Phil Pennington

Health board investigators have yet to release their findings months after undertaking an inquiry into allegations of abuse and neglect at a Lower Hutt resthome.

The oil refinery in Northland has run prohibited training exercises using thousands of litres of firefighting foam containing chemicals linked to cancers.

Newly released documents show officials believed Rio Tinto wanted to sideline the clean-up of Tiwai Point aluminium smelter.

Plans to close NZ's only oil refinery may leave country exposed to global uncertainty, experts are warning.

The Defence Ministry is years overdue for a legally-required audit of how the military is controlling dangerous materials such as rocket fuel and tonnes of old ammunition.

Police computer systems have been ill-prepared to cope with a disaster like a major hack.

The government has been told Southland could start producing green hydrogen as early as 2023, documents show.

The Education Ministry is not counting how many school buildings are meeting a key earthquake goal.

Truck drivers' fatigue and mental and physical health has emerged as a "serious concern" in a study on what might be increasing risks on the road.

A Palmerston North coachbuilder who helped raise alarm over truck cab cutouts warns he is finding motorhome cabs that are a threat to road safety.

Motorhomes and horse trucks are being forced off the road under rule changes by the transport agency Waka Kotahi.

A Kāpiti district councillor is warning residents have lost control of their rubbish, with tonnes of it ending up in a controversial landfill.

A deal to shut the controversial Levin rubbish dump, located near one of the country's most polluted lakes, is floundering.

MBIE is juggling two reports on Marsden Point's handling of the country's energy supplies that seem to lay out opposing views - but the ministry denies they are contradictory.

The government's first-ever plan for upgrading hundreds of unfit - and sometimes unsafe - hospital facilities is encountering a lot of delays.

The SIS is not seeking to have district health boards included in a programme where it sets out what agencies must do to cope with information security threats.

Only one out of more than 150 buildings used by the Ministry of Social Development nationwide needs earthquake upgrades.

The Transport Agency has backed down on demanding extra checks on truck brakes.

A researcher is worried the proliferation of crime-fighting computer algorithms will only make ingrained police bias against Māori worse.

Police were developing a high-tech tool to predict motorists' likelihood of getting into serious trouble, according to its first report on safe use of computer algorithms.

Many government departments are expanding rapidly, raising fears they will suck staff away from private businesses.

The country's district health boards are refusing to release reviews done of their cyber security systems, seven weeks after the Waikato DHB was struck by ransomware attackers.

The government offered to pay millions of dollars to Rio Tinto just months after promising in the election campaign it would not give a direct subsidy.