Phil Pennington

New Zealand is now at Alert Level 3, which which reduces restrictions on businesses and schooling and will see hundreds of thousands more people out and about.

However we're still being asked to stay… Audio

 A Bill enabling the police and foreign security agencies to intercept private cellphone calls during the APEC summit is being amended to stop it from happening .

The Apec summit is set to go ahead… Audio

The secretive US data firm Palantir run by billionaire and New Zealand citizen Peter Thiel is in talks with the Government here about combating Covid-19.

Palantir has worked for spy agencies in the… Audio

The Health Ministry has been consulting with the state spy agency, the GCSB, about how best to trace people as it works to get its Covid-19 systems up to speed.

A tech industry leader says it's… Audio

The Prime Minister is promising stricter border controls after an epidemiologist warned that without urgent tightening of them, lockdown should not be lifted.

Jacinda Ardern says there is no evidence… Audio

An Auckland woman who caught Covid-19 from her daughter, has infected her boss, who then infected her husband - and all of them spent days trying to get tested but were either put off or refused.

The… Audio

An Auckland woman has spoken out about the nine days it took for her to get a Covid-19 test despite being sick and having a daughter who goes to Marist College - the centre of the country's biggest… Audio

More than 40 million masks are on the way to help protect frontline health workers after weeks of confusion and fear about the supply of Covid-19 equipment.

On top of that, up to 11 planes full of… Audio

A doctor given the task of scouring overheated global markets to find desperately needed ventilators for the coronavirus pandemic is now feeling relieved and happy.

Dr Andrew Stapleton says New… Audio

New Zealand's desperate hunt for more life-saving ventilators to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic has come up trumps, against the odds.

A doctor who is helping lead the foray into a world market gone mad… Audio

The Ministry of Health has surveyed intensive care units and says it can more than triple their capacity immediately.

However, the units themselves report widespread understaffing and workers have… Audio

Doctors at Whangarei Hospital are worried about the safety of some patients due to the poor state of the buildings.

Documents shared with Insight reveal all of Northland's public hospitals are in an… Audio

Insight - The state of many of the country's public hospital buildings is compromising medical care. For the first time there's been a national stocktake. Phil Pennington looks at what's wrong, and… Video, Audio

A New Zealander stuck at London's Heathrow airport amid the virus crisis, says bewildered passengers have been crying, getting angry and pushing their way into queues Haydn Read of Whakatane was in a… Audio

Northland's biggest trucking operator has accused the New Zealand Transport Agency of letting an employee wage a personal vendetta against him that's cost him millions of dollars.

Stan Semenoff says… Audio

Northland's biggest trucking operator is claiming a triumph over the New Zealand Transport Agency and is accusing it of allowing a personal campaign to be waged against him.

The NZTA has dropped its… Audio

The Auckland Council is pushing back at the Government's plans to get thousands of prefab homes built here to tackle the housing crisis.

It has sent government officials a video link to disastrous… Audio

Fire tests of cladding on multistorey buildings are being run in New Zealand for the first time in response to the Grenfell Tower disaster in London three years ago.

A purpose-built rig near Porirua… Audio

The government agency WorkSafe is promising to clamp down over 'hidden' deaths that have sent the tally of work-place fatalities rocketing.

The official count made in 2018 was 42 deaths.

That more… Audio

An immensely powerful new housing and development agency is already allegedly causing ructions, accused of poaching key staff from local councils.

Kainga Ora will combine the state house aims of the… Audio