest mayor, Champagne lady falls flat
Saturday's results offered up some exceptional and unconventional races.
Gore’s youngest ever mayor re-elected after term of ‘horrible’ internal conflicts, no confidence vote
Ben Bell made history as the district’s youngest-ever mayor in 2022, but things soured.
'Frightening’: Businesses slate CBD as lawless, unclean, hit out at drug use & begging in scathing survey
A survey of 102 Auckland businesses found the city characterised by 'neglect and disorder'
‘Oh, they were horrible’: Marokopa locals claim police 'harassment’ in Tom Phillips search
Tentative support for the slain fugitive father remains in pockets of the Waikato town.