Motor industry lobbyists say lives and jobs will be lost as a result of changes to the warrant-of-fitness system that will see six-monthly checks become annual inspections for cars registered after 2000.

Auckland Transport has quietly dropped a controversial feature of its $2.86 billion underground rail project.

New Zealanders living in the country's largest cities are paying up to $32 more for casual private parking than those in smaller towns.

No one seems to doubt Auckland will need another harbour crossing to the North Shore within a generation.

The number of people dobbing in dodgy drivers has decreased since cellphone use while driving was banned three years ago.

North Shore leaders will this year ramp up calls for a new Waitemata Harbour traffic crossing, even though the Transport Agency does not believe one will be needed before 2030.

A study for Auckland Transport has calculated the "social cost" of cycle crashes for the region's biking routes.

Dozens of drivers have been ticketed by police after they were snapped on the wrong side of the road on busy South Island tourist route the Devil's Staircase near Queenstown.

Two clip-on lanes of the Auckland Harbour Bridge have reopened following the completion of maintenance work that had closed them since Boxing Day.

Roads up and down the country are moving relatively smoothly as holidaymakers head home following the Christmas and New Year break.

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.

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.