Transport

Airline Ratings has announced its safest airlines list for this year - Air New Zealand is at the top.

Under the program, passenger vehicles are charged US$9 during peak periods in Manhattan - fees are reduced by 75 percent at night.

It's the biggest land owner along the Desert Road, looking after 23,000 hectares of land, and says businesses will be "severely impacted". Audio

You might soon be paying another 10 cents per litre when you fuel up.

Extended month-long rail closures will not be required in Auckland once the city's rail networks have been modernised, says KiwiRail's chief infrastructure officer. Audio

Trips are going ahead but conditions will make them unpleasant, one operator says.

Transport NZ chief executive Dom Kalasih said his organisation will be holding NZTA to account, while local residents say there are pros and cons to the new detour.

A Wellington woman says she feels like she never wants to fly again after a six day ordeal that saw her flights home from Dallas cancelled repeatedly.

With the Desert Road now closed for two months, one mayor worries the North Island is one accident away from chaos. Audio

Buses are replacing trains while KiwiRail upgrades to prepare for City Rail Link. Audio

A major chunk of SH1 is shutting for major maintenance. Audio

Bluebridge's Strait Feronia ferry is back on track after engine issues left it circling off Wellington's south coast this afternoon amid four-metre swells.

Flight data and cockpit voice recorders on the crashed Jeju Air jet stopped recording about four minutes before the airliner hit a concrete structure, the country's transport ministry says.

The government is still considering replacement options after ditching Labour's iRex project citing a large cost blowout.