Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Wayne Brown

Councillors navigate Auckland’s watershed moment

Councillors officially met for the first time since the rains fell on Thursday afternoon to lay out all of the options local government has to lean on.

Newsroom.co.nz

Desley the deputy steps into the breach

The country's seen a bit of Desley Simpson over the past fortnight, stepping up to communicate with the public over Auckland's historic floods. But who is this savvy political operator?

Newsroom.co.nz

Cyclone Gabrielle: Auckland prepares for New Zealand’s ‘most serious storm this century’

Residents asked to check with their neighbours and family who might need help to prepare for the storm

The Independent UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Wayne Brown: the evolution of an apology

For Auckland's Mayor, sorry seems to be the hardest word to say.

Newsroom.co.nz

Yesterdaze: Wayne's reign not right as rain

Some are speculating whether the Auckland Mayor's leadership is circling the drain. James Elliott hopes they're right.

Newsroom.co.nz

Christopher Luxon absent as Chris Hipkins steps into the floodlights

Unless a policy reset deals decisively with the cost of living, Three Waters, the public health system, and law and order, Chris Hipkins’ Cabinet reshuffle will quickly be seen as merely a rearrangement of the deckchairs, writes Peter Dunne

Newsroom.co.nz

Comms crucial, not optional, in an emergency

Wayne Brown's repeated defences of the radio silence from council offices on Friday night miss the point that communications is a fundamental part of an emergency response.

Newsroom.co.nz

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Auckland floods: city begins clean-up after ‘biggest climate event’ in New Zealand’s history

As rain and flooding eases, attention turns to assessing the scale of the damage after four people were killed by unprecedented extreme weather

The Guardian - AU

Citizens Advice Bureau faces closure in Akld Ccl budget cuts

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.

Newsroom.co.nz

A self-destructing mayoralty

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

Newsroom.co.nz

Auckland braced for dangerous rainfall days after deadly flood

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

The Independent UK

New Zealand city to get more dangerous rainfall after flood

A dangerous amount of rain is forecast for New Zealand's most populous city four days after Auckland had its wettest day on record in a storm that claimed four lives

The Independent UK

Severe weather continues in North Island: What you need to know

Landslips, road closures, homes and businesses flooded and more heavy rain on the way. Here is what you need to know as the severe weather continues.

Newsroom.co.nz

Three dead after torrential rain, flash floods inundate Auckland

Torrential rains that battered parts of Auckland marked the wettest day ever recorded in the region.

Al Jazeera

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Al Jazeera

State of emergency declared in Auckland after widespread flooding

Main roads were also blocked by the floods, causing long traffic queues on highways.

Newsroom.co.nz

Achieving the gold standard of balance sheet separation

How could big councils like Auckland and Christchurch retain ownership of their waters assets, yet separate them from their balance sheets – under any reform model?

Newsroom.co.nz

Wayne goes collegial and works the weekend

Thanks and praise flow for the 'fixit' mayor from unlikely quarters as he passes his first big financial milestone with a budget approved for public feedback next year

Newsroom.co.nz

Auckland mayor aims for 7 percent rates increase

Wayne Brown's budget is looking to patch a $295m hole in the council's books caused by high interest rates, inflation and reduced income due to economic conditions

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Newsroom.co.nz

We deserve better than Auckland's art vandal

Wayne Brown's threat to the arts as a publicly-funded good flies in the face of wide research showing art makes the everyday struggles of urban living more bearable, writes Peter O'Connor.

Newsroom.co.nz

An Ode for .. Wayne Brown

Bard Billot on the barbarian Brown

Newsroom.co.nz

Business trepidation about $3 billion light rail levy

The Transport Minister is to advise Cabinet how to tax businesses and property owners' gains to help fund mass transit projects in our biggest cities.

Newsroom.co.nz

Auckland Council: What they've got to hide

Auckland councillors held an extraordinary meeting on Thursday to grapple with a $270m hole in the council budget – but almost all the detail and all the grappling was kept secret.

Newsroom.co.nz

'The real work starts today': Plugging Auckland Council’s leaky budget

New Auckland mayor Wayne Brown called a $270 million deficit in council budgets a “wake-up call” that suggested his term won’t be “business as usual”

Newsroom.co.nz

Wayne's first fix - a budget emergency

Mayor Wayne Brown and the new council get their first chance at 'fixing' Auckland when this week's first business meeting grapples with a $270m shortfall in next year's budget

Newsroom.co.nz

For want of a bus driver: tough times for Auckland Transport

Recent cuts to bus services due to a major skills shortage cast an unhealthy pall on a public transport system still trying to regain the patronage of pre-pandemic years

1 … 3 4 5 6

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Citizens Advice Bureau

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.