Phil Pennington

Medical imaging services at Hawke's Bay Hospital were so fraught doctors had to take stopgap measures while an investigation was ongoing.

A damning report Te Whatu Ora kept hidden for months using whistleblowing laws has finally been released.

The only substantial document firefighters had about landslide risks prior to the fatal Muriwai slip in February was a 10-year-old manual from Sweden.

The Ministry of Social Development has discovered it is failing to pay almost half of beneficiaries the right amount. Audio

Analysis: A big shake-up in how hospitals are built allows for private sector investment, but just how - and how much - remains in question.

The government has missed yet another deadline for replacing the tangled Holidays Act.

Analysis - BlackRock is setting up a $2 billion fund with the government to invest in green energy - but what is BlackRock?

Auckland's uncertainty over tunnels and roads, and how to pay for them, now extend to public transport ticketing.

Top judges have been meeting around the country with lawyers about counsel feeling stressed and overwhelmed by the "immense workload pressure".

Analysis of a massive slip that split a Coromandel highway shows the road design of decades ago was not up to extreme weather in the current climate.

IT systems so old and complex they struggle to pay almost half of beneficiaries properly are to be overhauled in a $2 billion-plus makeover by the Ministry of Social Development.

The system in Australia and New Zealand networks thousands of cameras run by an Auckland company, Auror, which aims to combat retail crime.

Hawke's Bay has a hospital with an overcrowded ED, ICU that is not fit for purpose and a scanning department that just lost its international accreditation.

A stocktake of the Cook Strait ferries has found the Kaitaki had a lot of old parts in its engines when one blew out, casting the ship with 900 people adrift off the rocky south coast of Wellington in…

Waka Kotahi insists the country's newest road is built to last despite a major slip, but a geotechnical engineer warns the gullies in the area all look unstable and landslides are a normal occurrence.

加拿大华裔商人龚晓华涉在中国传销并在新西兰洗钱，新中两国联合调查结果已出。

Fire and Emergency began its first training of firefighters for flood rescues following Cyclone Gabrielle.

The Auckland Anniversary floods have reactivated a landslide that now threatens a brand new $880m motorway north of the city.

The government promoted intensive housing, despite the minister of housing receiving no advice on the higher fire risks. Audio

Te Whatu Ora has confirmed just 70 percent of patients are getting their first appointment within a month, not the 90 percent it previously told RNZ.

The levels detected in a new GNS study in groundwater and streams around Pukekohe and Bombay are eight times the 'national bottom line' in rivers.

Letters to cancer patients in the far south warning of delays in being seen have been sent out by Health NZ, shortly before it claimed it was seeing most of them on time.

New Zealand is giving $38 million to China over a Canadian-Chinese businessman who laundered millions here for years, then last month tried to become mayor of Toronto.

Dunedin Hospital has been losing ground in key ways on cancer services as it approaches a deadline to prove it is doing better, but health authorities say the services are well supported. Audio

An external review of Fire and Emergency's training of volunteer firefighters has found the process has many gaps and weaknesses.