The High Court has quashed a businessman's $40 fine for stopping in a loading zone to deliver files to his office.

Auckland will issue a worldwide call for investors in an electric car-share scheme such as those in North American and European cities.

Auckland is awash with roadworks and one in 10 current projects is running behind schedule.

Tapping the talents of bright young things is a low-cost bus operator's tactic to stay ahead of the competition.

What is being done to fix the dangerous intersection at the bottom of the Bullock Track at Western Springs?

Four diverse Aucklanders were asked to try out a new '10-year budget calculator'.

A British holidaymaker who has been fined for ''grossly excessive speeding'', at a time when tourist drivers are under scrutiny, teaches driving skills to police officers.

Auckland Grey Power has joined youth lobby group Generation Zero's push to cut major road projects and prioritise public transport in Auckland Council's new 10-year budget.

Unconnected calls to *555 on Saturday night were because of ''unprecedented demand'', police say.

The railway tunnel will serve only a very small fraction of Auckland's population and at a huge cost.

An incensed Dunedin man took car keys from a tourist who had stopped to take photos on Otago Peninsula, causing eight vehicles to back up on the narrow road.

Questions have been raised about Precinct Properties' planned $550 million 35-level Auckland tower.

New Zealand is keeping a close watch on an initiative that will allow planes to be more easily found if they disappear like Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

Can you inquire to see what's happened to the little brass gable house that was situated on the edge of the Dominion Rd boundary of Potters Park?

A $2 motorway toll in Auckland will largely go to widen roads, not build better public transport and cycleways, a debate on transport issues was told last night.

Police are urging motorists not to take matters into their own hands, following the latest removal of car keys from drivers allegedly driving dangerously.

An on-duty taxi driver who blew a reading of more than four times the legal breath-alcohol limit told police he had "one Kingfisher beer".

The best thing that may be said about a 36-storey glass tower to rise on the site of Auckland's Downtown shopping centre is that it will provide tunnels for trains out of Britomart.

The father of a girl killed in a crash caused by a Dutch businessman says safety messages are not getting through to tourist drivers.

Auckland Airport is resisting pressure from a community group to soundproof homes under new flight paths north of Manukau Harbour.

Business leader Sir Stephen Tindall is making a last-gasp plea to Mayor Len Brown and councillors to halt further reclamation of the Waitemata Harbour for port use.

It has been a tragic summer on New Zealand roads. The Christmas-New Year road toll was the worst for 17 years, prompting soul-searching among the authorities.

Auckland Council and commercial landlord Precinct Properties have struck a deal to allow the City Rail Link tunnels to run beneath a $550 million, 36-level downtown office and shopping tower.

Forget the famed Trans-Siberian Railway - the world's longest rail journey now runs between Spain and China.

Tolls received full or partial backing from 53 per cent of those submissions and higher rates and fuel tax received 37 per cent support.

A fourth American has died after three members of his family were killed in a fatal collision with a truck in Waikato last week.