Transport Minister Steven Joyce has given the go-ahead to a half-billion-dollar, 23km toll road east of Tauranga.

Freight matchmaking service is the sort of thing the internet might have been invented for.

The Green Party says Auckland's $2 billion Waterview connection won't solve the city's transport problems.

Two cars belonging to one person have made almost 700 trips on the Northern Gateway motorway without paying the $2-a-trip toll - and the owner now faces fines of more than $26,000 if the fees are not paid.

Elderly people are searching out petrol stations that will fill their tanks for them as health and safety rules take the service out of service stations.

Listening to an iPod and rolling a cigarette while driving are legal under NZ law, but authorities do not recommend them.

Up to 5000 trucks will be eligible to carry heavier loads on public highways from next month.

The days of rental car companies giving pamphlets to confused overseas visitors and crossing their fingers they'll cope with NZ's oddball right-hand rule look set to be over.

New Zealand's unique right-hand rule, a relic of an old Melbourne tram system and cause of 2560 crashes a year, is set to be scrapped.

Reducing the current legal blood alcohol limit will hurt the law-abiding majority without tackling repeat offenders, say lawyers.

The Govt's failure to immediately commit to lowering blood alcohol limits for adult drivers is "just not good enough", say advocacy organisations.

An investigation into vehicle power restrictions is something that this country has been crying out for.

A second Auckland harbour crossing and a lack of trains are two gaps identified in an infrastructure stocktake, Bill English said today.

A 20-year-old woman who ran over and injured four cyclists on the Auckland waterfront on her way to a university exam is sentenced in the Auckland District Court.