Crossing the road is among the most dangerous of everyday activities - and police say even the slightest loss of concentration could have disastrous, if not fatal, results.

Nearly half a million New Zealand drivers' licences are expired and thousands of motorists are apparently unaware they are breaking the law.

The Ministry of Education has admitted some school buses may not be suitable for transporting all wheelchair-bound pupils, after it was made aware of a parent's safety concerns.

Kiwi motorists are among the most likely to die on roads, despite having one of the more frequent road-testing regimes in the world, reports show.

Older Aucklanders fear widespread social harm from cutting back their free public transport entitlement, including to organisations relying heavily on their volunteering efforts.

Auckland ferry operator Sealink says trains are gobbling up too much public money, depriving the two-harbour city of superior water transport.

As you go into the main driveway by the community centre, there are quite obvious yellow dotted lines painted on the driveway on the left-hand side by the kerb.

Auckland Transport has quietly dropped a controversial feature of its $2.86 billion underground rail project.

No one seems to doubt Auckland will need another harbour crossing to the North Shore within a generation.

Angry parents in a small coastal town claim changes to a school bus route will put children's lives at risk.

More than 300,000 infringements were recorded in Auckland last year, an average of nearly 35 an hour and netting on average $773,203 a month.

We are keen recyclers and have friends who are too. We have different views on what paper can be recycled.

Auckland's Queens Wharf is too small for the new generation of bigger cruise ships and may need a $10 million top-up from ratepayers.

The troubled Interislander ferry Aratere has been taken out of service for a second day, disrupting the travel plans of hundreds more passengers.

North Shore leaders will this year ramp up calls for a new Waitemata Harbour traffic crossing, even though the Transport Agency does not believe one will be needed before 2030.

The report does not show, nor claim to show, that the line is viable, only that a wider view of the net costs and benefits to NZ arguably should be considered, writes Stephen Selwood.

Massive earthworks sprawling across parkland through two Auckland suburbs are a prelude to the country's largest transport project - the 4.8km Waterview connection.

As the NZ Transport Agency has repeatedly said over the Christmas and New Year period, anything we can do to make our roads safer is important.

An independent review has found flaws in KiwiRail's decision to close the Gisborne to Napier line and suggests the tonnage needed to keep the route viable can be achieved.

Traffic is backed up on Auckland’s Northwestern motorway after a collision between a truck and a car.

An independent report aimed at proving the economic viability of the Gisborne to Napier railway line is expected to be released to the public this week.

Two clip-on lanes of the Auckland Harbour Bridge have reopened following the completion of maintenance work that had closed them since Boxing Day.