Auckland's "integrated" public transport cards, introduced in May with a $1 million marketing budget from the public purse, will have to be replaced because they are not compatible with a new system for trains, ferries and some bus companies.

Auckland wharfies are at loggerheads with their employer over the hours they work. The port company says rosters are inflexible, the union says proposed changes will ruin family life. Mathew Dearnaley reports on the standoff

Choose your lane early and stick with it - that's the advice to motorists braving Auckland's Victoria Park flyover when it opens tomorrow.

As the Herald reported this week, many national cycleway trails are open. But elsewhere progress is painfully slow. Kirsten Warner visits Hokianga to find out why