Amelia Wade

Funeral directors are calling on the Government to give them clarity about when a funeral home can inter or scatter ashes, following concerns about Morrisons Funeral Directors' handling of ashes.

ACT has pitched a compromise to the visitor bed tax that would see funding returned to councils - which National now appears set to campaign on.

Every morning outside the Auckland City Mission, there's a crowd of people waiting for it to open so they can get a hot breakfast.

More than $100 million has now been spent on consultants for Auckland's next harbour crossing, without a decision yet made as to whether it will be a bridge or a tunnel.

Every morning outside the Auckland City Mission, there's a crowd of people waiting for it to open so they can get a hot breakfast.

ANALYSIS: $106 million is a lot to spend on a crossing that does not exist. It is more remarkable still to spend it and conclude that you are not yet ready to decide where to build one — or whether it's worth building at all.

Life's so damn busy. After a week of getting through work, the Sisyphean task of feeding yourself multiple times a day, drinking enough water and going to sleep, it's the weekend.

The historic city deal between Auckland Council and the Government is teetering on the verge of collapse as councillors speak out about Prime Minister Christopher Luxon's sudden move to dump his promise to explore a bed tax.

Auckland has no shortage of people arriving - they fly through its airport, enrol in its universities, invest in its companies and start businesses.

Auckland's mayor and its minister have faced off for the first time since the Government introduced a rates cap law and National pulled the rug out from under its promise to explore a bed tax