New Zealand sales of new commercial vehicles hit a record for April amid strong demand from tradespeople and farmers.

Work on up to 35 residential and commercial projects will need to be redone after faulty concrete was supplied and used in building work.

NZ's biggest listed company has revealed how one of its businesses made faulty and weak concrete and sent it out to many building sites, including the Waterview project.

Former Auckland Transport officials and the head of a project management firm face multiple corruption charges for alleged offences reaching back nine years.

Site enabling works on New Zealand's biggest new infrastructure project, Transmission Gully, begin this month.

Owners of a new generation mega cruise ship heading for New Zealand say they welcome plans by Ports of Auckland to extend its container wharves.

Ovation is still being built at a shipyard in Germany and when finished will be 348m long and 168,666 gross registered tonnes.

Several councillors have leapt to the defence of Ports of Auckland, the council-owned company facing public and political pressure to halt work on two new wharf extensions into the Waitemata Harbour.

Artists' impressions of Auckland's City Rail Link include a new underground station at Karangahape Rd built to resemble a stingray.

ANZ's Truckometer is signalling some slowdown in the pace of growth in the first three months of the year.

Buying a house on the city's outskirts can save Aucklanders up to $50,000 each year in mortgage repayments, despite the added commuting costs.

Jucy in Australia is half the size of its NZ operation but the company is growing the Australian business.

A new website allows consumers to predict the cost of a taxi fare, accurate to within about $4.

What people want from transport is to get from A to B as quickly, safely and cheaply as possible.

Heads could roll over Ports of Auckland expansion plans, according to a senior Auckland Council source.

Auckland Council has formally asked Ports of Auckland to halt construction of two massive wharf extensions.

Ports of Auckland is not ruling out a pause in construction on two massive wharf extensions into the Waitemata Harbour.

New Zealand has secured 10 new air service deals allowing links with countries ranging from Bahrain in the Middle East to Curacao in the Caribbean.

Popular pet food brands sold in New Zealand have been caught up in disturbing claims of slavery on the high seas.

Urban Auckland has taken the first legal steps to stop Ports of Auckland beginning construction on two massive wharf extensions next month.

Ports of Auckland is planning an offensive this week to sell its expansion plans to Aucklanders, using the carrot of releasing Captain Cook Wharf for public use.

The majority of Auckland councillors now want a rethink on the controversial proposed expansion of the port.

The protest was sparked by port company plans to begin building two massive extensions and Auckland Council voting to ease rules for further reclamation.

About 2000 people and more than a hundred boats gathered today to protest plans by Ports of Auckland to reclaim more of Waitemata Harbour.

Auckland's Waitemata Harbour has been "turned from a harbour into a river", by Ports of Auckland expansion, yachting great Chris Dickson says.

Over the past month, Ports of Auckland has made announcements about its intention to extend wharf structures out from Bledisloe Wharf.

Prominent business leaders, sailors, architects, musicians have signed an open letter demanding that Ports of Auckland 'stop stealing our harbour'.