Work begins on the 2.5 billion dollar Auckland City Rail Link - we talk to Len Brown about what it means and an insiders view on the Johnny Depp / Amber Heard break up.

It's Auckland's biggest new tower and shopping centre - and Commercial Bay says H & M and HSBC will be tenants.

Latin America is Uber's fastest-growing region.

Tomorrow ground will be broken on the biggest construction project New Zealand has ever seen.

A person has been struck by a train in Auckland for the second time today.

People heading south from Auckland city should expect major delays after a truck broke down in the centrelane of the Southern Motorway.

New Zealand businesses, like those in Australia, are becoming accustomed to taking Uber.

Approaching the Penrose overbridge, there are at least four places where height indicators set off an alarm, which activates the first warning sign.

Northwest Aucklanders are spending much of day stuck in congestion yet there's a perfectly good railway, locomotives and stations just gathering dust.

For the Aucklanders stuck in rush-hour traffic wondering what's in the Budget for them, the answer is not a lot.

Dennis the gantry has done its dash with helping to construct the interchange on the Waterview project.

Grey Power says forcing pensioners to fork out for a new bus card to use free public transport is "cruel".

Auckland's trains are now running to schedule after an earlier fault caused delays.

Controversy erupted yesterday over research into a new Waitemata Harbour crossing, with public transport advocates claiming it won't include rail.

Motorists will be pleased to know more than 58 per cent of roadworks on the nation's highways are finished early.

There are a couple of issues here. Well, three, really. The streetlights are being upgraded to more cost-efficient and safer light-emitting diodes (LEDs).

Two cars collided in Otara about 5.19pm and a fire was extinguished at the scene.

What can the Budget 2016 do for our schools, housing, health and transport?

One man thinks he's found the solution to a dreaded pinchpoint for traffic heading north of Auckland - bulldoze the lights and put in two roundabouts.

"Serious systematic failures" in used-car market, says regulator.

Auckland Transport is joining business giants Fonterra, Air NZ, KPMG, Microsoft and Hewlett Packard at the VXV Precinct on the Auckland waterfront.

The Mt Wellington bridges are just two of the bottlenecks on the motorway system. Is there any plan in the near future to build an extra lane?

A man drives into a bridge and a city grinds to a halt. Such is the impact of a crash on Auckland's vulnerable motorway system.

AT has plans to improve connections for people walking and cycling by providing a shared path along Mt Wellington Highway adjacent to Sylvia Park.

Auckland transport officials are being told to front up and tackle the dire congestion which is driving people out of their own city.

Auckland urgently needs to revise its transport priorities and should build a giant tunnel from the CBD to Panmure, says an infrastructure lobby group.

People are being driven out of New Zealand's biggest city by traffic congestion problems, with many saying their quality of life is being eroded.

COMMENT: There is no doubt the road layout in and around Hill St at Warkworth is one of the most challenging and frustrating journeys anywhere in the region.

In general, the speed limit for cars on main rural roads and motorways is 100km/h, and 50km/h on urban roads, unless signs say otherwise.