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.

One person died after a crash in Matakana and a school bus slid off the road in Manly as five incidents caused traffic chaos in the Auckland region yesterday.

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?

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

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.

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

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.

Tragedies such as the Carterton balloon crash and MH370 have influenced the creation of a "Watch List" designed to highlight air, sea and rail safety concerns.

Air Force has changed its procedures following a difficult landing in near white-out conditions in Antarctica with a plane low on fuel and carrying 130 people.

No, says Auckland Transport, they are not red light cameras. They are traffic management CCTV cameras.

In part four of the Herald series on how to make Auckland better, we look at the pros and cons of health-care in New Zealand's biggest city.

Air New Zealand is being investigated over possible misleading or deceptive conduct in the way it sells insurance with air fares.

In the third of our five-part Future Auckland series, we aim to stimulate debate.

Twenty or more minute queues for the women's loos at Laneway Festival in the blazing sun. Men could use larger portaloos, but women did not have that luxury.

People who live beside Auckland's Southern Motorway are subjected to air pollution at nearly double the level of those 130m further away, research shows.

An interactive map reveals the change in commuting patterns in New Zealand since 2001.

If trams are found to be compatible with cars on big city roads, and will carry more people more quickly, then the Auckland Council, Govt and ratepayers must seriously consider them.

Any new generation of Auckland trams would likely start from the waterfront and head up the Dominion Rd commuter spine via Queen St, says the city's transport head.

Household rates could rise by 7.6 per cent this year if the city adopts a motorway toll of $2 or a regional fuel tax to tackle the city's transport challenges.

Just because pohutukawa trees prosper in Auckland's coastal setting is not a reason to treat them as a weed and hack them down when they get in the way of a road builder.

Auckland could become a city of trams again, with light rail back on the drawing board to complement trains and buses.

Tree campaigners are vowing to go to court if Auckland's roading authority presses on with plans to chop down six 80-year-old pohutukawa.

More than 640 drivers were stung with fines during a 24-hour, 84-checkpoint police road safety blitz in central Auckland yesterday.

Difficulties for the start-up of the Uber passenger service have prompted an official review of New Zealand's regulations.

A review of taxi regulations has been launched following a complaint from new industry player Uber.