The Latest Breaking News from Council

The Central Highlands Regional Council has expressed its sympathies for the family of one of its staff members who died in a workplace incident in the Arcadia Valley on Monday.

Auckland Council has consented yet another helipad on Waiheke Island. That’s more than 60 on an island less than 20km long. Kim Whitaker of Quiet Sky Waiheke asks how has council got it so wrong?

There's a fight on to make the woodland, which goes by various names, Manchester's next park

Views ranged from ‘thrilled’ to ‘disappointed’ in this polarised area

Council says that "on balance, it is considered that there are exceptional circumstances that decisively outweigh the loss of the open space"

Concerns were expressed by a councillor that rising house prices could push people out of the area

Concerns raised about a 'Keep Clear' message near the Saintfield Road homes

Parents and school managements are at loggerheads over concerns over decisions being taken for the future of Kinross High School with the parent body accusing the faculty of being unwilling to "engage meaningfully" with it to effect real change.

It wasn't that long ago that Philadelphia City Council members, under pressure from racial-justice protesters, voted to cancel a proposed $19 million increase in funding to the police and move millions more to another department.

PHILADELPHIA — Three years ago, then-City Councilmember Cherelle Parker drafted a resolution asking voters to ban illegal use of the policing tactic known as stop-and-frisk, a largely ceremonial gesture she marked by issuing a news release saying there was “no correlation between the elimination of stops and frisks and an…

The real living wage is the only wage rate calculated based on the true cost of living, whereas the national living wage is a percentage of average earnings.