An exciting programme of live performance art and moving images will take over Auckland's city centre from 9 to 17 April.

A draft concept design for shared space in Darby Street in the CBD is available for public consultation until 5 April.

Auckland, March 17 NZPA - A new credit card pay system will be installed at all four Auckland City Council carparks after fraudsters skimmed details thousands of credit card holders last year.

Westpac Bank alerted the council after noticing irregular transactions at the carparks.

City Vision-Labour Councillors congratulate the Auckland City Council and its Executive Officer team for winning a Roger Award for contracting out Waiheke Island waste services from a local community company to transnational waste giant, Transpacific Industries (TPI).

Auckland City Council is encouraging Metrowater to consider returning to its customers a significant portion of its projected end of year surplus for the 2009/10 financial year.

Council's Finance and Strategy Committee this morning received Metrowater's half yearly financial result.

Following the discovery of credit card fraud linked to cards used at the Downtown car park last year, Auckland City Council commissioned an independent assessment of the credit card operations systems in all our car parks.

The Environmental Defence Society says that there's "no point" in opening parts of Great Barrier Island to mining as part of the government's review of Schedule 4 of the Crown Minerals Act.

The number of persistent noise nuisance offenders in the city is down significantly, due to initiatives by Auckland City Council's noise control service.

A political stitch-up seems to have been negotiated which has seen the unfortunate politicisation of Auckland's popular Pasifika Festival, Labour List MP Carmel Sepuloni said today.

Would the Auckland City Council idly stand by if our memorials to victims of the Great War and Second World War were routinely urinated upon, vomited on, and used as temporary places of residence, questions the National Council of Women of New Zealand (NCWNZ).