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Canterbury lawyers expect to be swamped with employment, insurance and tenancy cases; D-Day for Wellington's child cancer service; construction site becomes focus of Carmen Thomas inquiry.

The southbound lanes of the southern motorway in Auckland are open again after a major upgrade on the Newmarket viaduct was completed ahead of schedule.

The Transport Agency says there will be major traffic delays in central Auckland this weekend if people don't listen to warnings to stay away during the closure of part of State Highway 1.

Auckland radiographers are set to strike for three days from Friday after last-minute talks with their district health board employers failed. Audio

The Transport Agency is standing by its decision to close part of State Highway 1 in Auckland this weekend, saying it hopes disruption will be kept to a manageable level.

The receiver of one of Auckland's top hotels says belligerence by owners of the complex's rooms has cost 99 staff their jobs.

Nearly two-thirds of rooms at a five-star Auckland hotel are closing, with the loss of nearly 100 jobs.

A South Auckland school for troubled young people is to close next year. Audio

Businesses in Newmarket - one of the busiest shopping districts in Auckland - say trading will be restricted on Father's Day when the Newmarket viaduct is closed. They say it could not happen at a…

Strike action by radiographers has forced the cancellation of hundreds of operations next week at Auckland City hospital and Starship Children's hospital.

There will be huge disruption to traffic in Auckland on the first weekend of September as one of the country's busiest sections of motorway is closed for construction work.

Fiji's interim Prime Minister says media outlets and the business community have responded positively to the media decree. There's been criticism that the decree's requirement that foreign ownership…

The armed offenders squad was called out in east Auckland on Tuesday causing the closure of part of a major road.

Parts of the Auckland region, Coromandel, Waikato and Bay of Plenty were hit by extensive flooding today. Whakatane has been hit particularly hard. Audio

Regional leaders are urging the Government to retain little-used rail lines that are under threat. Audio

The closure of airspace in the Netherlands and southeast Britain due to volcanic ash from Iceland will cause the cancellation of about 1,000 flights.

The humble cork may soon be phased out altogether in the wine industry, with some winemakers moving to replace it on bottles of sparkling wine.

Major roads will be closed and suburbs locked down in Auckland as Rugby World Cup organisers push fans out of their cars and on to public transport during next year's tournament.

After almost a week of paralysis caused by ash from a volcanic eruption in Iceland, European skies are slowly re-opening to flights. Audio

Passengers stranded in transit points en route to London are being flown back to New Zealand, as volcanic ash continues to keep most of Europe's major airports closed.

Hundreds of thousands of travellers worldwide are stranded as hundreds of flights to Europe are cancelled due to a volcanic ash cloud. Audio

David Bain's compensation claim; leaky homes a $2bn tax windfall; residents win Christchurch pool fight; Dunedin cycle lanes 'a danger'.

Two tonnes of watermelons that caused the closure of part of Auckland's southern motorway have been cleared from the road.