Talkshow host Michael Laws has been taking heat from his radio colleagues for driving with an unrestrained child.

Michael Laws has complained about an officer he says misrepresented the circumstances around his receiving a ticket for having an unrestrained child in his car.

The outspoken Whanganui Mayor has been fined after being stopped for driving while there was an unrestrained child on the lap of his front passenger.

Police have charged a truck driver over the death of a cyclist who was hit by a truck only days after writing about aggressive Kiwi drivers.

A suspected drink-driver led police on a 100km chase along highways north of Auckland - as he weaved through traffic at speeds up to 170km/h.

A police officer who works in a serious crash unit is under investigation for alleged drink-driving after he was reported for backing into a parked car.

A cyclist was killed last night when he and a car collided on an East Auckland road - the latest in a series of serious cycling accidents.

A teenager who feared for the safety of his sister and her friend took his drink-driving mother's keys and a bottle of gin, then called police.

A woman who allegedly killed a grandmother after speeding from a police checkpoint had drunk about four vodka energy drinks over two hours, her father has said.

An Auckland speed camera has overtaken a notorious Wellington speed trap as the busiest in the country.

Herald inquiries reveal that police own only 12 fixed speed cameras, which are rotated among 56 boxes mounted on poles and power poles around NZ.