Tag: Mayors
Auckland city budget finally approved: Councillor likens debate to ‘eating rats’
By Finn Blackwell, RNZ News reporter and Jordan Dunn, RNZ intern
Auckland councillors crossed swords, singling out one another and raising impassioned concerns on debt...
Auckland deputy mayor talks up media role in disasters in wake...
RNZ News
Auckland mayor Wayne Brown is under fire for calling New Zealand journalists "drongos", blaming them for having to cancel a round of tennis...
Nick Rockel: When the public’s important at election time, but not...
COMMENTARY: By Nick Rockel in Tāmaki Makaurau
The weather is all over the show, the storm water system clearly hopelessly inadequate, the house prices are...
Win for diversity in Wellington, defeat in Auckland as NZ votes...
RNZ News
Wellington's Tory Whanau has convincingly won the mayoralty race for Te Whanganui-a-Tara in a triumph for diversity in Aotearoa New Zealand's local government...
Three killed, including former mayor, in Manila university campus shooting
By Jairo Bolledo in Manila
A day before the first State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr in Quezon City,...
NZ local government: ‘We’re ready for change – it’s about youth...
By Moana Ellis, Local Democracy Reporter
A district mayor says the Aotearoa New Zealand local government sector is ready to launch into a future that...
Gisborne district councillor hits out over lack of Māori leadership
By Matthew Rosenberg in Gisborne
A Gisborne councillor has called into question the mayor’s ability to lead the region forward, saying her background makes it...
‘We’ve had enough’ call to NZ capital protesters from city ‘who’s...
RNZ News
Almost 30 community leaders of New Zealand's capital Wellington have banded together to urge an immediate end of the illegal protest activities at...
