Phil Pennington

The multimillion-dollar debate was taken off the table at a major firefighting conference in Christchurch last month.

A review has found the 'Auror' system boosts crime fighting, but there's been limited internal audit of how police are using it.

Thousands more theft reports are being loaded every month into police investigation systems that are already under stress.

RNZ in 2020 first exposed that police for years were wrongly collecting photos and fingerprints from the public, particularly young Māori.

Could it be that a solution to New Zealand's poor and dangerous record with machinery is in sight? Audio

Life-saving helicopter flights are being increasingly used by Fire and Emergency, but one of its top aviation roles is so vague it has been described as "fairy dust".

NZTA says it is testing the potential use for combating fraud by illegal garages issuing warrants of fitness. Audio

It had been working on them for several months.

A US army commander visiting NZ has praised how the US and NZ Defence Force are developing an integrated network, at the same time as the latest example of this integration comes to light. Audio

Manatū Taonga is going ahead with cutting the jobs of most of its historians.

The new US Space Force strategy for international partnership calls for partners to engage in missions, wargaming and joint planning. Audio

The deficit for the recently-ended financial year was expected to be $1.1 billion.

Meanwhile the government also wants to up its own game in supplying international markets with high-tech military systems.

The increased budget means troops can now move past being only partly equipped, says defence secretary Brook Barrington.

The organisations said "irreplaceable" expertise would be lost in order to make only modest savings.

The police union says officers getting body cameras for the first time will counter people doctoring phone footage of interactions.

An expert in warfare law says New Zealand might struggle to stay out of a US-Iran war if the Europeans get involved.

本地最新调查显示，新西兰同时将中国视为"朋友"和"威胁"。但本地学者表示，并不确定这是一种趋势还是短期波动。

Foreign Minister Winston Peters says critics of the government's foreign policy reset are ill-informed and shouting "impotently at clouds".

China is not interested in becoming "a new overlord", a researcher at a Beijing thinktank has told a conference in Wellington.

Ukraine's ambassador to New Zealand has called on China to use its leverage with Russia to help stop the war, criticising the stalled peace process as hollow. Audio

The ministry will set up a list of accredited contractors, after some substandard repairs previously.

Large retailers such as Briscoes, Bunnings and Mitre 10 support the use of facial recognition technology to combat repeat offenders but concerns continue over potential privacy breaches.

Professor Alan Tidwell believes the agreement will change, but never end.

The axe is hovering over historians and staff who create digital content used by schools and the public.