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Resurfacing of State Highway 6/Fitzherbert Street/Ruatapu Road through the heart of Hokitika from this weekend may mean some disruption for road users and residents over the week that follows.

Scheduled to happen from 6pm to 6am daily, from Sunday 15 February to Saturday 21 February, the work will take place on SH6/Fitzherbert Street/Ruatapu Road from the north side of Richards Drive through to the Hokitika River Bridge. It will mean delays for road users on SH6 of up to 20 minutes while bitumen is being sprayed. Howev...

According to Transporting New Zealand - While plans are afoot in NZ to introduce universal RUC for all vehicles, Iceland has become the first country to do so, implementing universal RUC on 1 January 2026. The country announced its intention to move to universal RUC just 5 years ago.

What’s more, it’s a manual-based RUC system with no telematics, instead vehicle owners being billed monthly based on odometer readings lodged via an app or website, or estimates based on previous readings or the average mileage by vehicle ...

A major investment into Greymouth and Westport ports will boost coastal shipping and stimulate economic growth across the West Coast, Associate Transport and South Island Minister James Meager says.

The $5.3 million funding comprises of $4.3m for upgrades to the Port of Greymouth, and $1m for a regional safety programme to be shared with Westport Port.

Crown funding stems from the Coastal Shipping Resilience Fund, with the Grey District and West Coast Regional Councils co-investing an additional $671,200 for both...

IVECO continues to affirm its role in sustainable transport with another major international achievement for the third consecutive year. After the eDaily in 2024 and the Eurocargo CNG in 2025, the biomethane‑powered IVECO S‑Way LNG has now been crowned ‘Sustainable Truck of the Year’ in the Tractor category, confirming the brand’s ability to set the pace of innovation in heavy‑duty transport.

Established in 2016 by Italian industry magazine Vado e Torno, the Sustainable Truck of the Year awards are assigned annually by...

New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) is urging motorists in Auckland to plan ahead and expect delays with an extended 14-hour full closure of the Southern Motorway (SH1) between Papakura and Drury this weekend from 7.30pm Saturday night (14 February) to 9.30am Sunday morning.

The closure is needed to allow for the demolition of the Bremner Road bridge over SH1 as part of the SH1 Papakura to Drury project - one of the Government’s Roads of Regional Significance intended to get our cities moving, save lives an...

Those of us trying to enjoy a holiday in the upper North Island mid-Jan could be forgiven for thinking that we were experiencing Cyclone Gabrielle-level rainfall again.  In fact, you weren’t far wrong. During Gabrielle in 2023, Northland recorded 342mm over a seven-day period. 

And the rainfall this year? Northland was hit with between 300-350mm, but this time in only 48 hours. Tauranga was hit with 274mm in one day, its wettest day ever recorded, a month’s worth of rain. And East Cape was hit with a major de...