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Boy star: 'I struggle to brush my teeth'

Watch: Five months after a crash in which he and his best mate were seriously injured, James Rolleston still struggles to do simple things.

'The smell, the touch, the feelings'

Morgan Tait talks to emergency staff about crashes in which people are injured and sometimes killed.

A smile and a wave before road tragedy

Stephanie Batchelor remembers the last time she saw her father - walking to the car in which he would die.

Blue line thins from the highways

There could be up to 111 fewer police on New Zealand roads this summer.

Relief as road south of Kaikoura reopened

Transport Minister Simon Bridges officially reopens the road south of Kaikoura.

The best response to a parking fine ever

A student may not have pleaded his case out of a parking fine, but he has certainly won the support from social media for his hilarious efforts.

Buses against Manukau relocation

Bus operators are opposing a proposal to move the inter city terminal from Auckland CBD to Manukau

Inter-city buses won't go in to city

A proposal to move Auckland's intercity bus depot from the CBD to Manukau has enraged a public transport users' organisation.

Former employee: 'Uber is spying on you'

A former forensic investigator for Uber claims people's personal information is not safe despite assurances people are protected from spying.

Southern motorway congestion easing

The congestion on the two main routes into and out of Auckland is beginning to ease after the motorways were gridlocked earlier this evening.

Construction sector under quake pressure

Last week's earthquake is likely to put considerable extra pressure on the nation's already stretched construction sector, says ASB chief economist Nick Tuffley.

Kaikoura's Inland Rd may reopen tomorrow

Canterbury Civil Defence hopes to reopen one lane of the Inland Rd into Kaikoura tomorrow afternoon.

Tour new $2.4b Auckland motorway

WATCH: Take a virtual tour of Auckland's billion-dollar motorway expansion known as the Western Ring Route.

Watch: Video shows how Western Ring Route will make travel easier

The NZ Transport Agency has released a new animation showing how the Western Ring Route will make it easier to travel through and around Auckland and the upper North Island.

Route out of action six months at least

The earthquake-shattered main road linking Picton and Christchurch will "definitely" be closed for at least the next six months, the Transport Minister says.

Free public transport comes to Kaikoura

A free public transport service will roll out tomorrow in Kaikoura to help rural residents get to town.

Q&A: Why have there been so many landslides?

Why have there been so many landslides after this earthquake? Could we have known this would happen? Experts shed some light on Kaikoura's devastation.

Landslides: Engineers face 'unprecedented' task

Geotechnical engineers face an "unprecedented" challenge in tackling the many large landslides that have blocked quake-damaged Kaikoura's coastal State Highway 1.