Who is your driver tonight? That's the question police want all New Year partygoers to consider - before the celebrations begin.

Three men have been taken to hospital after a car rolled into the sea in Nelson.

We demand and expect our transport systems to to get us where we want, when we want to be there, and as fast as possible. We are, however, human beings.

Removing roadblocks to allow for decisive action on Auckland's critically important economic growth agenda is emerging as the top issue in early 2013.

Staff at TV3 are in grief over the loss of a popular colleague and young mother, who was killed in a car crash that also seriously injured her two young daughters.

If the world's fastest mammal can't be bothered going fast over the Christmas holidays then neither should you. That's the message from police and keepers at Canterbury's Orana Wildlife Park.

A week-long police crackdown on cellphone driving offences has seen a surge in the issuing of tickets. Police dished out 790 tickets nationally during the seven-day blitz last month, pushing the November total to 1736. October's total was 1156.

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.

Nabbing speeding drivers in Northland used to be a rather covert affair, but in a drive to make the region's roads safer a speed camera van is no longer incognito.

A new motorway is being constructed near Hamilton, coming into the city from the north; many kilometres are near completion.

A $140 million four-lane motorway officially opened in Christchurch today was a "remarkable achievement" given the city's earthquake damage and disruption, Transport Minister Gerry Brownlee said.

The Transport Minister and the mayor of Auckland have clashed over a report recommending plans for the city's transport network.

Auckland transport politicians are backing a proposal to recreate beaches lost to North Shore's Shoal Bay when the harbour bridge was built in the 1950s.

Greg Reynolds has seen too many young, inexperienced drivers, older drivers and those who should know better crash outside his business.

With the conversion to electric trains and wires out west going to Swanson is Waitakere to lose its rail service or are there plans to extend the electrification?

Police are shocked at the high numbers of drivers dividing their attention between cellphones and the road, three years after calling or texting at the wheel was banned.

The grave of a leading New Zealand poet is at risk from a highway.

A central Auckland bridge is netting $150,000 in traffic fines from confused motorists every month.

What hope for the CBD in 30 years when Auckland is home to another million residents and still tunnel-less? Brian Rudman on Auckland transport.

Rush-hour traffic in central Auckland will slow to walking pace in 10 years if the central city rail tunnel isn't built, a confidential report warns.