Taxis in large towns and cities will be fitted out with security cameras from next year in an effort to improve safety, but the cost of installing them will fall with companies and drivers.

A woman who died after rolling her quad-bike was an experienced rider who appeared to have been doing everything right, police say.

Bus drivers say Auckland City's tough bus-lane enforcement regime is forcing motorists to cut them off with sudden turns.

A hypersonic passenger jet has entered its second phase of tests, bringing trips of less than five hours between Australasia and Europe closer.

National MPs might be allowed a conscience vote on a Labour Party bill that proposes lowering the drink driving blood alcohol limit, John Key says.

Personal transit pods could whisk travellers to and from Auckland airport, argues designer.

Property left behind by Qantas passengers - including phones and computers - is regularly auctioned off to airline staff.

A helicopter pilot was sending and receiving text messages in the minutes prior to being killed in a crash, a report says.

VIPs other than heads of state can expect to walk to Eden Park like most other Rugby World Cup spectators.

Almost $100 would be cut off a return airfare to Australia under one airline's plan to simplify transtasman travel.

Super City mayoral hopefuls have promised everything from fewer liquor shops to a green waste curbside collection in the first Super City debate at Auckland’s Unitec tonight.

Transport Minister Steven Joyce has given the go-ahead to a half-billion-dollar, 23km toll road east of Tauranga.

Auckland City is imposing thousands of times more fines than Manukau on drivers illegally using bus lanes.

Plans for standing passengers on European air routes are unlikely to be tried by Jetstar and Air New Zealand.