Phil Pennington

Medical specialists say there is little sign the one-off financial boost to fight Covid-19 will fix underfunded public health units.

They say the units need proper permanent resourcing but their… Audio

The location of some road crashes has been shifted hundreds of metres away from where they actually happened.

Waka Kotahi - the NZ Transport Agency says these are unintentional mistakes.

But a road… Audio

The Ministry of Education went against expert advice at a quake-damaged Christchurch school, hit spiralling costs, and was obstructive and misleading, documents show.

The ministry criticised the… Audio

Briefings to the Government say a key department had not identified critical services or tested staff ability to work from home as Covid-19 caused havoc earlier this year.

The briefings also say… Audio

Complaints of physical and verbal abuse, neglect and intimidation of residents and staff are being investigated at a Lower Hutt rest home.

The District Health Board is looking into five complaints at… Audio

The Government has done a deal over facial recognition technology that throws access to it wide open.

The Internal Affairs Department has signed a master agreement with a leading global biometrics… Audio

The Transport Agency knew that maintenance on Auckland Harbour Bridge had contaminated land next to houses but decided not to tell local people.

It found high and rising levels of lead, zinc and a… Audio

The head of an authorised seatbelt repair firm says he's seen some dangerous seatbelt repairs. The Transport Agency has rushed in more powers to catch out dodgy seatbelt repairs.

Autosafe of… Audio

Transport Agency documents about two state highway viaducts show a leading engineering firm warned of a "critical design risk".

It included possible failure of the structures.

But the agency says… Audio

One of the country's most expensive stretches of new highway just got more costly - and further delayed - by buried pumice that engineers failed to spot.

The two kilometre stretch of the Bayfair to… Audio

New services for better emergency and acute care of children at Christchurch Hospital will not open because there's no money to staff them.

The Canterbury DHB is struggling with a $180 million… Audio

Mask are now mandatory on buses and trains around the country.

RNZ reporter Phil Pennington is commuting into Wellington by train.

He speaks to Corin Dann. Audio

The police are quietly setting up an $8 million facial recognition system that can take a live feed from CCTV cameras and identify people from it.

This would push New Zealand into new territory for… Audio

A global giant at the centre of controversies over facial recognition technology in the US and UK, is working closely with the New Zealand Government.

The Tokyo-based NEC is updating the country's… Audio

The Transport Agency faced with broken highways, has staked a billion dollars on a roadbuilding method that is unproven and is difficult to get right.

The technique is being rolled out in Waikato at… Audio

The Transport Agency has problems with two new bridges being built on the Auckland Northern Corridor highway project.

That's partly due to efforts to speed up construction after a five-week Covid-19… Audio

The government has put the kaibosh on hopes hospital workers owed three quarters of $1 billion could get an interim payout early.

Workers will have to wait until into next year or even longer, seven… Audio

A leading sleep research centre is facing changes that could undermine its worldwide status.

Massey University wants to absorb the Sleep Wake centre into another department due to a shortfall in… Audio

Police attempts to block a man who 'annoyed and frustrated' them from running a security company, has been over-ruled by a district court judge.

The judge says the objections were based solely on… Audio

A California family have an underwater drone ready to go to look for the body of their son, drowned when a skydiving jump went wrong over a South Island lake.

But the police won't let them.

RNZ's… Audio