SPCA launched its annual appeal today with two of its world-famous driving dogs 'digging deep' for bags of money on Auckland's Kohimarama Beach.

Targa New Zealand's four days of tarmac racing includes over 1500km of touring stages, interspersed with 650km of closed special stages in the central North Island. Photos courtesy of Groundsky Photography.

Sebastian Vettel, one of today’s best Formula 1 pilots, has always been passionate about motorcycles. He hid it, most of the time. He didn’t get to act on it as much as he’d have liked. But it’s been ever present. So it was obvious how to give this four-time world champion a treat. Bathed in sunshine, he made his appearance on a beautiful alpine road to Furkajoch in Vorarlberg, Austria. Hand-picked museum motorcycles with elegant names like “Brough Superior” and “Scott Flying Squirrel” – none younger than 70 years and all with an antique charm – were at site. Sebastian Vettel’s exciting journey on two wheels: the whole story can be read in the November issue of The Red Bulletin, due out in New Zealand in November 5. Copyright Text: The Red Bulletin

Kawasaki hosted the world's top moto journalists to a day of riding the new 2013 Ninja ZX-6R on the challenging and fun Thunderhill Raceway Park, followed by a day of twisties near Lake Oroville, California. Source: Kawasaki, YouTube

A bus driver has been stood down amid reports he did two U-turns on a busy motorway in Wellington.