Drivers in New Zealand must now leave at least 1.5 metres when they pass a cyclist, and they must give way to buses pulling out from stops on slower roads.…
A coroner has found the New Zealand Transport Agency knew a lane of State Highway 1 south of Timaru was in poor, slippery condition before a truck slid across the…
Fatigue cracks missed during an engine overhaul caused an Air New Zealand ATR72 turboprop to catch fire on approach to Wellington Airport, and the evacuation that followed took almost twice…
Auckland trains carried a record 528,007 passengers in the City Rail Link’s first week, up 62 per cent and beating a March 2019 record.
The Surron Light Bee 2 is on pre-order in New Zealand at $10,490 with stock due late 2026. What the 24kW electric dirt bike is and where you can legally…
In 1944 New Zealanders rode the trams 133 times a year each. A scroll through 160 years of official records shows how ships, trains, trams, cars and planes rose and…
An animated map of every railway line New Zealand opened since 1863 and every one it closed, from the 5,689 km peak of 1953 to the City Rail Link.
New GP college guidance says healthy older drivers should not face a cognitive screening test just because of their age, after a University of Auckland review found the tests do…
From sweeping floors at Rotorua Towing at 10 to running ACE Heavy Haulage, the story of a life in heavy recovery.
Four provincial rugby teams have run out in jerseys with a strip across the front that looks like a seatbelt, in a road safety push aimed at the men least…
Auckland’s City Rail Link opened today. Scroll the line side-on, from platforms below sea level at Waitematā to daylight at Maungawhau, with every station’s depth and the geology beneath the…
Buses could be running in dedicated peak hour lanes along Wellington’s waterfront by late 2027 after Greater Wellington Regional Council’s Public Transport Committee endorsed the business case for an $11…
Auckland’s City Rail Link carried its first passengers on Sunday morning, but the celebrations had barely started when a small fire at Waitematā station stopped trains running through the new…
The helicopter that crashed in Mt Aspiring National Park in May, killing pilot Tim Brown and hunting guide Sean Roach, fell about 30 metres down a mountainside after its main…
Documents released under the Official Information Act show how NZTA spotted suspect driving tests and why about 650 drivers have been told to sit again.
Tauranga City Council will add a lane, limit lines and fresh road markings at the Judea roundabout after 32 reported crashes since 2020. A resident whose fence has been hit…
The 18km rapid transit corridor along State Highway 16 has cleared consenting under the Fast-track Approvals Act, but the full build runs to 2039.
Fifteen live exercises, more than 1,400 volunteer passengers and 75 actors have tested how emergency crews would handle a fire 40 metres under central Auckland.
Diesel has risen 27.2 cents a litre since mid July, just as the official monthly figures reported a third straight fall. What that means for freight, farming, fishing and construction.
Mayors on both sides of the Awakino Gorge and the road freight industry are asking the government to spend $25 million turning a narrow back country gravel road into a…
Auckland Transport wants to add new bus lanes and transit lanes to three of the city’s busiest arterial roads, and it is asking the public to weigh in before the…
The Chatham Islands have a new front door, and from today travellers can reach it on a single ticket booked through Air New Zealand. Associate Regional Development Minister Mark Patterson…
Petrol hit a record price in 2026 but is it really dearer than in 2011? We adjust 22 years of MBIE weekly data for inflation to find out where every…
A new University of Auckland study has put hard numbers on something Wellington has been warned about for decades. If a magnitude 7.5 earthquake ruptures the Wellington Fault, the great…
The Awakino Gorge has closed again and again in 2026. Here is why the papa mudstone keeps failing and what the four day August closure is meant to fix.
Auckland’s City Rail Link will open to passengers on Sunday 13 September, ending a guessing game that has run for the best part of a year and setting a firm…
Not one of 535 licensed drivers got all 24 questions right and most could not clear 70 percent, prompting the AA to call for optional refreshers at licence renewal.
Scheduled passenger trains stopped at Drury and Paerata on Sunday for the first time since 1972, and KiwiRail has put the cost of the two stations at about $300 million.
State Highway 3 through the Awakino Gorge will close completely for four days later this month, the ninth time in 2026 that the main link between Taranaki and the Waikato…
A coroner has found that Lime removed and dismantled the e-scooter a 23 year old Auckland man fell from before police were able to inspect it, leaving permanent gaps in…