Road works have brought traffic to a standstill south of Whangarei as holidaymakers trickle home from their summer breaks, leaving some motorists seeing red.

The benefits of city life come at a cost. Ask any ex-Aucklander and you'll hear that things began looking up as the reflection of the city disappeared from the rear-view mirror.

Two people have been injured in a head-on collision near Waitomo.

A Whangarei man died yesterday when his motorbike and a car collided.

Deaths on New Zealand roads made up a "staggering" 41.7 per cent of all fatalities across Australasia over the holiday season.

A breakdown on Auckland’s Harbour Bridge caused temporary delays for motorists heading home this afternoon.

Motorists face slow journeys today as the country's busiest roads swell with holidaymakers returning from their summer breaks.

A young Auckland man is facing charges after he allegedly drove through a stop sign and hit a police car, causing a pile-up that wrote off three vehicles in Gisborne.

Drivers are being asked to make alternative arrangements as heavy traffic north of Auckland creates chaos and holds up holiday plans.

A 50-year-old woman was flown to Rotorua Hospital with serious injuries after a car crashed into a power pole yesterday at 5.45pm.

With the annual summer exodus to the beach about to begin, motorists are being warned to take care while driving this festive season.

A series of nasty crashes in the lead-up to Christmas have left one person dead and a number of others seriously injured.

Police have named a man who died following an alleged road-rage incident in Christchurch last month.

It's not revolutionary, writes Brian Rudman, but my solution post-weekend traffic hell is cheap and quick. Just clean up faster after a major crash and get us moving again.

ANZ's heavy traffic index fell 2.9 per cent last month, seasonally adjusted, reversing most of its gains over September and October.

A man has died in Christchurch Hospital this morning after he suffered a head injury during a dispute with another motorist in the city last month.

John Key has ruled out an earlier construction date for a second harbour crossing in response to huge traffic jams which brought Auckland roads to a standstill on Saturday.

City leaders question why a crash on the harbour bridge brought Auckland to a standstill. We look at the options for easing congestion if it happened again.

Brisbane was in clean-up mode yesterday after a supercell storm injured 39 people, cut power to 100,000 homes and caused damage likely to reach $250 million.

A motorist caught driving at 177 km/h in Otago was one of more than 200 infringements police issued over a four-day blitz in the lead-up to Christmas.

A slab of frozen sausages and a mercy dash through peak-hour traffic on Auckland's motorways in a police car saved the day after a man severed his finger while using a bench saw.

A man has been charged in relation to the death of a woman who was hit by a car on a Taranaki highway in August as she removed metal barriers from the road.