Labour-aligned mayors control the three major cities after a local government election that favoured incumbent candidates and produced few surprises.

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Any attempt by Auckland’s presumed new mayor Phil Goff to move imported cars from Auckland’s downtown wharves will result in a substantial revenue loss to the city to help offset rates, councillor Dick Quax says.

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An NBR investigation into the finances of New Zealand copier company Fuji Xerox has prompted a probe by the Serious Fraud Office.

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A jury has found that the onetime Conservative Party leader Colin Craig defamed Taxpayers Union founder Jordan Williams. The country has found out a lot more about Mr Craig’s style of office management and questionable poetic skills. So what was in the widely covered case for the media to discover?

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Long-serving Mount Roskill Labour MP Phil Goff is all but assured the win in Auckland’s mayoralty race, according to the most recent polling.

So what kind of mayor will the career politician who’s been accused of sleepwalking to victory really make?

A wide-ranging interview with NBR Radio’s Andrew Patterson.

Facebook’s launch of its new marketplace in New Zealand this week probably isn’t going to affect Trade Me too much but it shouldn’t be underestimated.

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As Phil Goff awaits his apparently inevitable anointment as Auckland’s new mayor, centre-right candidate Mark Thomas – who conceded the long-serving Labour MP had a lock on the election weeks ago – has delivered another broadside at his political rival.

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"A lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth is going on about the rise of the populists and the death of globalisation but everyone should just take a chill pill and calm down."

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"It’s not too early to congratulate Phil Goff on becoming Auckland’s mayor but his term already risks being a disaster."

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"The implementation of a nationwide network of electric vehicle charging points beyond CBD office blocks or suburban malls in our biggest cities has been hobbled by chicken-and-egg procrastination until now; what’s the point of installing a nationwide fast-charging network when not enough people own electric vehicles (EVs?"

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