Stories by Phil Pennington

The police say they probably would not have caused a mistrial at a murder trial if they had had High Court guidelines.

Wellington ratepayers can breathe a sigh of relief that the central library rebuild is not going the way of the Town Hall upgrade.

Urgent inspections have taken place at Rotorua boarding houses after one was evacuated, and later shut down.

Te Whatu Ora is months late in changing the pay rates for nurses who are now taking legal action seeking compensation.

Urban Search and Rescue teams are relying on just three trucks, two of them so old they keep breaking down and pose risks because they lack basic stability control.

The country's fleet of specialist search and rescue vehicles is so bad that the rescuers have begun rebelling.

The Ministry of Justice has been hiring more and more contractors, some costing thousands of dollars a day.

A landmark Wellington motorway once lauded for its green credentials is being investigated for its impact on streams, native fish and one of the country's most sensitive inlets.

A Māori oversight group expects instances of racial bias to come through in a new government-run identification platform - but says improvements will be made.

Whānau of a toddler killed in Southland say heavy court suppressions have left the boy "invisible".

A US contractor has signalled it is running behind time on its half-billion-dollar New Zealand transport project.

A coroner's report into the death of a toddler shows government agencies were explicitly warned the boy's killer was violent and a risk to children.

A recent MSD report calls the level of racial bias in the technology "unknown", "unconfirmed" and "untested".

The nationwide public health system set up last year to address weaknesses exposed by Covid-19 is struggling, according to a review, with such confusion that in one case 10 different groups were doing…

An official gauge of how the country's health reforms are going has found huge gaps of people, planning and resources. Audio

An Immigration NZ team targeting mass arrivals by asylum-seekers paid for spyware for two years without using it.

Four years on from the terrorist attacks that sparked the work, the country still lacks a system the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the attacks urged be set up.

Speed and alcohol use were major factors in accidents involving e-scooters, the report found.

Police have dropped the replacement of a communications system vital to deploying patrol cars and fire trucks. Audio

由爱尔兰科技公司承接的这一新西兰政府项目识别率堪忧，原计划明年大规模投入使用的系统预计还将延期交付。

The Identity Check system is aimed at becoming the primary way New Zealanders verify who they are online for access to public and private services.

Officials admit they have been using facial recognition to identify people for years without knowing if it distorts results for Māori.

Many public sector agencies have lifted their spending on contractors and consultants by about 60 percent in real terms, on average, since pre-Covid-19 times.

The Environmental Protection Authority has no plans to do more tests, despite recommendations more be done.

Police are moving to cut the number of people remanded in custody, while acknowledging this will mean more offenders in the community.