The propeller missing from the Cook Strait ferry Aratere has been recovered by a remote-controlled underwater vehicle this afternoon.

More trains and buses will be running in Auckland when new drinking laws begin next week.

One of New Zealand's pre-eminent writers has filed a court application to stop the taking of her ancestral land for a national expressway.

Disgruntled taxi drivers have begun a hunger strike and rally at Auckland International Airport today.

There will be changes on Auckland's Northwestern Motorway today that will impact drivers heading east towards the city.

A painted cardboard train was paraded through central Wellington today in a push for a light rail system to be given the go-ahead.

Drivers in Auckland City yesterday did not appear to be paying attention to the summer speed threshold, with five drivers pulled over in about 30 minutes.

Bulldozing 500 affordable homes to make way for a $1b freight corridor through South Auckland has been ruled a 'non-starter' by Auckland mayor Len Brown.

Recently, the new traffic lights on the interchange at Lincoln Rd on the Northwestern Motorway were turned on. It's now taking up to 45 minutes to access the motorway from Universal Dr, compared to 15 minutes before.

A man who hit a jogger with his car, took her body and dumped it in a reserve 10km down the road, will spend at least the next 13 years behind bars.

All speed cameras across the country have been recalibrated with the new 4km/h speed tolerance as part of the police push to reduce summer road deaths.

Only once in all the times I've turned have I been given right of way.

Auckland bus drivers desperate for toilet breaks say over-zealous parking wardens are fining them for leaving their vehicles at bus stops while answering nature's call.

KiwiRail says it has found a temporary replacement for the Interislander ferry Aratere, which lost a propeller during a Cook Strait crossing earlier this month.

Len Brown wants his council to look more to public private partnership models to create new infrastructure, saying it could relieve the financial burden on ratepayers and taxpayers.

The propeller that fell off the Interisland ferry Aratere in Cook Strait has been found.

Auckland's new $100 million public transport ticketing system is being labelled "a dog" and a shambles by passengers upset at being over-charged or locked out of the system.

Disgruntled taxi drivers will consider a nationwide strike if their demands, which include raising the minimum price of fares, are not met by Auckland Airport next week.

The Auckland Council is revising down its public transport goals next year from 83 million trips to 78 million.

The trams are returning to Cathedral Square after an almost three-year absence following the February 2011 earthquake.

A man repeatedly charged double his bus fare is the latest disgruntled customer in Auckland Transport's new electronic payment system.

An enormous amount of work is going on at the foreshore near Onehunga, and I have read little about it.

The City Rail Link (CRL) is the key project in an integrated transport programme to keep Auckland moving as the city grows by more than 700,000 people during the next 30 years. courtesy Auckland Transport.

Auckland Transport has backed down over refusals to reimburse a woman who loaded more than $50 on a Hop bus card two days before the card became redundant.

The Govt has approved a fast-track consenting process for a $760m Auckland motorway that has yet to be given a start date.

Auckland Transport is acting like an Indonesian execution squad, refusing to give victims any prior warning of their appointed date with destiny, writes Brian Rudman.