KiwiRail's chief operating officer Todd Moyle is promising an investigation into a city-wide Auckland train services disruption today - the third similar shutdown this year and the second time this week. Commuters were stranded because the trains......

  The Government’s plan to prohibit smoking in cars with children is a step closer with the Smoke-free Environments (Prohibiting Smoking in Motor Vehicles Carrying Children) Amendment Bill due to be introduced to Parliament this week.   “These......

Auckland train services were interrupted morning due to a KiwiRail signalling issue - the second time this has happened in a week. Commuters were stranded because the trains had to stop while the problem was sorted out. Scheduled buses were accepting......

Attempts to suppress vital information connected to an alleged “negative culture” at Warkworth police station have failed. A document secured by Mahurangi Matters vindicates former Sergeant Bede Haughey and instead highlights failings in......

Auckland's mayor is calling for radical and urgent changes to the Building Act. Phil Goff wants a compulsory insurance or warranty scheme to pay for problems with building work such as leaky homes. Auckland ratepayers have had to pay $600 million......

Eight months after the shock news that a new regional landfill dump is being planned for the Dome Valley, Waste Management has lodged its formal resource consent applications with Auckland Council. The applications went in just days before local iwi......

Matakana Coast Tourism has decided to pull out of the Warkworth i-SITE, saying it has found the visitor’s centre too much of a financial drain. The decision comes almost exactly a year after MCT teamed up with the One Warkworth Business Association......

Extremists are becoming increasingly sophisticated at exploiting social media algorithms to indoctrinate unsuspecting internet users, warns a local IT expert. Ti Point’s Nat Torkington, who advised Jacinda Ardern at the Christchurch Call summit......

A Black Hawk from the United States has settled into its new home in the Bay of Plenty. The military helicopter has been spotted flying across the BOP as it headed to Whakatane, ready to haul logs and pylons. “After a few good years we now......

Auckland Transport is apologising for the suspension of train services across the city due to a signal failure. Signals failed at 11.15am, the agency said. "Train services across Auckland are currently suspended due to a signals outage,"......