Stories by Todd Niall

A new poll shows Phil Goff is strengthening his position in the race for the Auckland mayoralty, with 38 percent support.

Auckland's mayoral contest goes before its biggest audience tomorrow with RNZ's live debate featuring four candidates. Video

Auckland mayoral candidate Vic Crone has pledged get the cross-harbour tunnel built a decade earlier than planned, just days after refusing to commit to it.

There will be no apology for an Auckland mayoral candidate who was forced to remove advertising under an Auckland Transport bylaw, which the agency now admits needs changing.

Auckland Council is for the first time considering changes to its political structure.

An Auckland Council agency has admitted its bylaw on local body election signs limits freedom of expression and may breach the Bill of Rights.

Auckland Council has approved a deal for about 1500 affordable homes to be built on land it currently owns.

Postal voting is hampering the Auckland Council's bid to lift voter turnout in October's local body elections, it claims.

Analysis - If completing Auckland's Unitary Plan was a marathon, delivering it may become an ultra-distance event without end, writes Todd Niall.

The country's biggest town planning exercise is now complete, with councillors signing off the Auckland Unitary Plan.

Auckland Future is taking legal moves today to have two election candidates reinstated after paperwork blunders.

Analysis - The moment Auckland's deputy mayor broke ranks with Len Brown was the most electrifying moment in Auckland Council's history, writes Todd Niall.

A nomination blunder in Auckland has pitted two candidates from the same party against each other in the race for a seat on the council.

The Auckland Council, which is debating the city's development plan, has rejected the idea of an affordable home quota for larger developments.

Members of Auckland's Independent Māori Statutory Board will not be included in the debate over the city's Unitary Plan, in a surprise decision.

Political battle lines have been drawn by a report advising Auckland councillors to reject parts of the re-written Unitary Plan.

Analysis - Auckland's leading mayoral contenders may have locked themselves into a game of fiscal-policy-embarrassment Russian roulette, writes Todd Niall.

Auckland mayoral candidate Phil Goff pledges to keep rate rises at an average 2.5 percent.

Analysis - Saying most Unitary Plan homes would cost more than $800,000 makes a good headline, but is just one outcome of computer modelling, writes RNZ's Todd Niall.

Auckland motorists are open to paying charges to use roads, but few would give up using their cars, a survey shows.

A wide-ranging coalition of businesses, social housing providers and other groups has united to push for the implementation of Auckland's Unitary Plan.

Analysis - As final sign-off of Auckland's Unitary Plan looms, a new set of figures show its bold aims of higher density and greater affordability are going to take longer than thought to deliver.

Several councillors have unsuccessfully tried to exclude Māori representatives from the final debates on the Auckland Unitary Plan.

Analysis - The pumped-up Unitary Plan for Auckland has dumped a saucepan of political hot potatoes into the hands of the city's councillors, writes Todd Niall.

A revised version of Auckland's Unitary Plan means much more of the city will be zoned for higher density housing than previously proposed. Video