Forecast sunshine for the upper North Island today is expected to dry up a saturated country after heavy downpours cut power to hundreds of homes and flooded buildings.

The city council in their wisdom have just completed building a very substantial footpath outside 314 Redoubt Rd which is about 20m long and goes nowhere.

Beverley Potts feared the worst for her little grand-daughter while waiting in agony to be cut free of her wrecked car at a notorious South Auckland crossroad.

An alleged drink driver has struck and injured two young girls while reversing from a driveway in the Bay of Plenty.

Speed and alcohol are not thought to have been factors in a horror accident in which a Waikato jogger was crushed to death by an out-of-control 4WD, police say.

Government Minister Peter Dunne has gone on the warpath over hidden speed cameras - which he claims are a money gathering rort.

Martin Johnston straps a camera to his helmet to compile a video diary of the obstacles cyclists face while Mathew Dearnaley asks officials what they plan to do about them.

The New Zealand Transport Agency plans to phase in a 12-month warrant of fitness from October, nine months earlier than originally planned.

What does the yellow cross-hatching signify at the intersection of Mt Eden, Oaklands and Stokes Rds?

A teenage boy has been hospitalised with serious injuries after a hit and run in Auckland this evening.

The blood-alcohol limit for drivers should be lowered to prevent more unnecessary road deaths, says one of New Zealand's most experienced police officers.

Maori and Pacific Island children are more likely to be injured in a crash on Auckland roads than anyone else, research reveals.

Could you clarify the parking situation whereby one has to drive into an angle park or parking space at right angles to the kerb on a public road.

You have to hand it to the National Road Safety Committee. These public servants don't conceal their view that the Cabinet needs to lower blood-alcohol limits for drivers.

A cyclist hit and killed by a car in east Christchurch yesterday has been named by police.

A male cyclist is in critical condition after being hit by a car in Christchurch this afternoon.

Emergency services say it is a miracle that a Napier man walked away with minor injuries from a serious truck crash near Gisborne yesterday.

A driver is trapped after a head-on collision on Tamaki Drive in Auckland this evening. Police and emergency services are at the scene and traffic is being diverted.

The sister of a woman killed in a cycling accident has made an emotional plea at her funeral for motorists to share the road with cyclists.

A cyclist has been struck and killed by a truck near Taupo.

Firefighters had to pull a chunk of metal wedged into a man's leg in order to remove him from a wrecked campervan north of Auckland yesterday.

An 18-year-old man is in Christchurch Hospital after being hit by a truck in Kaikoura this morning.