Focus: More miserable summer weather his North Island
Aotearoa is in for another weekend of severe thunderstorms and heavy rain, with motorway delays and power outages striking already. Video / NZ Herald
AdvertisementAdvertise with NZME.
Latest from Roads
Wairoa's request for extra road funding turned down
Waka Kotahi won't fund the last 5 per cent of roading costs required.
Coromandel Peninsula road reopens after crash
The road was closed so police could clear a crash which injured two people.
Letters: Jacinda Ardern, Census workers, Golriz Ghahraman, Ara Tūhono, Prince Harry, and privet
OPINION: Letters on John Roughan, Grant Robertson, freedom protests, and John Key.
NZ's pothole problem, empty building costs millions & death toll rises in Nepal plane crash | Focus Morning Bulletin: 16 January, 2023
Record complaints over the state of our roads, the Government’s multi-million dollar bill on an empty building and terrifying plane crash in Nepal in the latest New Zealand Herald headlines. Video / NZ Herald
Trapped residents to travel in convoy on storm-damaged East Coast highway
Today the transport agency will lead the first convoy between Tokomaru and Tolaga Bay.
New images of Pūhoi to Warkworth ‘holiday highway’ revealed
The drive will chop 11 minutes off the current route, Waka Kotahi says.
One dead and seven others injured in two South Island crashes
Four people were flown to hospital after a crash in North Otago.
Is this NZ's most notorious roundabout?
Residents say more needs to be done to the local roundabout, only months after an upgrade.
Letters: Prince Harry’s Afghan killing revelation 'makes no sense'
OPINION: Letters on New Zealand's detractors, the port and Covid cases.
Man dies in crash on Hastings bridge
The single-vehicle crash at 5pm occurred on Black Bridge.
Why don't we fix roads before we lower speed limits? The experts reply
"Improving road quality is happening, but is necessarily relatively slow.”
How speed limit reviews could affect your holiday journey
The Herald analyses the impact speed limit changes could have on journey times.
Revealed: How lower speed limits will affect long-distance travel times
Lower speed limits could slow productivity too, so where should safety balance lie?
Revealed: Killer state highway zone where speed limit could be cut by 40km/h
“You can hear the sirens go off with all the accidents, once a week or so."
Lower speed limits - and upgrades - ahead for 30% of NZ's state highways
Waka Kotahi's full plan covering speed limit and safety changes is expected this year.
Editorial: Is the drive to reduce speed limits the key to lowering road toll?
Editorial: Waka Kotahi has big plans for NZ roads, but will they be the panacea we need?
Holiday traffic: Delays from Wellsford to Auckland, drivers urged to plan ahead
Holidaymakers are advised to keep updated as traffic congestion builds in some areas.
Horror holiday road toll hits 14: Police plea for safer driving
Police are urging drivers to be safe on the roads as the holiday road toll climbs.
Taking risks: The shocking stats on who is more likely to die on our roads
Far more men than women are killed every year on New Zealand roads.
Holiday road toll rises to 16 after two pedestrians killed
Christmas-New Year period road toll increased to 14 after a crash in Rangiora.
'Looked exhausted': Warning after car crash that killed parents and left 3 kids orphans
Cindy Braddock & Jake Day died in crash not far from home after driving through night.
Holiday road toll rises to eight after two fatal crashes
SH63 is now closed near the Spray River Bridge.
Ports of Auckland boss Roger Gray: Supply chain 'balances on a knife edge'
Roger Gray: 'We don't deny that we’ve let New Zealand down.'
Watch: Flash flooding on Auckland's Southern Motorway
A motorist captured the results of the deluge of heavy rain on Auckland's Southern Motorway near Penrose. Video / Charles West
How to dodge the traffic on Boxing Day
Presents are unwrapped, leftovers are boxed up and thousands of Kiwis are heading home.
Severe thunderstorms to dampen Christmas for parts of NZ
Heavy rain and hail are expected in the Bay of Plenty, Taupō, Gisborne, and Hawke’s Bay.
Traffic held up on Auckland’s northern motorway following crash
Motorists are advised to expect delays.
Road to recovery
Waka Kotahi contractors have started a major nationwide roading repair and remediation project as a growing number of motorists describe the state of the roads as the “worst” they’ve ever been Video / Waka Kotahi
Tarseal peel-off - again: Dome Valley road surface lifts less than a week after repairs
Motorists on highway stretch north of Auckland are once again crawling amid road issues.
Early Christmas for drivers as new expressway set to open
The opening of the new road has come down to the wire.
Letters: Hard yards for seasonal workers
OPINION: Letters on income insurance, David Seymour, co-governance, and Ukraine.
Watch: State highway 'bleeds' under traffic
Motorist Laura Ward said the highway had been resealed three times in the last six months.