Phil Pennington

A host of shortcomings has been pinpointed in an IT overhaul at Archives NZ that hugely disrupted public access to more than six million public records.

PR firms think political parties should have to disclose their use of artificial intelligence in campaign advertising, but advertisers are not so sure. Audio

Analysis - Hawke's Bay dodged a much worse cellphone and internet blackout in Cyclone Gabrielle when fuel supplies ran critically low, papers show. Audio

Lower Hutt mayor Campbell Barry says FENZ is trying to "spin their way through" concerns about resource shortages in the Wellington region.

MetLink says it was not aware of the cameras when it purchased the large digital billboards for Wellington train stations.

Spark's offer to swap $24 million it planned to spend on a 5G rollout came after towns were completely cut off following Cyclone Gabrielle. Audio

Analysis - When a dairy caught fire at the end at the end of my street in April, a fire engine came from a station across the Hutt River in Seaview, rather than just down the road.

Rathkeale College argued the sprinklers would cost so much it would jeopardise its whole project to upgrade the alarms and other fire protections.

Awanui says the "pragmatic and sensible outcome" is to not proceed with its proposal at this time.

Key parts of a government proposal to bring in stronger fire protection for infill housing were withdrawn just days before the fatal Loafers Lodge fire.

A 111 team leader and firefighters' union Wellington president say call-takers were short staffed the night of the fatal Loafers Lodge fire - and they're struggling with feeling they should have done…

If two of the country's largest fire trucks had got to the Loafers Lodge blaze, and sooner, they could have got more water on, a senior firefighter says .

They have been recording all the problems with a fire truck with a long ladder that has spent just 45 days in operation in almost three years.

Analysis - AI is developing at breakneck pace - but how much does it know about you personally? And has your labour and data helped train it? Video

A lack of onsite audits, enforcement and legality are areas councils are failing in when it comes to issuing thousands of building warrants of fitness.

A 32-metre ladder truck has hardly been on a job in more than two years, and not since it froze up at a Kilbirnie house fire in February 2022. Audio

Investigations are underway into what went wrong in evacuating Wellington's Loafers Lodge last night.

Analysis - Wairoa is years behind on some high-priority water supply projects, but the jobs it did put first paid off when Cyclone Gabrielle hit.

The discovery has shut down air filling at Auckland City fire station, and it has withdrawn all its breathing apparatus tanks.

The country's most powerful medical laboratory group, half owned by the government, is proposing to slash the medical lab workforce in the upper South Island.

Authorities knew for years that some trucks had a handbrake so sensitive it could be dislodged simply by shutting the cab door - in fact, since just after a man was crushed to death in 2010.

A report of the year-long investigation into breast cancer screening delays for thousands of women is due out from Te Whatu Ora later today, and RNZ has obtained an advance look.

Analysis - The revelation that KiwiRail put a 13-year-old rubber expansion joint into a ferry engine does not back up claims it made on Thursday about the quality of its audit regimes, writes Phil…

KiwiRail admits it had opportunities to avoid the chaos with trains in Wellington this week but missed them.

Delivery times for new and used cars have blown out by weeks or months in New Zealand as ships stack up off Australian ports.