The Government has been accused of being a Christmas Scrooge and increasing petrol prices in order to protect its promise to get back into surplus in 2014-15.

The first drink-drivers sentenced under new legislation will be eligible to install an alcohol interlock system for their vehicles from today.

It's not often that drivers of highly modified drift machines get to slide their cars around on central city streets - but last weekend it happened, without one ticket being written.

Red Bull's Kiwi-born Drift Shifters event, which took place right in the Auckland CBD last weekend was so good it's now going global.

Not even a $2.86 billion rail tunnel will stop morning traffic in downtown Auckland from grinding down to half its current speed within a decade, a study says.

Wanganui racer Mick Paul is aiming to realise the dream of a late Christchurch aircraft engineer to break Burt Munro's land speed record.