Traffic & Crashes

Car hits bus stop at Te Puna

A car has collided with a bus stop near Te Puna early this evening. Police report that they were notified at 5.17pm of a collision involving a car and a bus... Read More

Serious crash on SH1 near Cambridge

Emergency services are responding to a serious two-vehicle collision on Tirau Road - State Highway 1 - near Cambridge this afternoon. Police were notified of... Read More

Half of Coromandel inaccessible - Civil defence

Flooding in the Coromandel Peninsula has eased overnight but several roads remain closed and farms are still under water. The region took a battering yesterday,... Read More

Judith Collins announces infrastructure plan

An eye-watering $31 billion is the price tag National has put on the infrastructure upgrade required to fix the country's transport network and Auckland and... Read More

Roading and weather update for the Coromandel

The state highway network in the Coromandel is still cut in several places as a result of slips or flooding from heavy rain and high winds. A heavy rain warning... Read More

Night works across Bay Link project site next week

Night works will take place across the Bay Link site over the next week. From Monday, July 20, to Thursday, July 23, service ducts will be installed on State... Read More

Input called for on Pilot Bay traffic trial

Tauranga City Council is calling on community members to register their interest in a new Mount Maunganui trial, named ‘Innovating Streets at the Mount'. The... Read More

Traffic complicating storm management

Roading contractors are frustrated at the huge volumes of traffic still on the roads and not heeding the warnings to avoid travel today if at all possible, says... Read More

State highway reopens after storm lashes

UPDATED 1.30pm State Highway 2 north of Paeroa has reopened this afternoon. It had been closed after a roof came down in the winds and took out powerlines at... Read More

Fatality confirmed in SH36 crash

Police can confirm one person has died following a two-vehicle collision on State Highway 36, between Tauranga and Rotorua. Police were alerted to the crash between... Read More

Unmarked vehicles to help hunt down risky driving

With people are still dying on New Zealand roads, police want to reduce the loss of life and the harm caused to people involved in crashes. 'A new fleet of... Read More

BOP highway open after serious crash

UPDATE: State Highway 36 is now opened following a serious two-vehicle crash in the Pyes Pa area. NZTA says the highway had been closed between Pyes Pa Road and... Read More