Smith was quite sensitive last night when I referred to the new work-related travel perk as a 'perk'. He doesn't think it is a perk. I think it is.

The Speaker has finally sounded the death knell on travel perks after almost 40 years of MPs enjoying taxpayer-subsidised flights for their private international trips and holidays.

Adri Noom has been told the proposed Puhoi-to-Wellsford highway route runs right through his house near Warkworth.

An injured cyclist was given an angry lecture by the driver who forced him off the road.

Going from earthworks contractor to helicopter maker may seem an unlikely career change.

Almost three-quarters of drink driving deaths are caused by recidivist drink-drivers.

A new road safety campaign is appealing to young male drivers to 'slow down and stay in mantrol', in an attempt to reduce NZ's road toll.

Road workers were shocked when they saw children playing on a motorway overpass in South Auckland last Thursday.

Airlines flying into New Zealand look to be bucking a trend that has seen many Northern Hemisphere carriers reducing the number of first-class seats on offer during the global recession.