Major traffic delays are expected in the central North Island after the closure of two main traffic routes.

Working nine to five may have been the standard a few decades ago - and the subject of a popular Dolly Parton ditty - but 21st century employees are increasingly able to negotiate flexibility in their daily routine.

Emergency services were called to the crash but were unable to save the man who died at the scene shortly afterwards.

Morning commuters faced motorway mayhem in Auckland after a series of breakdowns and accidents.

Central Dunedin residents have told how they were woken by a sickening T-bone crash in which a teenager was killed early this morning.

A diesel spill stretching for about 15km on a Northland road has been mopped up this morning.

Writer ridiculed for comparing breath test by New Zealand police to race case in US says she was just starting a conversation about civil liberties.

Huffington Post writer under fire for comparing being pulled over by cops in Timaru for speeding to death of black driver in Texas.

A motorcycle and car have collided on the Northern Motorway this morning, slowing down the commute for city-bound drivers.

A truck, bus and a number of cars have collided at a busy intersection in Central Auckland.

A breakdown is causing major delays on Auckland’s city-bound Northwestern Motorway.

A male motorcyclist who crashed head-on into a truck this morning became separated from his bike on impact before it burst into flames.

Four people were injured – one seriously – when two cars collided north of Auckland today.

A Waikato rural policing review has had to consider how to deal with the influx of Aucklanders moving to the region.

State Highway 16 was shut to traffic in both directions between Bradly Rd and Wharepapa Rd, Helensville, after the crash about 7.30am.

The parents of an Auckland teen battling to prove she’s been mistakenly made to pay a police ticket have been inundated with support.

One person is dead following a crash involving a single vehicle in Otago this morning.

A concrete mixer has left a 1km long trail of wet concrete on a motorway north of Auckland this afternoon.

A driver had to escape from a submerged car after it went off the road and into the Otago Harbour this morning.

One person has been killed in a serious crash in Canterbury this afternoon.

A person has been killed in a car crash in Huntly tonight.

A truck driver has died after the vehicle crashed into a tree in Auckland today.

Three men have been charged over the death of a woman who got out of her car to move metal barriers blocking a state highway.

Yesterday's destructive waves are likely to become a more common occurrence, says a councillor from the worst-hit parts of Wellington.

A car bursts into flames near the Birkenhead off-ramp of the Auckland Harbour Bridge yesterday moments after the driver jumped out.

Massive waves caused havoc on Wellington's south coast, sending boulders onto roads, despite fine and sunny weather in the region today.

A car that caught fire on State Highway 1 today, causing traffic chaos over the Auckland Harbour Bridge, may have suffered a mechanical fault, police say.

Drivers may soon be able to use their mobile phones to ease frustrations caused by the apparent whims of traffic signals, if a research project by a Victoria University professor goes ahead.

The New Zealand Transport Agency was quick to remove human waste from a Wellington tunnel this morning

A stolen motorbike is believed to have been involved in a crash that left one person dead, and another seriously injured.