Three people killed in a collision with a logging truck yesterday have been confirmed as American citizens, police say.

Unsecured seating is being blamed for the large number of passengers injured when an Auckland ferry hit Devonport wharf yesterday, jolting many to the floor.

Three people who died in a collision with a logging truck in south Waikato yesterday were not believed to have been wearing seatbelts at the time.

Sunset-chasers and their cars have been locked in Auckland's Mt Eden Domain again - despite a council apology last month to people stranded there by an earlier closing time.

Tony Holman writes: The secretive assets sales project highlights the anti-people, anti-democratic nature of the local government structure foisted upon the people of Auckland.

On Thursday I got the first Business Class upgrade of my life.

Waiheke Island’s new ferry operator says it cannot keep offering pensioners free passage without sharing a subsidy the Government pays its competitors.

Image-conscious Aucklanders appear far more likely to hire cars of their dreams than residents of other regions, according to a new survey.

Images of a man car-surfing on Auckland's Harbour Bridge have emerged as an Alexandra man remains in a critical condition after falling from a van travelling at high speed in Central Otago.

Two teenagers choked a taxi driver with wire before throwing him out of the taxi in northeast Queensland.

Auckland public transport passengers have lost about $35,000 in credit on electronic Hop cards disabled for repeated failures to tag off at the end of trips.

No city in the world has managed to pave its way out of congestion. Auckland will not be the first to succeed but it may be the last to try, writes Mark Bracey.

If light rail were to run through the veins of inner Auckland again, it would follow a track back in time.

This week Mayor Len Brown was caught asleep at the wheel. Neither he nor his retainers were aware, until alerted by the media, that a resolution was about to go before councillors.

Motorists have been hammered by three days of petrol price rises in the lead-up to the long weekend, prompting criticism by the AA of "trigger-happy" oil companies.

Motorists are urged to take care on the busy roads this holiday weekend, particularly after a spate of road crashes yesterday thought to be caused by wet conditions.

A German woman on holiday in New Zealand to visit her daughter was killed in a crash in Matakana, north of Auckland, yesterday.

New signs peppering streets around Auckland's Dominion Rd may have to be "re-skinned" to make them easier for motorists to read, the city's transport authority admits.

If a toll road is impacted with road works and there are delays incurred for road users, shouldn't the toll takers simply waive the toll?

Can you tell me if mobility scooters are permitted to drive on the roads like cars?

A man who refused to pay a $65 "breach" notice from a parking site operator says motorists, who are receiving them for being as little as five minutes over, should fight too.

Auckland Mayor Len Brown opposes a plan to stop councillors serving as board members on Auckland Transport.

EXCLUSIVE: Auckland bureaucrats have come up with a plan to dump councillors from sitting on the board of Auckland Transport.

Data visualisation shows the aggregate travel patterns created by over 9.5 million rail trips made by passengers using HOP cards between July 2013 and June 2014.

Almost $9 million in parking and traffic fines has gone unpaid in Auckland in the past year, and the worst offender owes nearly $38k.

Trams could be heading into Auckland city again, almost 60 years after the original tracks were torn up.

Auckland mayor is struggling to put together a budget that will accommodate his magnificent obsession, the $2.5b underground City Rail Link, Brian Rudman writes.